Arts and Entertainment
News about Jewish and Israeli films, television shows, theater and other celebrity news
Cleveland State University is exhibiting the Indian American Jewish artist, who draws inspiration from comic books, pop art, Bollywood, Indian folk imagery, Persian miniatures and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts.
A Jewish film festival in Philadelphia marks the animated movie’s anniversary.
Much darker than they seem, Robert Russell’s new photorealistic paintings shed light on little-known Holocaust history.
A Change.org petition has drawn more than 2,000 signatories.
“The Ice Cream Man” recounts a mass strike by workers in Amsterdam during World War II.
Simhah Viterbo’s husband and son were rabbis; her dad might have been one, too.
The Israeli musician, dubbed the “hip-hop violinist,” will perform with a gospel choir.
“The irony should not be lost on anyone,” said the group’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
The Jewish singer will honor Irene Gut Opdyke, who saved 12 Jews from certain death, stowing them in a Nazi commander’s basement.
Charles Goldberg also finds the therapeutic-musical mix a religious experience.
“Good art can definitely happen to bad people,” Karen Swallow Prior of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary tells JNS.
The works were either taken under pressure or retained after the war, when they were supposed to be returned.
