Famed poet Chaim Nachman Bialik infused the Hebrew language with fresh artistic life, giving it a renewed sense of flexibility and emotive power. Filmmaker Yair Qedar chronicles Bialik’s work and life...
To the world around her, Judy Feld Carr was a mother of six, a musicologist, and a synagogue president in Toronto. Clandestinely, she was a one-woman secret organization, who succeeded in enabling 3,2...
Accompanied by his filmmaker son Adam, actor Leonard Nimoy returns to his native city of Boston as he shares memories of his childhood and the start of his acting career.
A loving tribute to a forgotten pioneer of the golden age of television. Starting out as a Runyonesque character actor, Sheldon Leonard went on to produce some of the most beloved and groundbreaking s...
Yitzhak Rabin had an exciting and emotional journey from being a shy redhead working the land to becoming one of the most important Prime Ministers in the peace process. From innumerable hours of cand...
Ellen Burka was a typical young girl in prewar Amsterdam. After the Nazis occupied the city, she and her family were deported to Westerbork and Theresienstadt, where she met her future husband. After ...
Ever wonder who the Isabel Bader Theatre was named for? Here is the answer. Isabel and Dr. Alfred Bader’s love began with a chance meeting aboard a ship from Quebec to London. Despite insurmountable o...
"You won't read the famed Yiddish language author the same way again" (Hollywood Reporter). In the mid 1960's, Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer established an army of more than forty f...
Bernard Natan was running France's most successful production company, Pathé, in the 1920's and 1930's and was essentially one of the fathers of French cinema. Why has his name been completely erased ...
How did Saul Holiff, a Jew from London, Ontario, become the manager of the legendary Johnny Cash? And why, at the height of Cash’s career, did Holiff quit managing him? Following his estranged father ...
