All the hot stuff from Broadway to MOMA
David Brog, a Harvard-educated lawyer who two years ago became head of the Maccabee Task Force, a campus-based Israel advocacy organization formed by philanthropists Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban, is the author of “Reclaiming Israel’s History” (Regnery Publishing), a new pro-Israel book aimed at college students and “everyone who’s interested in Israel.” Brog formerly served […]
In the fiction category, these are on our radar: Jonathan Lynn’s “Samaritans” (Endeavour) is a satirical novel about healthcare, set at a struggling medical center with a profit-seeking CEO whose last job was at a Las Vegas casino. The author, director of “My Cousin Vinny,” comes from a family of Jewish writers: He is the […]
New Dimensions In TestimonySM USC Shoah Foundation The exhibit uses the latest interactive display and natural language technologies so visitors can engage in “virtual conversations” with Holocaust survivors via their recorded oral histories.Opened Sept. 6 through Dec. 22, Museum of Jewish Heritage, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, mjhnyc.org. Becoming ‘German Jews’ in America […]