For ex-baseball players, Israel is a place to learn and teach
By Hillel Kuttler (JTA) – Out of baseball after four years playing in the minor leagues, Brent Powers, a Christian from Texas, took a tour…
Arts
Roman Polanski, 10 other Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust
By Gabe Friedman (JTA) — The Hollywood Reporter is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust with a feature on 11 survivors who went…
Two Holocaust-themed films make the Oscar cut
By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Two films about the Holocaust and its aftermath have made the cut to compete for best foreign-language film….
President Obama to appear on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars’ show
(JTA) — President Barack Obama will appear on comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” web series. The episode, the first in the show’s…
Book Review: Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Reviewed by Deborah Shatz (EJNews) – The timing for the latest release from University of Manitoba Press entitled Holocaust Survivors in Canada; Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation,…