By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer “I’m coming to the U.S. to perform and it makes me very, very happy because it’s been a while and, also, after last year — the cancellations and all — here I have festivals that did book me,” singer/songwriter Daphna Levy says via

By David A.M. Wilensky, jweekly.com A Hollywood icon made an appearance on opening night of the 44th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. And by all accounts, she was freshly washed, curled and darned. Lamb Chop, the beloved sock puppet, was in rare form as she interacted with media and festival

By Jessica Steinberg, Times of Israel As the U.N. warned Israel on Sept. 5, 2023 against expelling Eritreans en masse following major clashes, the Jerusalem Cinematheque was hosting a screening of the Ophir-nominated film Running on Sand, a comedy-drama about an Eritrean asylum seeker struggling to survive in Tel Aviv.

By Lior Zaltzman, Kveller There’s something alchemical that happens when you watch Elsa Zylberstein on screen. The French Jewish actress becomes her characters — be they amazing or villainous, comedic and dramatic. After watching her in Simone: Woman of the Century, in which she stars as a somber, serious and

By Alan Zeitlin, JNS Director and writer Daniel Robbins was looking for a different kind of comedy when producer Adam Mitchell had an idea that he had never seen done on screen before. Robbins — a Modern Orthodox graduate of the Ramaz day school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and

By Rabbi Haviva Horvitz Temple Beth Sholom Have you ever completed reading a book or a series of books and immediately commenced reading it again? Did you notice something the second or third time that you hadn’t quite comprehended the first time? I have found that sometimes, foreshadowing isn’t obvious

Sacred Speech Series Jewish Family Education with Candace R. Kwiatek, The Dayton Jewish Observer A true story from a Jewish mother who wishes to remain anonymous. At day’s end, she collected her daughter from her toddler classroom and headed, as usual, to the infant room. There, the two briefly chatted

Molly Blumer is One Lincoln Park Premier Retirement Living’s new director of business development. Molly has more than a decade of senior living sales experience. The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honored Renate Frydman at its annual volunteer banquet April 24 for her 25 years as a volunteer

Opinion By Martin Gottlieb So now Jews are the chosen minority? The Trump administration is energetically – hyperenergetically – destroying programs that are designed to combat historic and current prejudice against other minorities: Black people, women, Muslims, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. The destruction of these DEI programs is

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