Shira Li Bartov
Police take measures around Stade de France prior to the UEFA Nations League League A Group A2 football match between France and Israel in northern suburb Saint-Denis of Paris, France, Nov. 14, 2024. (Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images)
November 14, 2024, 12:58 pm
Fearing Amsterdam-style violence, Paris police deploy en masse to France-Israel soccer match
Israel warned its citizens not to attend the game, but 150 supporters will attend under police guard.
By Shira Li Bartov
Helen Mirren as Grandmère and Bryce Gheisar as Julian in "White Bird: A Wonder Story." (Larry Horricks)
October 6, 2024, 7:42 pm
‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust survivor who teaches her grandson about kindness
The major motion picture is an adaptation of "Wonder" author R.J. Palacio’s graphic novel of the same name.
By Shira Li Bartov
Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah in "Nobody Wants This." (Stefania Rosini/Netflix)
September 26, 2024, 3:04 pm
How a real-life rabbi coached Netflix about making interfaith relationships realistic
The show stars Adam Brody as a good-looking young rabbi who falls for a non-Jewish woman.
By Shira Li Bartov
Fred Kormis in his studio in the 1980s. (Courtesy Wiener Holocaust Library Collections)
September 10, 2024, 9:03 am
He escaped the Nazis and created Britain’s first memorial to their victims. Now this artist is getting a second look.
Fred Kormis’ art was labeled “degenerate” and pulled from galleries while he and his wife fled Germany.
By Shira Li Bartov
The Hebrew language "Who is Taylor Swift" book was released June 5, 2024; Taylor Swift performs at Groupama Stadium on June 2, 2024 in Lyon, France. (John Shearer/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)
June 19, 2024, 2:51 pm
Why Israel was the first country to get its own version of ‘Who is Taylor Swift?’ bestselling kids book
Simply saying nothing about the Hamas/Israel war has won Swift points with Israeli fans,
By Shira Li Bartov
Spanish President Pedro Sanchez (R) and the prime minister of Ireland, Simon Harris together speak after an April meeting in Dublin in which they expressed their willingness to endorse a Palestinian state. (Moncloa via Getty Images)
May 22, 2024, 2:56 pm
Norway, Spain and Ireland will all recognize Palestinian state
Israel castigated the move as a reward for Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, which launched the war.
By Shira Li Bartov
Jonah Hauer-King as Lali Sokolov and Anna Próchniak as Gita Furman embrace in Auschwitz in the first episode of Peacock's "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." (Martin Mlaka/Sky UK via JTA)
April 26, 2024, 9:02 am
Peacock’s ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events
“The Tattooist of Auschwitz” joins a crop of World War II-period TV series inspired by buzzy bestselling novels.
By Shira Li Bartov
Joey King, as Halina, and Logan Lerman, as Andy, in a scene from “We Were the Lucky Ones.” (Photo courtesy of Hulu via JTA)
March 28, 2024, 12:27 pm
Hulu’s ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ uncovers a Jewish family’s buried past under the Nazis 
The story of a family's "implausible paths to survival"
By Shira Li Bartov
Lublin, Lubartowska 85; Jeszywas Chachmej, Synagoga, Hotel Ilan (Photo by BogTar200917, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2024, 1:48 pm
The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.
The digitally reconstituted library of 850 books may be just the tip of the iceberg
By Shira Li Bartov
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in "Golda." (Sean Gleason/Courtesy of Bleecker Street/Shiv Hans Pictures)
August 30, 2023, 12:41 pm
Zooming in on Yom Kippur War, ‘Golda’ aims to rehabilitate Golda Meir’s image
"She was the scapegoat of the war. The notion was that she was the only person responsible for this debacle, this failure, and it wasn’t true.”
By Shira Li Bartov
Bella Abzug shown in 1979. (Courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress)
August 23, 2023, 9:56 am
Bella Abzug documentary aims to restore the Jewish congresswoman’s legacy
In just six years as a New York representative, she demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam and fought discrimination against women, LGBTQ people and Black Americans.
By Shira Li Bartov
Ruth Handler holds a Barbie that was created for the doll's 40th anniversary party in New York City, Feb. 7, 1999. (Jeff Christensen/Getty Images)
July 13, 2023, 2:24 pm
Is Barbie Jewish? The complex Jewish history of the doll, explained
Barbie was the child of a hard-nosed Jewish businesswoman, Ruth Handler, whose family fled impoverishment and antisemitism in Poland.
By Shira Li Bartov
Lillian Hochman will play Tanya and Matthew Woody will play Fievel in the first musical adaptation of "An American Tail." (Kaitlin Randolph)
April 18, 2023, 10:11 am
‘An American Tail’ musical adaptation hopes its Jewish immigration story will resonate in 2023
Playwright Itamar Moses is betting that children’s theater has a way of refreshing themes adults have exhausted with political discourse.
By Shira Li Bartov
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