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By Jason Miller, JTA World News Service WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (JTA) — A few months after my first child was born, I went to a bookstore to buy a f
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By Dikla Tuchman , JTNews Correspondent Opera can tell a story in a way no other musical composition can. The level of emotional intensity opera ac
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By Alice Kaderlan , JTNews Correspondent In the mid ‘60s, in the small German village of Efringen-Kirchen on the French border, a preteen boy
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By Alice Kaderlan, JTNews Correspondent It will come as no surprise to anyone who has seen Frank Ferrante at Teatro ZinZanni that this is a man who
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By Debra Rubin , JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — Emotional. Raw. Frustrating. That’s how Oz Fishman describes his reaction to "Bull
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By Dikla Tuchman , Special to JTNews As the spring quarter launches into full bloom at the University of Washington, the Stroum Jewish Studies Prog
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By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews If movies can truly make a difference, then the timing of the soulful French wartime drama "Free Men" couldn
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By Alice Kaderlan , Special to JTNews It’s hard to decide which story is more compelling — the one about Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic who
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By Dikla Tuchman, Special to JTNews Long after the wine has been quaffed, the fingers pointed, the hushed comments disappeared into the ether, the
Read MoreBy , JTNews Correspondent If we’re to get a taste of Jewish life through film, then there’s no better place in our corner of the world
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews So many secrets, so little time. But in communist-era Poland, secrets are the currency of choice. Such is the cas
Read MoreBy Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews A few things should happen in a slasher flick. One, somebody should get slashed, preferably in the b
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By Joel Magalnick, Editor, JTNews Here’s a synopsis: Uptight, repressed Valley girl spends some time in the city, learns about herself, and f
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By Michael Fox , Special to JTNews The curtain rises on the riveting, roller-coaster drama Wunderkinder (Child Prodigies) in a present-day concert
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By Emily K. Alhadeff, Assistant Editor, JTNews Achoti HaYafah translates to My Lovely Sister, but it may as well translate to "My Really Dysfunctio
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