Israeli photographer Dikla Laor reimagines the woman of the Hebrew Bible, from Queen Esther to Moses’ sister Miriam, through lush painterly images set against the breathtaking landscapes of the Golan Heights.
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DVD Documentaries, Patterns of Evidence and The ReturnFilmmaker Timothy Mahoney spent 12 years searching for archaeological proof of the biblical Exodus.
Art and War, on FilmPhoenix This haunting German movie is set in rubble-strewn 1945 Berlin after war’s end. Nelly, a Jewish nightclub singer, returns from Auschwitz with a bullet-scarred
A Rock ‘n’ Roller’s Jewish SoulVirtuoso guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, great-grandson of a Torah scribe, has spent the last two decades exploring his Jewish roots.
The Second AbrahamOn November 4, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln penned a brief letter on official letterhead (“Executive Mansion, Washington”) to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. “I believe
Hankus NetskyWith music—particularly East European Jewish music—woven through his family DNA and early childhood, a career rooted in klezmer was bashert.
An American in ParisThis staged version shares many elements with the 1951 film. The Gershwins’ score is glorious, the dancing superb and the plot—an ex-G.I. stays on in Paris after World
Film Reviews: Of Bigotry, Lies and LoveA young prosecutor in 1958 Frankfurt is determined to expose the atrocities of Auschwitz; a religious faux pas sets off a communal tragedy in a tight-knit, working-class Mizrahi
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