Alan Zeitlin
ARTICLES BY: Alan Zeitlin
Documentary on Jewish Brothers Separated at Birth Is Stranger Than Fiction
It starts out like a scene from "The Twilight Zone." But even Rod Serling would have thought it too unbelievable to write the fascinating and...
A Brilliant ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish
Why is this Fiddler different than all others? I’ll tell you. Fiddler on the Roof is arguably the most important Jewish contribution to musical theater. Now, the National Yiddish Theatre...
Amazing Story of Jewish Baseball Player and Spy Is Only an Average Movie
The story of a Jewish baseball player risking his life to potentially assassinate the Nazis’ top physicist seems tailor-made for a movie. But "The Catcher...
Readers Should Take a Walk on the Wildes Side
When your father is one of the best immigration attorneys on the planet -- and saves John Lennon from getting deported -- there is pressure to follow...
‘Fauda’ Creators Talk BDS, Critics, and Whether There Will Ever Be Peace
When Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff pitched their TV series about an undercover Israeli unit that hunts Palestinians preparing to launch terror attacks, Israel's Keshet...
Jewish Self-Defense Course Gains Steam, Changes Lives
When Ortal Kindell exited her car a block away from her Brooklyn home, she never thought that she’d be fighting for her life. Out of...
At Tribeca Film Festival, Spielberg Reflects on ‘Schindler’s List’
Shooting "Schindler’s List" took an emotional toll on director Steven Spielberg, but he got by with a little help from a friend. Spielberg told a sold-out crowd...
Brooklyn Man Hopes to Open a New Chapter of Jewish Dating
At many recent Passover seders, sometime after the four questions were asked, a fifth one was posed by a parent or grandparent: “So, when are...
‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Is a Film That Can’t Be Rescued
Screenwriter Gregory Burke and director Jose Padilha have done something absolutely astounding with "7 Days in Entebbe": they’ve taken the story of one of the most...
The Sad Demise of a Landmark New York Movie Theater
On a recent night in Manhattan, people argued about movies for the last time, crunched the last kernels of popcorn -- and lamented the demise of...
Does the Bible Predict a Super Bowl Win for the Eagles?
Rabbi Moshe Grussgott is one of many who celebrated the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles will play in the Super Bowl on Sunday. But he may...
Why Yemen Blues Will Make You Happy
Ravid Kahalani is not normal. That much was abundantly clear a few songs into the recent performances by Kahalani's band --- Yemen Blues -- at Joe’s Pub,...
Singer and Actress Gives Her Voice to Jewish and Black Cultures
Tatiana Wechsler will likely go down as the only actress to belt out a showstopper in a Yiddish musical, and then -- less than a...
Jackie Mason Mocks Al Franken, Matt Lauer and Others in New Stand-Up Routine
Comedian Jackie Mason told a nearly sold-out crowd at B.B King Blues Club & Grill on 42nd Street that the flood of stories about sexual assault is...
