Why Jews thrived in Hollywood — and what they sacrificed for it
Nov 24, 2022 · Hollywood’s Jews also went out of their way to avoid offending Hitler during the Nazi era, continuing to do business with Germany and largely avoiding featuring Nazis as villains in the prewar years. With the demise of the studio system in the 1960s, Jewish creatives ranging from Mel Brooks to Steven Spielberg to Natalie Portman no longer had ...
The murder — and the hunt for justice - IJN
The murder — and the hunt for justice. Chris Leppek Jun 01, 2023 Local, News 0. S usan Altman remembers the day — the first of March, 2015 — with crystal, and tragic, clarity. It was the day that she learned that her beloved sister, Stacy Feldman, had died in her Denver home. Sisters Susan Altman, left, and Stacy Feldman.
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JFS mobile pantry makes the rounds - IJN
Aug 24, 2023 · Valchant is one of 1,700 individuals a month served with no charge by the JFS Mobile Food and Hygiene Pantry, a mobile service that started in July, 2022, and benefits roughly 20,000 families a year. The mobile pantry has 15 different routes in the Denver area, and each neighborhood served sees the pantry once every two weeks.
$100 million cash bail for accused killer of Tracy Lechner
Jul 6, 2023 · At a bond hearing on June 29, 18th Judicial District Judge Theresa Slade set Lechner’s bond at $100 million, cash only. Slade’s decision came in the wake of a June 20 ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that mandates any defendant charged with first-degree murder is now eligible for bail. The ruling came as a by-product of the state of ...
What happened when a teacher made his students debate the …
Nov 5, 2020 · N EW YORK — On Jan. 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials from the Nazi party and the German government got together in a villa at Wannsee, a leafy suburb of Berlin. They were there to discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”— the deportation and eventual extermination of Europe’s six million Jews.
Joan Nathan’s life — a story told through recipes - IJN
Apr 18, 2024 · Nathan believes the coleslaw — made with orange juice and pickle juice — is a riff on a recipe that first appeared in a 1901 cookbook published by a Jewish woman to help recent immigrants, many of whom were Jewish, integrate into American life. “Sometimes there are familial salads, secret salads, that you want to keep within the family.
It’s Oscar time — Jewi-ish films get nominations - IJN
Feb 1, 2024 · Diane Warren, the Jewish veteran songwriter, received her 15th nomination for penning “The Fire Inside,” from Hulu’s “Flaming Hot.”. Warren has never won an Oscar but did receive an honorary award in 2022. Two movies based on works by authors who have made anti-Semitic comments received some nominations. “The Color Purple,” the ...
I enlisted in the IDF | IJN | Intermountain Jewish News
Sep 4, 2024 · I’m in the IDF Shlav Bet program, primarily geared to haredim (“ultra-Orthodox” Jews) who didn’t enlist in the army at 18, or to religious immigrants who came Israel after the exemption age. The IDF’s Shlav Bet supported daily religious life for soldiers, says recent enlistee Rabbi Chaim Goldberg. The first person I meet.
Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands | IJN | Intermountain Jewish News
Feb 15, 2024 · Three days later, she arrived in Lublin — soon to be an epicenter of Nazi extermination in occupied Poland — with a new identity. She was now Countess Janina Suchodolska, a self-assured Polish aristocrat — and she would soon negotiate the release of thousands of prisoners from the Nazis and save thousands more through deliveries of …