By ERIC ROZENMAN (JNS) – “Mike Wallace is on the phone and he sounds angry,” a colleague said as she transferred the call. It was the early 1990s, and I was managing editor of The Miami Jewish Tribune. We’d just published an editorial urging a local synagogue to rescind its decision to honor Wallace. Wallace Demands Explanation Wallace, of course, was the […]

SCHENECTADY– The Schenectady Jewish Film Festival, eight films that will be screened at the Schenectady Jewish Community Center between the months of September and May will begin on Sept. 15. Each film will also be accompanied by a discussion usually at a Saturday evening showing and films will be shown at the Center, 2565 Balltown Rd., Schenectady. Saturday evening screenings […]

SARATOGA SPRINGS–Congregation Shaara Tfille/The Jewish Community Center of Saratoga Springs will present the documentary “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People” on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m.  It will be held at the synagogue, 84 Weibel Ave. as part of the 2019 Saratoga Jewish Cultural Festival. Pulitzer, (1847 – 1911), a newspaper publisher, who also served briefly as a Democratic Party congressman […]

SCHENECTADY–Yom Ha’Atzmaut will be celebrated at the Schenectady Jewish Community Center with an Israeli dinner and a screening of the film “Golda’s Balcony, The Film” to commemorate Israeli’s Declaration of Independence in 1948. In addition to the film, Israel’s 71st Independence Day will be noted at the Center with an Israeli dinner featuring live music and food such as shawarma, […]

SCHENECTADY–In honor of what would have been the late Golda Meir’s 121st birthday, the Schenectady Jewish Community Center, 2656 Balltown Rd., Schenectady, will host the annual Joint Rosh Hodesh Women’s Program and feature a Golda Meir theme. The event on Monday, May 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. is co-sponsored by Rosh Hodesh groups from Congregations Agudat Achim, Beth Israel, […]

SARATOGA SPRINGS–Saratoga Jewish Community Arts will present the film “Night Will Fall” in commemoration of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance) Day on Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. at Temple Sinai, 509 Broadway, Saratoga Springs. A reception and panel discussion will follow. In 1945, the British army commissioned film units for a documentary on the liberation of Nazi concentration camps that […]

The film includes commentary from professionals of two Middle East Forum Education Fund grantees, the Center for Security Policy and the Security Studies Group. It also includes speeches delivered at MEF’s Qatar: U.S. Ally or Global Menace conference by Congressman Jack Bergman and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Watch it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFimy3QXqSc

ALBANY –Congregation Beth Emeth has announced two upcoming programs for its weekly Wednesday lunch and learns held at Beth Emeth, 100 Academy Rd., Albany, from 12 –1:30 p.m. Stereotypes: Fact or Fiction? The Myth of the Jewish American Princess will be the topic of a lunch and learn on March 27, led by Rabbi Scott Shpeen, spiritual leader of the […]

By LIOR ZALTZMAN This article originally appeared on Alma. When “Green Book” won the Academy Award for best movie on Sunday night, arguably the most coveted prize of the ceremony, “BlacKkKlansman” and “Do The Right Thing” director Spike Lee stormed to the back of the auditorium and kept his back turned for the entire speech. The gesture culminated a controversy around the movie, which […]

(JNS) – Israeli government officials congratulated Israeli director Guy Nattiv for winning the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film on Sunday—the first Israeli Oscar in 41 years. “Skin,” a 20-minute movie, focuses on hate crimes and their impact on a skinhead and two young children, one black and one white. The elated Nattiv ascended the stage to accept his […]