“Leona,” a marvelous new drama from the young Mexican-Jewish director Isaac Cherem, opens with a mikvah scene unlike any in cinema. A beautiful woman is tastefully photographed in the nude through gauzy, billowing curtains, surrounded by enormous planters of budding white flowers. She is cheered by

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This is ‘Hatikvah’, the Israeli National Anthem and the timeless melody of hope that echoes the spirit of the Jewish people in these trying time We find strength where we can. For me, nothing says unity like the power of collective voices. The harmonies that hit the heartstrings. The raw emotion tha

Netflix. Original release. March 26, 2020. Unorthodox is a German-American drama web television miniseries that debuted on Netflix on 26 March 2020. The first Netflix series to be primarily in Yiddish, it is inspired by Deborah Feldman's 2012 autobiography, Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My...

From their origins in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto, the Rothschilds became the most powerful banking family of the 19th century.From their origins in Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto, the Rothschilds became the most powerful banking family of the 19th century. Four generations of the Rothschild family have si

We love our traditions. Every year we make a tribute to our culture and our faithful dead. On this occasion we present LA CATRINA, based on the version by Susana Harp with lyrics by Eduardo Langagne

JERUSALEM OF GOLD (YERUSHALAIM SHEL ZAHAV) LIVE IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL BY ELIHANA ELIA. Many of the lyrics refer to traditional Jewish poetry and themes, particularly dealing with exile and longing for Jerusalem. Naomi Shemer wrote the original song for the Israeli Song Festival in 1967.

Issachar Ber Ryback (2 February 1897, in Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire (today Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine) – December 22, 1935, in Paris) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter. Rybak was a contemporary of Jewish-Russian artists Natan Issajewitsch Altman, Boris Aronson and Marc Chagall, who transmitted th

(February 2, 1897, Elisavetgrad (now Kirovograd) - December 21, 1935, Paris).Ukrainian Jewish artist. In his most characteristic works joined the features of German expressionism, cubism, primitive elements of traditional Jewish art.