Jewniverse Articles Archive - Page 27 of 174

Israeli Artist Evokes Yiddish Theater With Dead Sea Bridal Dress

It turns out an amazing thing happens to traditional black Hasidic dresses when submerged in the Dead Sea for three months: They turn white and start sparkling with encrusted salt crystals. Over the last few days, the internet has gone wild over “The Salt Bride,” the latest project by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau—and for good […]

By Ilana Sichel

A “Whodunnit” Murder Mystery About Anti-Semitism in Modern Poland

How deep does anti-Semitism go in modern Poland? In the riveting Polish thriller A Grain of Truth, a woman turns up dead in the small village of Sandomierz, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki (Robert Więckiewicz) is put on the case. It turns out the woman was killed with a knife used for Jewish ritual slaughter, and […]

Searching For a Long-Lost Lover, From Israel to the American Open Road

Is That You?, a new film by director Dani Menkin, straddles two rom-com sub-genres: the road trip movie and the film-about-making-a-film movie. Ronnie (Alon Aboutboul), a recently laid-off Israeli projectionist, is given an unusual severance gift of a trip to America, which he uses to find Rachel, a long-lost love from his twenties. Along the […]