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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 590

Rich Tenorio

Reporter at The Times of Israel
FILE: With the Dome of the Rock on the right, an Israeli man covered in a flag watches Israelis wave the national flag as they march in the Jerusalem Day parade in Jerusalem's Old City, June 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 1, 2025, 8:05 pm
Jewish state or state of the Jews? How Israel’s independence sparked an identity conflict
In his book ‘To Be a Jewish State,’ Oxford professor Yaacov Yadgar raises provocative questions in the context of the old-new arguments about national and religious identity
By Rich Tenorio
Detail from a newspaper illustration of Nathaniel Isaacs's colony in Matakong. (Courtesy of Adam Rovner)
April 26, 2025, 8:26 am
How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord
In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption
By Rich Tenorio
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2025, 6:00 am
Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp
Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe
By Rich Tenorio
Oliver Jackson-Cohen as Solomon Wiener, left, and Jeremy Neumark Jones as Michael Podchlebnik in 'The World Will Tremble' by Israeli director Lior Geller. (Courtesy)
April 24, 2025, 4:25 pm
New film shows how escapees from 1st Nazi death camp revealed Final Solution to the world
Screening in NY to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, director Lior Geller’s ‘The World Will Tremble’ tells true story of daring revelation of plan to exterminate world Jewry
By Rich Tenorio
In this May 7, 1933 photo, Adolf Hitler speaks to 30,000 uniformed Nazi storm troopers at Kiel, Germany. (AP Photo/ File)
April 24, 2025, 4:05 am
AP controversially kept photojournalists in Nazi Germany. But is that the whole picture?
The self-styled impartial media outlet investigated itself for its actions while operating within Hitler’s dictatorship during WWII. The probe inspired new book ‘Newshawks in Berlin’
By Rich Tenorio
A reenactment of the American Revolution's Battle of Great Bridge takes place in Chesapeake, Virginia, December 8, 2024. (iStock photos/ Bill Chizek)
April 18, 2025, 5:11 pm
How Jewish patriots in the US Revolutionary War helped shape the First Amendment
In new book ‘A Promised Land,’ history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews – then just 0.1% of the population – in fighting for independence and forging America
By Rich Tenorio
An image from the cover of 'The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai.' (Courtesy Melissa R. Klapper)
April 11, 2025, 12:35 pm
Slave-owning Jewish Confederate woman documents wartime Passover in newly published diary
Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai’s US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority
By Rich Tenorio
Stuart Eizenstat poses for a photograph during an International Conference on Welfare for Holocaust Survivors in Prague, Czech Republic, May 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 5, 2025, 10:09 am
Jewish Camp David broker chronicles 50 years of world-changing negotiations
In ‘The Art of Diplomacy,’ longtime US negotiator Stuart Eizenstat draws on interviews with 130 global players to highlight the most important agreements of the last half-century
By Rich Tenorio
Jesus and his disciples in a still from Season 2 of 'The Chosen.' (Courtesy)
March 28, 2025, 1:22 am
Just in time for Passover, Jesus biopic ‘The Chosen’ premieres Season 5 in US cinemas
Launching March 28, hit show doesn’t downplay Christ’s Jewish roots but takes advice from a Messianic rabbi. Season Five: Last Supper to see a theatrical run before heading to streaming
By Rich Tenorio
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
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