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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
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
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