The first time Ludmila Page watched “Schindler’s List,” she was unfazed: Having lived out the events in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Academy Award-winning film, the 96-year-old Holocaust survivor failed to register any shock at the silver screen version.
The first time Israeli animal rights activist Chen Cohen met the StandWithUs (SWU) staffer who invited him to speak at last weekend’s Los Angeles conference, he thought she was a spy for the meat and dairy industry.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer pledged to work with newly-appointed WH chief strategist Steve Bannon, despite the opposition from major Jewish organizations, after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York on Thursday.
If movies and documentaries mirror, or perhaps anticipate, a nation’s mood, Israel is due for a period of reflection and introspection, focusing on relations with its Palestinian and other minority citizens.
Israel has a vibrant music scene with artists representing a wide variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, but much of that music never makes it to the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly declined an invitation to meet with President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration.
At the opening to the Anti-Defamation League’s conference on anti-Semitism, the organization’s national director said anti-Jewish hatred in America is worse than at any point since the 1930s.
Last year, as many voters set their sights on the 17-plus candidates running for president, one presidential historian predicted that the 2016 presidential race would shape up to be the “most Jewish” election in the history of the United States.
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will not go to Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature in person.
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