The American Jewish community has been on high alert for years. In the half-decade since 11 Jewish worshippers were murdered during a Shabbat service in Pittsburgh, congregations across the country have installed security cameras, hired armed guards, and attended active shooter training sessions. The tension,
You can never have too many allies, especially when some are the biggest entertainers on the planet. I witnessed that in the aftermath of Feb. 14, 2018, when a gunman rampaged through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and murdered 17 people. I
I was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto to a traditional French, Jewish and Moroccan family. My parents emigrated from Morocco with my older brother in tow in the mid- to late- 1960s. As with so many immigrant stories, they came with very little
CANNES — Televisió de Cataunya (TVC), best known abroad for its biggest linear channel, TV3, will re-launch on Oct. 30 as 3CAT, the name also of its new AVOD platform, bowing as the driver of the most far-reaching digital makeover of any TV operator in
I got my nose in around about 4th grade. Before then, I had more of a little button nose. Adorable. But from the time I was 10, the pointy chin I had pretty much since I could crawl was joined by what I think of
My name is Gene Simmons. I’m Jewish. My mother, Flora, was 14 years of age when she was in the concentration campsof Nazi Germany. Hate, which knows no boundaries, happened on a scale humanity could never imagine during World War II … to Jews, Catholics,
“The Kitchen” co-director and co-writer Daniel Kaluuya and “Polite Society” writer-director Nida Manzoor are among the emerging talents recognized at the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) New Talent categories. Both have been longlisted twice, in the debut director and debut screenwriter categories. In all, 20 fiction
There was once a treacherous year in the spread of Jewish libels. Not surprisingly, violence against Jews rose during this time. There were depictions of Jews with enlarged noses and horns, bloodthirsty baby-killing Jews, Jews who dipped their enemies into molten gold, Jews depicted as