Joel Harber • Jerusalem Israeli chefs have recently conquered the culinary world, but what about all those foods they left behind at home? What do these dishes say about Israel itself? … Continue reading A Land of Milk and Mufletta: what Israeli food says about Israeli culture
Director Woody Allen, featuring Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels Radio Days is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also narrates. The film looks back on an American family's … Continue reading Radio Days
Izzy Posen • London Following the extermination of Europe’s Yiddish speaking Jewry in the holocaust and the assimilation of the remaining Yiddish speaking American Jews, many have considered Yiddish … Continue reading The state of Yiddish in the 21st Century
Click here for film trailer Over a decade in the making, the film raises questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging … Continue reading Final Account
England’s first known Jewish inhabitants came from Normandy soon after the Norman Conquest and by the end of the twelfth century the community in England had been granted a right … Continue reading Jews and the Law in Medieval England
Click here for film trailer Based on Seligman’s short story of the same name, Shiva Baby follows college student Danielle as she is faced with a series of awkward encounters … Continue reading Shiva Baby
Earlier this year, Keith Kahn-Harris published a book called What does a Jew look like?, a collaboration with the photographer Rob Stothard. The book tries to challenge the use of stock … Continue reading The dilemmas of diversity: How do we show what a Jew looks like?
Click here for film trailer Seven lifelong friends – three couples and a newly divorced man – meet for dinner on the night of a rare lunar eclipse. In order … Continue reading Perfect Strangers
Charlotte Salomon, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Sharon Rudahl, and Miriam Libicki, just some of the names of the maverick Jewish women who have transformed the world of autobiographical graphic narratives. They … Continue reading Jewish Women’s Comics: Bodies and Bibles
What has Charlie Parker’s classic bebop tune ‘Anthropology’ got to do with George Gershwin? What was the role of Jewish composers in establishing the great American Song Book and how … Continue reading Jews and Jazz: a melting pot of identities
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