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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Rich Tenorio

Reporter at The Times of Israel
Palestinian children watch as the Israeli Civil Administration demolishes a home in At-Tuwani, a village in Masafer Yatta, on May 7, 2025. (Courtesy of Emily Glick)
March 25, 2025, 10:37 pm
Why US art houses screen Oscar-winning Palestinian doc that mainstream theaters shun
Despite winning an Academy Award, ‘No Other Land’ is seldom seen in commercial cinemas. In many small theaters, showings are regularly full, audiences eager and reviews positive
By Rich Tenorio
Natalia Casarotti speaks about the murder of her son Keshet at the Supernova music festival on October 7 for the Spanish-language series 'Testigos del Terror.' (Courtesy Fuente Latina)
March 24, 2025, 2:00 am
Looking to sway Spanish-speaking world, new series interviews Latin Israelis about Oct. 7
Following its premiere last month, ‘Testigos del Terror,’ or ‘Witnesses of Terror,’ seeks to show non-Jewish Hispanic viewers that the tragedy is not a political issue but a human one
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi Moses 'Mo' Zaltzman, played by actor Mark Feuerstein, in 'Guns & Moses.' (Courtesy)
March 16, 2025, 6:19 am
A gunslinging rabbi takes on an antisemitic whodunit in this thrilling Jewish Western
Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, ‘Guns & Moses’ targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats
By Rich Tenorio
Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos (left) and Bruno Lohse. (© Living Memory Productions)
February 19, 2025, 6:23 pm
Unrepentant Nazi art thief who stole Jews’ art from ‘still warm walls’ focus of new film
Airing Feb. 19 on PBS, ‘Plunderer’ chronicles the life of Bruno Lohse, who amassed a collection worth millions while looting the homes of Jews for his boss Hermann Goering during WWII
By Rich Tenorio
A still from 'Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin'. (Courtesy)
January 28, 2025, 3:30 am
Film about hero executed by Nazis faces accusations of abetting Christian nationalism
‘Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin’ portrays a real-life minister martyred for standing up for his beliefs, but critics including his descendants say it hides a political message
By Rich Tenorio
Prof. Derek Penslar, right, and Prof. Magda Teter, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies and professor of history at Fordham University speak during a panel at Harvard Yard, December 10, 2024. (Courtesy)
January 15, 2025, 4:57 am
Harvard antisemitism task force co-chair talks about post-Oct. 7 ‘petrified anger’
Prof. Derek Penslar recently spoke at the Divinity School about his book ‘Zionism: An Emotional State,’ and the passions motivating Zionists and anti-Zionists, now and in the past
By Rich Tenorio
Filmmaker Leslie Gelrubin Benitah sees the devastation wrought on Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, in this still from 'Milk and Honey, Blood and Tears.' (Courtesy)
January 9, 2025, 2:51 am
Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it
Running from Jan. 9-23, the Miami Jewish Film Festival features 13 films dealing with the Hamas atrocities, to help combat denial of the tragedy and make victims’ voices heard
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen next to the statue of John Harvard, the first major benefactor of Harvard College, draped in the Palestinian flag, at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
December 12, 2024, 4:04 am
At Harvard, US academics compare notes on a year of post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism
Jewish Studies faculty from around the United States convene in Cambridge this week to dissect an ongoing period of unprecedented hostility
By Rich Tenorio
At left: Jean Carroll circa 1955. (via Photofest); Cover of 'First Lady of Laughs' by Grace Kessler Overbeke. (Courtesy: NYU Press)
November 18, 2024, 4:25 am
Before Midge Maisel, there was Jean Carroll, a real-life trailblazing Jewish comedienne
In her new book, ‘First Lady of Laughs,’ scholar Grace Kessler Overbeke shines light on the oft-overlooked performer who created ‘a totally different model of funny Jewish women’
By Rich Tenorio
Michael Milken, left, formerly of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., arrives at State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his arraignment, April 7, 1989. At right is Milken's attorney Arthur Liman. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
November 4, 2024, 2:02 am
How an ’80s Wall Street hotshot’s antics got him jailed – and how Trump aided his comeback
In ‘Witness to a Prosecution,’ Richard Sandler takes on the legal system that landed his friend Michael Milken in prison and charts his return, which includes a presidential pardon
By Rich Tenorio
Left: Orthodox Jews congregate in Venice’s ancient Jewish ghetto. (Photo by Paolo Raccanelli); Right: Cover of 'Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto,' by Harry Freedman. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
Poetry, philosophy and a gambling rabbi: A colorful history of Venice’s Jewish ghetto
In ‘Shylock’s Venice,’ UK author Harry Freedman paints a vibrant picture of an oft-overlooked side of Jewish history that goes far deeper than the famous Shakespeare character
By Rich Tenorio
Detail from an illustration from 'Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,' by Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2024, 12:14 pm
This Sukkot, a new book gives a daring – and beautiful – reassessment of Ecclesiastes
In ‘Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living,’ Israeli philosopher Menachem Fisch and American artist Debra Band paint the ancient eponymous text in a more optimistic light
By Rich Tenorio
Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)
October 11, 2024, 4:43 pm
A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened
French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic
By Rich Tenorio
NASA Planetary Science Division director Lori Glaze, left, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory DART coordination lead Nancy Chabot, and DART program scientist Tom Statler speak during a media briefing about the agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), at NASA headquarters on October 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 4, 2024, 12:57 pm
A scientist helps save the world from asteroids. What would the Midrash say?
Addressing Boston’s Vilna Shul as part of its Lifesavers Speaker Series, Dr. Nancy Chabot shows how collaboration in the emerging field of planetary defense proves a rabbinic adage
By Rich Tenorio
Marty Glickman (left), and Sam Stoller, at sea en route to the 1936 Olympics. (Courtesy, Nancy Glickman via JTA)
August 7, 2024, 1:44 am
How the US caved to antisemitism and snubbed a Jewish Olympian at 1936 Berlin Games
In new book ‘Marty Glickman,’ historian and professor Jeffrey Gurock unlocks the life of a sports hero and announcer whose proud Jewish identity was a model for countless young fans
By Rich Tenorio
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