Libeskind-designed museum reflects surrealist Nussbaum’s art
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2014
Just walking up to the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück, Germany, is a breathtaking experience.
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Culture
Clandestine love affair fuels “My Old Lady” directed by Israel Horovitz
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2014
The painful rippling effects of a clandestine love affair are explored in the movie “My Old Lady,” which marks the film directorial debut of noted playwright Israel Horovitz, who also wrote the screenplay.
Israeli director Ari Folman’s new film ‘The Congress’ is visually stunning
Tom Tugend
August 27, 2014
Israeli director Ari Folman’s “The Congress” is “a visual masterpiece that will be studied and revered for generations,” one critic writes.
Meet the Jewish founders of Tinder
Jared Sichel
August 27, 2014
Finding dates used to require approaches such as hiring matchmakers, signing up for dancing and cooking classes, attending synagogue, asking friends for help, or, for the least energetic, merely creating a cursory profile on sites such as JDate.
Adrien Brody performs tricks, shticks of the Great Harry Houdini
Tom Tugend
August 27, 2014
Erik Weisz, son of an unsuccessful immigrant rabbi from Hungary, settled in Appleton, Wis., became a world-famous magician and escape artist and changed his name to Harry Houdini.
Survivor: Miriam Bell
Jane Ulman
August 27, 2014
As the candles glowed, Miriam Bell (née Galperin), her parents and six siblings were singing and welcoming the Sabbath into their comfortable home in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.
Zara ‘sorry’ for t-shirt that looks like Nazi camp uniform
Jewish Journal
August 27, 2014
Global fashion chain Zara, owned by Spain\’s Inditex, pulled from sale on Wednesday a striped children\’s top decorated with a large six-pointed star after it was likened to uniforms worn by Jewish concentration camp inmates in Nazi Germany.
Losing to Gain: The Central Paradox of Death Rituals – The Break that Binds
Rabbi Joe Blair
August 27, 2014
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