How true is The Brutalist? The real-life history of Jewish immigrants in post-WW2 America
Historians and experts, along with the film's star and director, discuss how accurate the Oscars' best picture favourite The ...
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How the Virgin Mary Became the World’s Most Powerful Woman
Her life is picked up from hearsay.” Some of the latest Mary scholarship focuses on her as a Jewish mother. María Enriqueta García, in her sacred theology dissertation at the Marian Institute ...
Amy Irving Answers Every Question We Have About Crossing Delancey
The Jewish rom-com is finally joining the Criterion Collection, and according to Irving, “Peter and I have thought of sequels.” ...
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7 Great Film Festivals in the DC Area This Winter
Binge-watch more than 60 feature films, documentaries, shorts, local productions, and animated films at the 26th annual DC ...
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Bible Meditations on Mary
But Greek is a second language for me; however, it is much better than my Latin. You ask about his mother. Well, I remember her as Mary. In fact, I was the first Jewish-Christian writer to put her ...
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Florence Kahn, The First Jewish Congresswoman And The Antisemitism Of J. Edgar Hoover
Her father, Conrad, was a Jewish merchant born in Warsaw who traveled ... As a child of five, Florence’s mother, Mary Goldsmith Prag, also Polish-born, had arrived in California in 1852, having ...
In the era of the tech bro, Bill Gates’ memoir is refreshingly human
In his first memoir, Gates realises the myth of the lonely genius that sustained his younger self is just that – a myth.
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As a Jewish descendant of Carter G. Woodson, I cherish the history of the Black-Jewish alliance
We all have identities. Some can easily be seen while others can’t. Being both Black and Jewish is how I identify, and something I am immensely proud of. My mother, sister and I converted to Judaism ...
Millions flow to wealthy families, pricey private schools under Florida’s supercharged voucher program
A 2023 reform has boosted voucher use by 67%, with one-quarter of state scholarships now going to families in the top income ...
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Two Louisiana executions set back-to-back, possibly the state's first using nitrogen gas
Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...