5 tips for making the snazziest Rosh Hashanah cards
By Stacey Ilyse (Kveller via JTA) – Growing up, I remember getting cards in the mail for Rosh Hashanah. They were always the normal, generic,…
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Ben Kingsley carried a photo of Elie Wiesel with him while filming ‘Operation Finale’
By Naomi Pfefferman LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Ask Ben Kingsley about why he was keen to portray Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in the new film…
Why Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a cautionary tale for 21st-century Jews
By Charles Dunst Spoilers for “BlacKkKlansman” below. NEW YORK (JTA) — In 1965, two young Jewish men, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered along with black…
Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ play fair with its audience?
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — A critical consensus has formed around the hit documentary film “Three Identical Strangers,” which can be summarized in…
How an Orthodox cantor snagged a role on ‘Orange Is the New Black’
By Josefin Dolsten NEW YORK (JTA) — Cantor Philip Sherman gives me a call after having finished two circumcisions before noon on Tuesday. That’s a light day,…