admin | June 14, 2020
There may be few places to go, but there certainly are many places to visit online, that is as stay-at-home entertainment choices continue to populate the internet. Maria Rodriquez is shown in a promo video for the Woodbridge-based Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre's "Feria de Sevilla" to take place online 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14.Courtesy of Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre BYOC -- brandish your own castanets
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admin | June 10, 2020
There may be few places to go, but there certainly are many places to visit online, that is as stay-at-home entertainment choices continue to populate the internet. The North Jersey-based Visionaries Film Festival has retrofitted its third annual installment to the internet. Visionaries Film Festival: Quarantine Edition" will be streamed on Twitch from Friday, June 12, to Sunday, June 14
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admin | June 7, 2020
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Photo: Phil Kalina/Flickr. JNS.org Amid the rise in antisemitism in the United States and abroad, President Donald Trump signed the Never Again Education Act last month as part of Jewish American Heritage Month, one month after the 75th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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admin | June 5, 2020
The location and condition of over 350 Jewish heritage sites in Iraq and Syria have been identified by a major new research project. But most of them are said to be ruined or nearly so, often because of neglect or redevelopment work. The 18-month study conducted by the Jewish Cultural Heritage Initiative (JCHI) catalogues and assesses sites from antiquity to the present day in once-vibrant centers of Jewish life in the Middle East
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admin | June 5, 2020
As protests demanding action against racist police misconduct continue across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death, there's no better time to watch films that educate us about civil rights leaders, social justice movements, and events throughout history that echo our current moment. Below, we've listed some documentaries you can stream online, from I Am Not Your Negro to The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, as well as other movies being streamed by local theaters this weekend, like Northwest Film Forum, which is donating all proceeds this month to organizations like the Black Lives Matter Seattle Freedom Fund.
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admin | May 29, 2020
Space Force Steve Carell and his old boss from The Office, Greg Daniels, have reunited for an out-of-this world new sitcom. Playing a four-star general assigned to lead a new mission to the moon, Carell has adopted a gruff delivery and Teflon ego that can handle anything, including an imprisoned wife (Lisa Kudrow) and an eccentric sidekick (John Malkovich)
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admin | May 29, 2020
The stretch of sunny weather in Seattle this week may give way to a little rain on Saturday and Sunday, which should make it easier to pack up your crop circle picnic and hole up in your home with a 4K restoration of the 1982 adventure film The Grey Fox, newly available episodes of The Simpsons, selections from film festivals around the world on YouTube, and other great options streaming through both local theaters and national platforms. Read on for all our top picks for the weekend. AberdeenFilmed on location in the Pacific Northwest, Colton Van Til's debut feature (that he directed at just 19!) follows a woman who tries to find a place in the male-dominated field of sports journalism by exposing the sexual assault taking place within her hometown's high school sports scene.Available via Northwest Film Forum 15th Annual HUMP! Film Festival 2020Our colleagues, the creators of HUMP!, were crushed to cancel their originally planned spring re-screening
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admin | May 27, 2020
WASHINGTON Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada said the US should never condition assistance for Israel even if Israel would move forward with a plan to annex parts of the West Bank. The senator spoke during a Tuesday webinar organized by the Jewish Democratic Council of America in honor of the Jewish American Heritage Month.The webinar addressed a wide range of topics, including antisemitism and the Never Again Education Act she sponsored.Ensuring that Israel remains safe and secure [and] its democracy is safe and secure, it is paramount importance to all of us, she said when asked about the possible outcome of annexation.
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admin | May 27, 2020
Reintroducing Albert Einstein of ArtNEW YORK-May 26, 2020- (Newswire.com) The month of May has been officially designated by presidents of both parties as Jewish Heritage Month, a tribute to the contributions that Jewish immigrants and their descendants have made to this nation. In honor of this occasion, the Wall Street-based Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce has reintroduced the legendary Presidential Collection portraits of US presidents to the general public. The full private collection is now available online for the first time in history, so that it can be viewed and appreciated by Americans far and wide under Coronavirus lockdownat (www.MorrisKatz.org).
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admin | May 26, 2020
At a time that now seems like an entirely different era during the second week of February Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett was informed that she was one of the sixlaureates of Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize this year. She and her husband, New Zealand artist Max Gimblett, were in the middle of a huge project her life is full of huge assignments and projects having been forced to move out of their huge loft on the Bowery on Manhattans Lower East Side, where they had lived and worked for 44 years.
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