Arts & Culture

Phyllis Chesler pioneered the study of violence against women in the late 1960s, concentrating on women living in North America and Europe. By 2003, she was writing about honor killings, based on newspaper accounts, Internet sources, interviews, and memoirs. She…

Alberto Giacometti’s first solo exhibition in America was unsuccessful. The art dealer in charge of the 1934 event, Julien Levy, admitted “almost nobody liked the Giacometti sculptures.” They were priced at $150 to $250. Over 170 sculptures and paintings are…

Highest Fiscal Year Attendance in The Met’s Recorded History The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently announced that it welcomed more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—in the fiscal…

Chris Froome may face bigger challenges off the bike as he gets ready for another journey through France for what could be a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title. Fans and the media are giving him a hard time though….

Noted Canadian journalist Max Wallace unearths documents linking Nazi destruction of Auschwitz gas chambers to previously unknown pact Noted Canadian Holocaust historian Max Wallace has uncovered groundbreaking evidence that Nazi SS Chief Heinrich Himmler was deceived into ending the Final…

Unlike Columbia president Nicholas Butler, who, when asked around 1913 if he had seen Progressive historian Charles Beard’s last book, responded, “I hope so!,” I myself won’t be happy to think that Volume 9 of The Black Book of the American…

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) recently had the commercial opening of its new short documentary “Footsteps of My Father,” which explores the heroism of Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds in saving the lives of 200 Jewish American soldiers during…

The highly anticipated American premiere of the Yiddish language Fiddler on the Roof, presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) begins preview PERFORMANCE Off Broadway at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Wednesday, July 4th, with Press Opening slated…

Last week, a United States amendment to a draft resolution that would have condemned the terrorist group Hamas was blocked at the U.N. General Assembly even before getting to a vote. U.S. Ambassador and future POTUS Nikki Haley called the…

Fran Hawthorne opens The Heirs at a moment of extreme pique for protagonist Eleanor Ritter. Her mother has been found on her New Jersey bedroom floor with a fractured hip. Once Eleanor arrives at the emergency room, the head nurse…

Even people who were close to Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach don’t know about the singing rabbi’s relationship with Gospel singer Nina Simone. To be sure, it was not a relationship that could have been predicted – she a black girl from…

Following the international launch of the film When The Smoke Clears: A Story of Brotherhood, Resilience and Hope on Israel’s Memorial Day, Jerusalem U, released the film for community screenings in time for Tisha B’Av, July 22. The announcement comes during a month of…

“This is not a clash between equally moral positions; it is a battle between freedom and oppression, compassion and barbarism, civilised behaviour and violence. We need to decide what side we are on, and fight for that side to win.”…

With the month of June now upon us, it is time to present my choices of high quality books for your summer reading pleasure. First on my list is a revised edition of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s “The Lonely Man…

Kansas City native Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg has devoted much of his life to making sure the horrors of the Holocaust will not be forgotten. The rabbi also wants to make Holocaust history easier to learn and to remember. Case…