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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
Zero Mostel as Tevye in a still from 'Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.' (Courtesy Toronto Jewish Film Festival)
May 8, 2019, 4:39 pm
How ‘Fiddler’ surprised critics to become a top-billed musical for over 50 years
With documentary ‘Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles’ premiering Wednesday, filmmaker Max Lewkowicz investigates why Tevye, Golde, and Anatevka captured hearts the world over
By Rich Tenorio
A still from the new historical drama film 'A Rose in Winter.' (Courtesy Joshua Sinclair)
May 2, 2019, 4:29 am
Controversial canonized nun Edith Stein becomes tragic Queen Esther in new film
Historical drama ‘A Rose in Winter’ depicts Saint Stein’s religious awakening and death at Auschwitz as a contemporary cry for universal tolerance
By Rich Tenorio
Abdol Hossein Sardari, the 'Iranian Schindler' (photo credit: Fariborz Mokhtari)
May 1, 2019, 11:25 pm
Unrecognized ‘Iranian Schindler’ said to have saved countless Paris Jews in WWII
New film ‘Sardari’s Enigma’ portrays how Abdol Hossein Sardari issued passports with an archaic — and false — Persian-Aryan ethnicity. So why isn’t he honored by Israel?
By Rich Tenorio
Planet Earth: how did it get its start? (iStock/MarcelC)
April 22, 2019, 9:15 am
Move over Big Bang: Should science take a page from religion’s Big History book?
In ‘Origin Story,’ Prof. David Christian offers a big-picture look at Earth, the universe, and everything — a zoom-out perspective that could just save the planet
By Rich Tenorio
Sheila (center left) and Marilynn Brass learn to make cheeseburgers at Mainely Burgers in Cambridge, Massachusetts from Jack Barber (far left) and Max Barber (right). (Bruce Seidel)
April 14, 2019, 4:44 am
Fusing food and family, these flirty TV sisters just get better with age
Sheila and Marilynn Brass turn 130 years of combined cooking experience into ‘The Food Flirts,’ a James Beard-nominated series where they sweet talk top chefs into sharing recipes
By Rich Tenorio
From left, 'Code Name Lise' author Larry Loftis; Odette Sansom. (Courtesy)
April 13, 2019, 8:54 am
The forgotten female WWII-era spy who stayed silent under gruesome Nazi torture
Odette Sansom was the first woman to receive the UK’s second-highest honor for courage under fire. She’s now being remembered in a new book, ‘Code Name Lise’
By Rich Tenorio
In this still from the new historical dramatic film 'The Light of Hope,' Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz speaks with Pat, one of the children at her maternity hospital that she ran for refugees from 1939 to 1944 in Elne, France. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2019, 5:08 am
How one Swiss nurse hid hundreds of pregnant women and their kids from the Nazis
‘The Light of Hope’ shares the little-known story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, who saved young refugees during the Spanish Civil War and WWII through her French maternity clinic
By Rich Tenorio
Mambo dancers in New York's Catskill mountains, from 'The Mamboniks.' (Courtesy Lex Gillespie)
March 3, 2019, 4:38 pm
Hey mambo: The Latin music craze that moved a generation of Jewish immigrants
The mambo got a foothold in New York’s 1940s and ’50s melting pot, bringing Jews, Italians, Puerto Ricans and others in step, as portrayed in ‘The Mamboniks,’ premiering March 3
By Rich Tenorio
Alfred Lion, seated, and Francis Wolff. (Courtesy Mosaic Images LLC)
February 13, 2019, 2:27 am
This Jewish duo escaped the Nazis to break sound barriers with Blue Note Records
New documentary ‘It Must Schwing!’ celebrates the founders of jazz’s top label, who recorded legendary African-American musicians of the 20th century at a time of racial strife
By Rich Tenorio
Holocaust-era hero and founder of Universal Pictures Carl Laemmle. (Courtesy James L. Freedman.)
February 10, 2019, 5:37 am
He put Dracula on the big screen, and saved hundreds of Jews from a real monster
A new documentary sheds light on Carl Laemmle, a German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Studios and fought to rescue 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany
By Rich Tenorio
In the new Holocaust dramatic film 'The Bird Catcher,' Norwegian Jewish teenage girl Esther (Sarah-Sofie Boussnina) is shown posing as a non-Jewish boy named Ola to survive persecution by the Nazis and collaborators. (Courtesy)
February 5, 2019, 5:42 pm
Running from Nazis, Norwegian Jewish girl masquerades as teenage boy in new film
Esther hides in plain sight with a pro-Nazi family in ‘The Bird Catcher,’ a gripping new drama that premiered this week which highlights an overlooked chapter of Holocaust history
By Rich Tenorio
Artist John Hendrix. (YouTube screenshot)
January 27, 2019, 5:41 am
A pastor who helped plot to kill Hitler is now the hero of a graphic novel
Artist John Hendrix, himself a man of faith, immortalizes theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer in ‘The Faithful Spy,’ a serious comic for teens and tweens
By Rich Tenorio
Rendered chicken fat is distinctly yellow. The gribenes, or cracklings, are delicious little morsels of crisped skin. (The Fat Kitchen © by Andrea Chesman. Photography/ © by Keller + Keller Photography/ Storey Publishing)
January 23, 2019, 5:19 am
Will 2019 be the year of the schmaltz? Two new cookbooks by Jews praise the lard
While most health experts still prefer to recommend use of vegetable fats, a growing chorus touts animal fats as the culinary comeback of the century
By Rich Tenorio
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