Currently Browsing: December 2010
1/16/11 Update: MAZEL TOV to Paul Giamatti, winner of the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical. How great to see a real mensch get his just desserts! From Jan ’11 Spotlight: The 2011 awards season is heating up! Three actors playing Jewish characters have been nominated for Golden Globes: Jesse Eisenberg as […]
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: The 2011 awards season is heating up! Three actors playing Jewish characters have been nominated for Golden Globes: Jesse Eisenberg as “Mark Zuckerberg” in The Social Network (a loose adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction best seller The Accidental Billionaires); Paul Giamatti as “Barney Panofsky” in Barney’s Version (based on Mordecai Richler’s last […]
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: The 2011 awards season is heating up! Three actors playing Jewish characters have been nominated for Golden Globes: Jesse Eisenberg as “Mark Zuckerberg” in The Social Network (a loose adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction best seller The Accidental Billionaires); Paul Giamatti as “Barney Panofsky” in Barney’s Version (based on Mordecai Richler’s last […]
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: The 2011 awards season is heating up! Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (one of the documentaries on this year’s Oscar shortlist) will have its Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning Jan 14. It’s a fascinating film, but unfortunately it gets too bogged down in conspiracy […]
1/16/11 Update: MAZEL TOV to Paul Giamatti, winner of the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical. How great to see a real mensch get his just desserts! From Jan ’11 Spotlight: The 2011 awards season is heating up! Three actors playing Jewish characters have been nominated for Golden Globes including Paul […]
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: Saturday Jan 15, the KFAR Jewish Arts Center kicks off its 2011 calendar with a visit from New York-based Klezmer band Golem. Although I’ve never heard them play live, I have three Golem CDs in my collection (Citizen Boris, Fresh Off Boat, & Homesick Songs), and I love them all. “Bold and […]
From Jan ’11 Spotlight: Did you know that much of the funding for the original Hull-House campus came from Sears, Roebuck & Company President Julius Rosenwald (either through donations and/or matching grants)? Did you know that Rosenwald also played a personal role in helping Jane Addams become the first American woman to receive a Nobel […]
The 2011 awards season is heating up! Three actors playing Jewish characters have been nominated for Golden Globes: Jesse Eisenberg as “Mark Zuckerberg” in The Social Network (a loose adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction best seller The Accidental Billionaires); Paul Giamatti as “Barney Panofsky” in Barney’s Version (based on Mordecai Richler’s last novel); and Kevin […]
Gilbert Achcar came to University of Chicago’s International House on Nov 15th to read from his new book The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. Raised in Beruit and educated primarily in France, Achcar is currently professor of international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. […]
Thanks to ARZA & AZM for co-sponsoring last night’s screening of Ushpizin at Temple Chai in Long Grove. And special thanks to all who participated in the post-screening Q&A session. Click HERE to read some reflections by Ushpizin director Gidi Dar (posted in my JUF News column way back in March ’06 when Ushpizin stars Shuli and Mali Rand came […]