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Rich Tenorio
January 16, 2020, 11:36 pm
In film ‘Crescendo,’ an Israeli-Palestinian orchestra struggles to get in tune
True to its name, the German film directed by filmmaker Dror Zahavi reaches a fever pitch as musicians from both sides of a conflict learn to play in sync. Premiering January 16
By Rich Tenorio
Constitutional law expert Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman steps out of a hearing room during recess while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on the constitutional grounds for the impeachment of US President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
January 16, 2020, 4:29 am
As impeachment moves ahead, prof who helped make case sees ‘archetype of abuse’
Harvard’s Noah Feldman, who explained ‘impeachability’ to House Judiciary Committee, says Founders backed mechanism out of fear leaders would do exactly what Trump is accused of
By Rich Tenorio
In this still from the 2018 film 'Back to Maracana,' some long overdue bonding takes place between Brazilian-Israeli father Roberto (Asaf Goldstien) and his son Itai (Rom Barnea). (Courtesy)
January 15, 2020, 8:56 pm
Spotlight on Ibero-Jewish films at Miami festival celebrates influx of Sephardim
Held in a city that’s home to increasing numbers of Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Jews, festival focuses on movies from Spain, Argentina, Portugal, and Brazil, through January
By Rich Tenorio
Labor on Nazi-era hereditary farms was performed by members of the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth), the Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls), and the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service), which conscripted young men and women during the war years. German youth were required to farm due to the need for settlers in new eastern territories. (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E1068, Wikimedia Commons)
January 11, 2020, 7:09 pm
How vegetation helped win — and lose — World War II
In ‘Plants Go to War,’ author Judith Sumner describes how botanists on the frontlines helped feed, cloth, and arm their nations
By Rich Tenorio
'Be Careful, It's My Heart,' is the song Irving Berlin sings during an interview in Berlin's New York office, July 16, 1942. (AP Photo/Murray Becker)
December 24, 2019, 12:51 pm
How Jewish-American immigrant Irving Berlin started a Christmas revolution
‘Irving Berlin: New York Genius’ tells how the songwriting legend, born Israel Beilin in czarist Russia, started on the streets before penning the hit ‘White Christmas’
By Rich Tenorio
Left: In an undated photo from recent years, Jews celebrate Hanukkah at Sinagoga Ner Tamid del Sud in Calabria, the first active synagogue since the area's Jews were expelled in the Inquisition 500 years ago. (Courtesy Rabbi Barbara Aiello); Right: Cassola, or ricotta pancakes, for Hanukkah by food blogger Tori Avey. (Courtesy Avey)
December 22, 2019, 11:50 pm
Were the original Hanukkah latkes really ricotta pancakes from Italy?
Brought to Rome by Sephardic Jews from southern Italy, the lesser-known cassola, which predate the now-ubiquitous potato latke, are enjoying a resurgence
By Rich Tenorio
Yifat Bitton, co-founder and chair of Tmura, the Israeli Anti-Discrimination Center, gave the keynote address at the first-ever Mizrahi Legal Studies conference at Harvard Law School, held on December 10 and 11, 2019. (Rich Tenorio/ Times of Israel)
December 13, 2019, 12:56 am
Harvard hosts first-ever conference for emerging field of Mizrahi legal studies
Diverse speakers and listeners including Palestinians and Israelis, participate in inaugural confab for those seeking to curb inequality for Israel’s Middle Eastern Jews
By Rich Tenorio
This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, 10 feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and boiled into a highly radioactive, jade-green, glassy crust. (AP Photo)
December 2, 2019, 8:19 pm
Historians uncover fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic secrets in WWII
After seven decades, identity of mole finally revealed in a tangled story of cat-and-mouse espionage involving Jewish agents and double-agents working for the Communists and FBI
By Rich Tenorio
Holocaust survivor Khana Kuperman, right, with Samantha Schabot, left, and Diana Hoffstein, center, at the Witness Theater production, 'The Spirit of Hope,' by students at the Yeshiva of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, Sunday April 23, 2017. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News/ Courtesy Rudavsky)
November 15, 2019, 4:43 pm
When Holocaust survivors join students in theater class, it produces movie magic
Documentary film ‘Witness Theater’ depicts drama lessons that bridge communication gaps between octogenarians and high schoolers, and their resultant real-life friendships
By Rich Tenorio
Herbert Gildin and two of his grandchildren, Tyler Gildin, right, and Alex Utay. Utay was a producer on the film. (Courtesy Tyler Gildin)
November 13, 2019, 3:20 pm
In film, grandfather returns to Sweden to thank post-Kristallnacht saviors
In short doc ‘The Starfish,’ an extended family travels to Falun, Sweden, to meet righteous gentiles who sheltered their patriarch
By Rich Tenorio
Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky with her husband, Jeff, and their son, Philip, as a baby. (From the film 'Grateful')
November 6, 2019, 11:44 pm
In film, recently deceased Jewish naturopath says ALS actually ‘saved her life’
In a short documentary screening November 7, wife, mom and triathlete Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky sends a message of vital hope as she turned an 18-month prognosis into 10 years
By Rich Tenorio
Director Joseph Lovett with Carmen Gomez Gomez, examining a 14th-century tax document in the Toledo cathedral archives, in this still from 'Children of the Inquisition.' (Lovett Productions)
October 26, 2019, 2:50 am
How Jews expelled from Spain forged a diaspora with ties to 25% of Latin America
Film ‘Children of the Inquisition’ examines forced conversion of Sephardim from the Iberian Peninsula 500 years ago and why their descendants still feel ripple effects
By Rich Tenorio
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
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