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ARTICLES BY: Robert Gluck / JNS.org
Wilt Chamberlain’s Jewish Role Models
JNS.org - With the 2013-14 National Basketball Association season set to begin Oct. 29, this month also marks the 14th anniversary of the death...
Arava Institute Looks Back on 20 Years Since Oslo
JNS.org - Sept. 13 marked the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, and Middle East peace remains elusive. But rather than focusing on the...
Did Sukkot Shape Thanksgiving?
JNS.org - Did Sukkot help shape America's Thanksgiving? According to one of the foremost experts on American Judaism, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, the biblical holiday did...
Remembering the NFL’s Legendary Jewish Coaches Sid Gillman and Marv Levy
JNS.org - Growing up in a tough Minneapolis neighborhood, Sid Gillman overcame anti-Semitism to become one of professional football's most important innovators. "Minneapolis, unlike (neighboring)...
German Resistance Group, ‘The White Rose,’ Remembered 70 Years Later
JNS.org - Among the various events in Holocaust history marking their 70th anniversary this year—including the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Nazis' failed assault on Stalingrad,...
Hannah Arendt ‘Banality of Evil’ Theory on Eichmann Revisited On Screen
JNS.org - Fifty years after Hannah Arendt came out with her controversial book, "Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil," a new...
‘Homeland’ Writer’s Work Shaped by Jewish Heritage, IDF Service
JNS.org - Israeli-born writer and director Gideon Raff knows the cost of war. That knowledge, as well as his Jewish background, helped him create...
Leonard Nimoy’s Judaism Informs Photography and Life
JNS.org - Leonard Nimoy says there is a "strong strain of Judaism" in everything he does—including his famous on-screen hand gestures. Best known for his character...
NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach
JNS.org - At the start of each nationally televised game of the 2013 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, ABChas aired a...
The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity
JNS.org - The sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France, the Marx Brothers became zany masters of stage and screen who continue to captivate audiences. But...
Nora Ephron, Famed Jewish Screenwriter, Remembered Through Tribeca Film Festival Prize
JNS.org - For filmmaker Meera Menon, no honor could have been more fitting than winning the inaugural award named after famed Jewish screenwriter and novelist...
Gun Control, Mental Health, and the Holocaust
While the gun control debate intensifies in the U.S., a bipartisan group of lawmakers is pointing to improved treatment of mental health issues, rather than...
Kirk Douglas, Jewish ‘Ragman’s Son’ Turned Movie Star, Still Earning Accolades at 96
Film historian Bob Birchard describes an anti-Jewish prejudice in American culture that existed well into the 20th century, not at the level of the Nazi...
Holocaust Story of ‘War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed’ Continues to Draw Attention
A former New York Times reporter who broke the "Abscam" story on bribery in Congress, Leslie Maitland's latest investigative project was more personal. Maitland's book, Crossing...
