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May ’12 Spotlight
Tzivi’s May ’12 Spotlight — on Freud! “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…” Seventy-two years after his death in London at age 83, Sigmund Freud, the quintessential Viennese Jew, is suddenly hot again. This column will focus on three … Continue reading
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April ’12 Spotlight
Nathan Englander came to the Harold Washington Library Center in February to read from What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, his latest collection of short stories. As the translator of New American Haggadah, Englander is … Continue reading
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March ’12 Spotlight
CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH! On Sunday, March 11, Spertus Institute will host the Chicago premiere of Women Unchained, a new “Get-o-nomics 101″ documentary by Skokie filmmaker Beverly Siegel. When the husband of a married woman refuses to grant her a … Continue reading
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Feb ’12 Spotlight
The University of Chicago’s Smart Gallery opens a new multimedia exhibit called Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Artdown in Hyde Park on Wednesday, Feb. 15, and several Jewish artists will be participating, including photographer Laura Letinsky, “New Realism” founder Daniel … Continue reading
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Jan ’12 Spotlight
Photo Credit: Jan Lisa Huttner. When you lit your first candle on Dec. 20, how much thought did you give to your menorah? Maybe it’s a family heirloom, or maybe you recently purchased it online, but have you ever asked … Continue reading
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Dec ’11 Spotlight
Award-winning director Agnieszka Holland, best-known internationally for her Oscar-nominated film Europa Europa, was in Chicago last month to show her new film In Darkness on the Opening Night of this year’s PFFA (Polish Film Festival in America). Poland’s candidate for … Continue reading
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Nov ’11 Spotlight
“Welcome to my world! I’ve been through it all… and I feel I am the luckiest woman on the planet.” So says Joan Rivers on the homepage of her new website www.joan.co. Transforming herself from “Joan Molinsky” (a nice Jewish … Continue reading
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Guide to the 2011 CFIC
October Spotlight: Tzivi’s Guide to the 2011 Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema Despite deep fissures within and turmoil all around (or maybe precisely because of them), Israel continues to send forth an astonishing number of high quality films, many of … Continue reading
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Guide to 47th Annual CIFF
Cinema/Chicago’s 47th annual Chicago International Film Festival opens today (Thurs Oct 6), but alas, it’s not a good year for the Jews. In prior years, Cinema/Chicago has brought us award-winning films from Israel (including Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort, which went on … Continue reading
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Sept ’11 Spotlight
Joseph Dorman’s wonderful new documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness opened at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago and the Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema in Highland Park on Aug. 26, but I predict it will be so popular that … Continue reading
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