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Plan A focuses on questions of justice, revenge, redemption, and healing that are as relevant today as they were in 1945. The movie opened throughout Israel on January 11. 

Israel is a small country where everyone knows someone who has suffered a loss during this painful war. It is a war that, today more than ever, we are fighting not only for Israelis but for all Jews.

A number of films at the Jerusalem Jewish Film Week attempt to illuminate antisemitism throughout history and may help people better understand its current incarnation. 

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

The documentary will premiere at the 35th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival.

In Habima Square, hundreds joined a hastily organized Ne’ila prayer service with no divisions, just astonishment

The annihilation of an entire Jewish civilization in Lithuania is an indelible stain on that nation’s history. However, I firmly believe that memories of Jewish Lita must endure.

Because I didn't like two hot books.

'Palestinian Yiddish: A Look at Yiddish in the Land of Israel Before 1948,' opens this week, shows how the old language survived in the new Israel - sometimes hiding in plain sight

At the beginning of the 20th century, Yiddish and Hebrew were rivals to become the language of the future Jewish state.