richards | March 4, 2017
Joseph Cedar, Israels most celebrated film director, returns to our screens next week with his new movie Norman, starring Richard Gere, Steve Buscemi, Lior Ashkenazi, Charlotte Gainsborg and Michael Sheen. The Times of Israel is hosting the films first Jerusalem screening on Monday, three days before the official premiere
richards | March 4, 2017
Responses against the recently published article, "Jewish identity in a pickle" Response to Jewish identity in a pickle, written by IJV McGill Upon reading this article, I was struck by the factual inaccuracy, slander and perversion of Jewish identity that the authors employed to further their agenda as members of Independent Jewish Voices, an organization who criticizes Israeli state policy through a de-legitimization of the Jewish connection to Israel.
richards | March 3, 2017
by Ellie Cohanim Special to NJJN March 2, 2017 If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What I am finding as someone with a foot in each of these communities is that while a significant majority of my liberal Ashkenazi friends are horrified by the election results, and feel part of the resistance movement, many of my Sephardi friends and family are equally passionate in celebration of Trumps win and the implementation of his campaign promises.
richards | March 3, 2017
Ratatouille, as you most likely know, is a Pixar film about a French rat who longs to cook fine food. The climax arrives when the most famous, influential, and reputedly cold food critic in Paris samples the rats cooking. Rather than serve an ornate dish of the kind the critic is accustomed to disparaging, the rat elects to serve ratatouille, the humble vegetable stew
richards | March 2, 2017
Michel Nedjar at his studio in Paris in 2016. (Isabelle Filleul de Brohy) (JTA) Though he may be one of Frances best-known puppet makers, Michel Nedjar insists he does not really create the acclaimed and haunting figures that he calls his Purim puppets. A former tailors apprentice whose lifes work last week went on display at the prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Lille, Nedjar says he merely exhumes his puppets to reconnect to his brethren who were murdered in the Holocaust, to his lover and mentor who died of AIDS and to his Jewish roots.
richards | February 28, 2017
If the Jewish community is to unite during these troubled times, bridge-building is necessary between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities around policy issues and the election of Donald Trump. What I am finding as someone with a foot in each of these communities, is that while a significant majority of my liberal Ashkenazi friends are horrified by the election results, and part of the resistance movement, many of my Sephardi friends and family are equally passionate in celebration of Trumps win, and the implementation of his campaign promises. Many of us Middle Eastern Jews either were born in the Middle East ourselves, as with many Persian Jews, or are perhaps second-or third generation Americans, more common in the Syrian or Iraqi communities
richards | February 27, 2017
Klezmer, the Eastern European musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews, is constantly evolving. Played by musicians called klezmorim at weddings and other celebrations, it has enjoyed a world revival in recent years
richards | February 27, 2017
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday unveiled new directives they said would end discrimination against ultra-Orthodox Sephardic girls, many of whom are rejected from largely Ashkenazi institutions due to their ethnic background.
richards | February 27, 2017
New Guineas multicolor birds-of-paradise, all 39species of which were first photographed in the wild in 2013, served as the inspiration for Goga Ashkenazis fall collection.For her first runway show at Milan Fashion Week, which was hosted at the prestigious Casa degli Atellani where Leonardo da Vinci livedwhile painting The Last Supper, the designer reworked all the signature houses codes, including draping and pliss, for a lineup that was both beautifully crafted and elegant.The birds flamboyant plumage echoed in the hints of bright colorsgreen, turquoise and fuchsiapaired with neutrals on the sumptuous evening gowns that combined pliss chiffon with floating silk charmeuse panels.
richards | February 27, 2017
There are many respects in which being of Jewish descent seems like a wonderful gift. Even as a practicing Catholic, my ties with my ancient heritage are very real
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