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Many Jewish Independent readers will be familiar with the name Mira Sucharov. Whenever the paper ran her op-eds, at least one passionate letter to the editor could be expected. Agree with her or not on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian…
In Bloomywood, Michael Bloomstein (played and co-created by David Meyers) wanders around Tinseltown asking random people on the street to help him make a movie about his life. (photo from David Meyers) When David Meyers moved from New Jersey to Los…
The character of Guy Nehama, played by Reshef Levi, dreams of becoming a standup comic. (photo from Topic) It took me a couple of episodes, but then I was hooked. Initially, most of the characters on the award-winning Israeli show…
Loolwa Khazzoom in Iraqis in Pajamas’ video for their song “Cancer Is My Engine,” to be released on Chanukah. (photo by Ailisa Newhall) With shared themes of finding light in the darkness, Seattle-area band Iraqis in Pajamas is releasing the video…
Abigél Szoke and Károly Hajduk in the film Those Who Remained. (photo from Menemsha Films) The Hungarian movie Those Who Remained has been making the rounds at international film festivals, including, in recent weeks, the Victoria International Jewish Film Festival. And…
A participant in Yehudit Silverman’s The Story Within process shows off their self-made mask. (photo from Yehudit Silverman) This past spring, Prof. Yehudit Silverman’s new book came out. In The Story Within: Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy, the Concordia University…
These loaded sweet potatoes were satisfyingly filling. (photo by Ingrid Weisenbach) In a word: yum. I tried out four recipes in The Tahini Table: Go Beyond Hummus with 100 Recipes for Every Meal by Amy Zitelman with Andrew Schloss. All…
How does a 1940 Yiddish theatre song – probably based on a passage from the Talmud’s Tractate Bava Metzia – end up becoming a popular piece sung around the world? Over a 75-year period, Aaron Zeitlin’s “Dona Dona” (in Yiddish,…
A still from the documentary Shared Legacies: From the left are Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Maurice Eisendrath and Abraham Joshua Heschel during the march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965. The Victoria Shoah Project held a panel discussion on…
Storyteller Shoshana Litman. (photo from maggidah.com) Shoshana Litman, Canada’s first ordained maggidah (storyteller), kicked off Kolot Mayim Reform Temple’s 2020-21 monthly lecture series on Nov. 1 with a talk entitled Building Jewish Culture Through Stories and Song. “We humans are…
