Award-Winning Filmmaker Amanda Kinsey Chronicles Jewish History of the American West
The Denver-based director of “Jews of the Wild West” will speak May 16 at a Library of Congress screening of the documentary.
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Zaydie Rode Side-Saddle: Among those featured in "Jews of the Wild West" is cattle buyer and seller Robert Lazar Miller, shown here around 1932 with his grandson at the Denver Stockyards. Miller immigrated to Colorado from Lithuania in 1881. (File photo, Beck Archives, Special Collections, University of Denver Libraries)
The Denver-based director of “Jews of the Wild West” will speak May 16 at a Library of Congress screening of the documentary.
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Shlomo Cohen: "The vibrant colors are in most of my pieces. I play a lot with lightness and darkness of those vibrant colors to create a three-dimensional feel. All of my pieces are connected, but the subjects are different." (Provided photo)
Jmore recently spoke with artist Shlomo Cohen about his exhibition “Dream in Color” at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts’ Meyerhoff Art Gallery.
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Actor Brett Gelman recently proposed to his longtime girlfriend, musician Ari Dayan. (Screenshot via Instagram via JTA)
The “Stranger Things” actor informed the world of his impending nuptials in an Instagram post from Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Jamaica Farewell: Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte is shown here in a recording studio, circa 1957. (Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
Jews played a major role in the life and career of the groundbreaking entertainer and human rights activist, who counted “Hava Nagila” as one of his earliest hits.
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Directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Lang, “March ‘68" focuses on two young students, Hania and Janek, who fall in love in the midst of social turmoil and antisemitism in Warsaw in the late 1960s. (Provided photo)
The 35th annual William & Irene Weinberg Family Baltimore Jewish Film Festival will kick off on Tuesday night, Apr. 25, and runs through May 28.
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Beth Ellen Fromm: "The fact that I was nominated, and then approved, to receive a star totally surprised me. This is something I never dreamed about, but will treasure!" (Provided photo)
Executive director of the Desert Film Society since 2002, Fromm joins the likes of Liz Taylor, Elvis, Sinatra and Rudolph Valentino.
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Yeshivas Mekor Chaim student Baruch Zev "BZ" Openden, creator of the mural, is flanked by Dr. Aziza T. Shad (left), Sinai's chief of pediatrics, and Mary Jane Hebert, director of the hospital's department of pediatrics. (Photo by Peter Blair/LifeBridge Health)
Although created two years ago, BZ Openden’s sculpture was only recently celebrated at the Herman & Walter Samuelson Children’s Hospital.
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At the J Live event were Martha Hoffman (JLive Committee), Phyllis Attman, Leonard Attman, Joe DeMattos and his son, Hayden. (Photo by David Stuck)
Following the public’s first official peek at the Gordon Center for Performing Arts, guests sang and danced along to the sounds of “Motown Forever.”
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Japanese-American-Israeli cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper has a special personal connection to the Sugihara story. (Vardi Kahana via JTA)
On Apr. 19, Japanese-American-Israeli cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper will perform an original piece of music at a Carnegie Hall concert to honor the legacy of Chiune Sugihara.
Read MoreThe Baltimore area is brimming with events and happenings this spring to help nourish the soul, inform the mind and tickle the muse.
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Left: Cardi B is one of the musicians featured in the BMA's new exhibition, "Contemporary Art in the 21st Century." (Courtesy of the artist Hassan Hajjaj and Yossl MlloGallery). Right: This teapot is just one of 500 works of art in the Walters' new exhibition, "Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World."
This spring offers the chance to explore new exhibits at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and more.
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