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In an unmissable film, a son faces up to his Jewish mother’s mental illness
Agnes Jaoui and William Legbhil star in ‘This Is My Mother.’ Courtesy of New York Jewish Film Festival
By Dan Friedman
January 27, 2025
Julien Carpentier’s intimate...
What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
An image from an Anne Frank exhibit at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. Photo by Getty Images
By Julia M. Klein
January...
He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn speaks at the 2009 Sundance festival. Photo by Getty Images
By Jim Sullivan
January 25, 2025
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just...
Meet the Syrian artists shaping the future of a new Syria
One night last month, Syrian artist Mohamad Hafez couldn't sleep. A few days had passed since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad on 8...
For Finland’s tiny Jewish community, a complicated history of fighting for the czar and the Nazis
The Jewish school of Helsinki, 1895 Photo by Getty Images
By Jon Kalish
January 24, 2025
Many of the 1,500 Jews who live in Finland today can...