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Lacey Schwartz Delgado. (Courtesy)
October 6, 2019, 3:00 am
A biracial Jewish filmmaker refuses to shy from thorny questions of identity
Lacey Schwartz Delgado’s dual identities as an African-American and New York Jew inform her documentary, ‘Little White Lie,’ and her current work with youth via Be’chol Lashon
By Rich Tenorio
French spymaster Marie-Madeleine Fourcade's false identity card as Marie-Suzanne Imbert. (Granger)
October 4, 2019, 9:19 am
Forgotten female spymaster led French Resistance’s largest intelligence ring
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade used society’s conservative view of women to her advantage, helming an operation that saw hundreds gather intel essential for defeating Nazis
By Rich Tenorio
Sarah Bernhardt captured by Felix Nadar, 1864 (Public domain)
October 1, 2019, 3:04 pm
How late-19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt pioneered celebrity as we know it
As highlighted in new book ‘The Drama of Celebrity,’ the French-Jewish actress inspired coverage from criticism to caricature, some of it racist, sexist and anti-Semitic
By Rich Tenorio
Former head speechwriter for Michelle Obama and author of the new book, 'Here All Along,' Sarah Hurwitz, left pictured with the former first lady. (Chuck Kennedy/White House)
September 6, 2019, 5:00 am
Former Obama speechwriter turns her pen to a new book on reconnecting to Judaism
Sarah Hurwitz, who was a senior writer for both the president and first lady, returns to her roots in a new work on Jewish tradition, released just ahead of the High Holidays
By Rich Tenorio
Latvian star Arturs Skrastins, left, portrays Latvian Holocaust hero and Righteous Among the Nations member Zanis Lipke in the new historical drama film 'The Mover.' (Courtesy Washington Jewish Film Festival)
August 20, 2019, 4:15 am
Blue-collar Latvian ‘Schindler’ saved dozens with few resources of his own
Historical drama ‘The Mover’ tells the story of Žanis Lipke, who managed to hide and transport 60 Jews with limited means, while risking execution by occupying Nazi forces
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: Texas style brisket Tuesday, June 14, 2005, in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
August 19, 2019, 4:12 am
Any way you slice it, from delicatessen to BBQ smoker, this meat is a cut above
Culinary master Steven Raichlen’s new history-meets-cookbook, ‘The Brisket Chronicles,’ is a love affair with a carnivorous delicacy that’s as delicious as it is tough to perfect
By Rich Tenorio
A still from the film 'The Fig Tree' by Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker Aalam-Warqe Davidian. (Courtesy Menemsha Films)
August 9, 2019, 2:37 am
Ethiopian-Israeli filmmaker shines the camera on life her community left behind
As other films focus on spectacular rescue missions for Ethiopia’s Beta Israel Jews, Aalam-Warqe Davidian presents a dramatic true-to-life story about leaving home
By Rich Tenorio
Wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum in the High Arctic. (Susan Friedman)
August 2, 2019, 8:48 pm
In Arctic, polar bear is final frontier for famed Israeli wildlife photographer
New documentary ‘Picture of His Life’ shows award-winning Amos Nachoum shudder at the idea of missing his Moby Dick; filmmakers Dani Menkin and Yonatan Nir capture the expedition
By Rich Tenorio
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin speaking recently with indigenous leaders of the Tumucumaque region in northern Brazil. (Courtesy)
August 2, 2019, 9:57 am
Ethnobotanist says life mission to save indigenous culture is native to Judaism
Harvard-educated Mark Plotkin does a literal take on tikkun olam by fighting deforestation and working to preserve untouched societies in the heart of the Amazon rainforest
By Rich Tenorio
The raising of the new swastika flag aboard the S.S. Bremen as it was docked in the Hudson River. Captain Adolf Ahern, behind the stand with the draped Nazi flag, conducted the ceremonies. (Photo by Jimmy Condon/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
July 25, 2019, 2:00 pm
What one US sailor did when a German ocean liner flew the Nazi flag in 1935 NYC
In a new book, journalist Peter Duffy tells how 84 years ago merchant marine Bill Bailey risked jail to tear a swastika from a ship carrying Rockefellers, movie stars, and nobility
By Rich Tenorio
Prof. Avi Loeb in his Harvard office. His computer wallpaper features a photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to our Sun. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)
July 19, 2019, 8:57 pm
Israeli Harvard astronomer has an inalienable gravitation to interstellar study
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Prof. Avi Loeb defiantly holds out hope that humanity will encounter other forms of life in the universe
By Rich Tenorio
Regis Talar, Enrico Macias and Philippe Clair share a laugh. (Courtesy Yves Azeroual)
July 5, 2019, 12:44 am
Rags to riches tale of five of France’s top talents makes for magnificent film
‘Les Magnifiques’ depicts lives of quintet of North African Jews who fled their countries in the ’50s and ’60s before finding huge success in the French entertainment industry
By Rich Tenorio
'Through the Lens of Faith,' an exhibit running through 2020 at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland. (Courtesy Daniel Libeskind)
June 30, 2019, 12:33 pm
At Auschwitz, an exhibit takes an unprecedented look at religion and survival
‘Through the Lens of Faith’ focuses on 21 survivors who discuss how their relationship with God and the divine evolved during and after their internment at the death camp
By Rich Tenorio
Audrey Hepburn at around the time the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands began. (Dotti Collection)
June 12, 2019, 4:55 pm
How Hollywood idol Audrey Hepburn helped save Dutch Jews during the Holocaust
Veteran star chronicler Robert Matzen traces Hepburn’s roots in the Netherlands, her mother’s fleeting Nazi sympathies, and her covert activities against the occupying Nazi regime
By Rich Tenorio
This photo taken April 10, 2009 shows Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl being interviewed in her office in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
June 9, 2019, 2:21 am
Even as Gourmet magazine folded, the woman in charge made a recipe for success
While at the helm of a publication that was an American culinary institution, Ruth Reichl made some controversial decisions — but everyone agrees her new cookbooks are delectable
By Rich Tenorio
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