Taboo-breaking film depicts Hungary’s grim welcome to Holocaust survivors
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — The time is just after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Two Orthodox Jews disembark from a train at a rural…
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Jewish family learns they are related to Scarlett Johansson by watching PBS show
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — Turns out you don’t actually have to be a guest on Henry Louis Gates’ PBS show “Finding Your Roots” to,…
Scarlett Johansson cries when she discovers her family’s tragic Holocaust history on ‘Finding Your Roots’
(JTA) — Scarlett Johansson knew that her mother’s side of the family came from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, but she didn’t know much else about…
Rob Reiner on Judaism, movies and his experience ‘home shuling’
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — By his own admission, Rob Reiner was not the right person to direct “LBJ,” a film biography of Lyndon Baines…
Beth Israel presents premiere reading of ‘Truman’s Jew’ on December 11
By Regan Treewater (EJNews) – On December 11, Beth Israel Synagogue will present a world premiere reading of Truman’s Jew, a new play that explores…