In 2012, playwright and director Deborah Stein was riveted by a conversation with her artistic partner, Suli Holum, who described a startling newspaper article she had read on a female boxer, Christy Martin.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies (“Dinner With Friends”) first saw images of concentration camps when he was about 6 years old, during TV coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel.
There was a time when the esteemed Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt would never have imagined that one of her books might be turned into a dramatic feature film.
Chef Ori Menashe was sipping mint tea recently in his wildly successful downtown restaurant, Bestia, reminiscing about the gourmet erev Rosh Hashanah meals he enjoyed during his childhood in Ramat HaSharon, Israel.
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