Achieving success in the New Year and beyond
By Laurence Zalmanowitz, As each New Year begins, we often take time to reflect on the past year while looking forward to the year to…
Arts
7 Yom Kippur-themed shows to watch
By Linda Buchwald (JTA) — When it comes to Jewish holidays in pop culture, Hanukkah gets top billing — but that has more to do…
Book Review: Facing the Shards by Joy Ruth Mickelson
Reviewed by Deborah Shatz (EJNews) – In 1939, facing a Nazi invasion, the British government ordered the evacuation of 500,000 young people from London to…
New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers
By Ben Sales (JTA) — In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion…
In ‘Blazing Saddles,’ Gene Wilder helped recall a fading black-Jewish alliance
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Last year I joined some 3,000 people at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark for a wide-screen showing of…