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What if there was a cutting-edge news site that delved into thorny social and political issues in the place you live, covering subjects that no one else covers, with writers you’d love to read, if only you could understand them? Until last week, that was the case for nearly 8 million Israelis who may be […]

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What happens when a young Polish aspiring nun learns about her Jewish past? Set in the early 1960s in the Polish countryside, Pawel Pawlikowski‘s newest film Ida, opening in select theaters tomorrow, explores one woman’s confrontation with her heritage on the cusp of taking her vows. The Mother Superior instructs the almost-nun, Anna, to visit her only […]

A new indie Italian comedy will change the way you look at Jewish cemeteries forever—not to mention that boot-shaped country by the sea. Based on a true family story, Felice Nel Box by first-time director Ghila Valabrega begins with Stefano, a Jewish photographer on a journey, stumbling across a dilapidated Jewish cemetery in the northern Italian town of Sabbioneta. Saddened by the thought of […]

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