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Dave Franco at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Jan. 21, 2018. Franco plays a Jewish landlord in “If Beale Street Could Talk.” (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
One of the film’s most powerful — and most talked about — scenes begins with a close-up of the back of the head of a yarmulke-wearing man as he walks up the stairs of a Manhattan apartment.
Read MoreWhen many folks of a certain age and demographic think of pickles, their thoughts likely drift back to memories of the pickle bar at their favorite deli, or of talkative vendors on New York’s Lower East Side.
Read MoreAn exhibit at the National Museum of American Jewish History shows there was a lot more to Rube Goldberg than the machines he famously drew.
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A scene from "The Oslo Diaries" showing Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat after they were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the Norwegian capital. (Saar Yaacov)
HBO’s “The Oslo Diaries” is a documentary that covers four years in the life of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks — starting in 1992 and ending with the election of Benjamin Netanyahu to his first term as Israeli prime minister in 1996.
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Peter Riegert and Amy Irving starred in "Crossing Delancey." Riegert played a pickle shop owner on the Lower East Side. (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)
Amy Irving stars in the film as Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman, a single Jewish woman in her early 30s who’s under pressure to marry and have babies from her hilarious old-world bubbe Ida.
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Founded in 1976, the National Museum of American Jewish History is located at 101 S. Independence Mall East in Center City Philadelphia.
(Photo by Stephen Silver)
Things in Philly have always been a bit more Jewish than you might’ve initially thought.
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