Movie Magic: These Two Jewish Movies Hit Me Hard in the Best Way
There’s something nostalgic about sitting in a movie theater as the lights dim and the previews roll, a tub of popcorn in your lap. Going to the movies has always […]
August 21, 2025
April 23, 2025
New PBS Documentary Tackles Artist, Activist And Pulitzer Prize-Winner Art Spiegelman
The name Art Spiegelman is guaranteed to evoke one word for anyone familiar with the artist: Maus. His Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel (to date, the only one to be so […]
January 21, 2025
New Documentary ‘Fights Camera Action’ Explores the Legacy of The Jerry Springer Show
There is a new documentary about the Jerry Springer Show. Springer was a former Cincinnati city council member, mayor, and television news personality. Springer left Cincinnati for Chicago, where he […]
December 13, 2024
Six13 Wishing Everyone ‘A Wicked Chanukah’
A capella group Six13 has chosen two songs from the cultural phenomenon Wicked for the group’s annual Hanukkah song. The group used the well-known hits Defying Gravity and Popular to […]
November 29, 2024
Susan Seidelman Memoir Details Life Of Trailblazing Director
It can be cliché to call someone a pioneer, but for American film director, writer, and producer Susan Seidelman, it’s true. In her memoir, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About […]
November 22, 2024
Funny Girl Hits all the Right Notes
Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a star in the early 20th century with a five-decade career spanning the stage, silver screen, and radio. In her early days, she was often told […]
November 20, 2024
‘The Boy In The Woods’ A Story of Remarkable Holocaust Survival
The cruelty and ugliness of the Nazis and their collaborators is arguably most acutely felt when carried out against children. As The Boy In The Woods opens, Max (Jett Klyne, […]
October 24, 2024
“Kosher” Halloween Costumes
This year, Halloween (the formerly pagan and now American version of Purim, without the awesome we-survived-an-attempted-genocide-and-now-we-eat-triangular-cookies back story) falls at the end of the Jewish holiday season. Some folks like […]
October 23, 2024
‘Rutka’ Sings Defiantly at an Unjust World
“I am writing this as if nothing has happened, as if I’m in an army experienced in cruelty. But I’m young. I’m 14, and I haven’t seen much in my […]
October 23, 2024
14-year-old Shoah victim’s diary inspires world premiere musical at Cincy Playhouse
In 2006, Yad Vashem published a diary in which 14-year-old Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew, wrote about her life for four months in 1943, until her deportation and murder in […]