Christopher Lewis' book about his father explores the star's Yiddish-speaking upbringing and his role in raising billions of dollars to fight muscular dystrophy.

Saul adapted with the times. You never got the feeling that you were talking to a man who belonged to another era,” theater ...

Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the ...

Arabic is intimate in its distance. It is Semitic, like Hebrew—its twin in syntax and soul. It is embedded in the names of ...

Brandeis, historically a bastion of Jewish education, planned to put its Yiddish program "on hiatus" — until the Yiddish ...

A newly-released Blu-ray set spotlights a vanished era of pre-Hollywood filmmaking. The two-disc set is titled Made in New Jersey: Films from Fort Lee, America’s First Film Town. It was researched and ...

Unlike “kvetching,” which is negative, “kvelling” represents our people’s wisdom for the world at its best.The post This summer, America needs to ‘kvell’ more appeared first on JNS.org.

The reason, by the way, that I didn’t really pay attention to the words all those years is because the melody is just so beautiful that I didn’t really care that I didn’t understand the words.

Mitch Teich speaks with a researcher that studies Jewish life in small towns, and takes a trip to the synagogue in Tupper ...

The organization drew much interest in its previous location in La Jolla but high rent forced it to close last year ...

The Yiddish writer's lost masterpiece, Sons and Daughters, brought back to life, in all its humor and beauty, the Jewish ...

This article includes a quote from the film "Life of Chuck." Although there are no plot details or significant revelations here, this caution is for those who wish to enter the movie without any prior ...