Olga Costa was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1913, at the outset of World War I. Her parents, Jacobo Kostakowsky and Ana Falvisant Bovglarevokeylandel, were immigrants who had fled czarist Russia to escape persecution of the Jews. Costa and her younger sister Lya were raised in Berlin, where their fat...

This Christmas, the race is on. Watch the official trailer for The Boys In The Boat, from director George Clooney, starring Joel Edgerton and Callum Turner. Based on the best-selling book about the inspirational true story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at th...

Hundreds of thousands of students, parents, teachers and their supporters took to the streets on March 24, 2018 in a mass show of force in favor of gun control and school safety. More than 800 marches across the U.S. and around the world took place in support of the main March For Our Lives rally in

The Genesis Prize Foundation created "Jews in Hollywood" to honor outstanding achievements by Jewish individuals in film, television, and theater. Because the Genesis Prize honors individuals for their extraordinary accomplishment in a particular field, The Foundation pays tribute to the field of th...

In this seventeen episode of Male Ballet Dancers we present principal dancers from Brazil. We feature Gabriel Figaredo, Grand Peix winner and dancer at the Stuttgart, Germany Ballet, and Victor Gaixeta who was born in Uberlândia, Brazil and trained as a dancer at the Staatliche Ballettschule Berlin

This recording is particularly legendary. Our balance engineer Mitja Krže from National Radio did amazing sound design. The golden generation of the orchestra played this milestone recording with never-seen-before mastery and artistic excellence. Many of those musicians are playing now in the best

Germany’s entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 is the perfect liaison of Nordic metropolitan charm, a husky voice of international class, and a song that will delight Europe. Levina easily eclipsed 2,000 aspiring acts at the German preliminary show and now deservedly represents Germany in the

An art historian assigned to evaluate a trove of Nazi-looted art found in a Munich flat said was "very emotional" when she first saw the works dating from the 16th century to the modern period from artists such as Canaletto, Courbet, Picasso, Chagall and Toulouse-Lautrec. German customs officials di...

Yossi (Ohad Knoller) is the stoic company commander of an Israeli Defense Forces unit on the Lebanese border. Jagger (Yehuda Levi), who got his nickname thanks to his fun-loving rock star appeal, is the platoon leader. They have a secret. When they walk off in the snow together, it isn't because the...