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TV “The Thomashefskys: Music & Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater”
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome! Tonight we’re here to tell you a story. It’s the story of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, two kids from little shtetls in the middle of the… Read more
Israeli Film Festival opens at Wesleyan
If you missed “The Dolphin Boy,” the first film screened in The Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival, not to worry: There are still five films left to see… Read more
Women, Music and Art Focus of Greenberg Center series
Women, Music and Art Focus of Exhibition, Lectures, Concert and Workshop February 12 – September 1 The exhibition “Veiled Women: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Women in Israel,” will kick-off the… Read more
The beat goes on: Maccabeats in Orange & W. Hartford
It took only six days for Congregation Or Shalom in Orange to sell out all 400 tickets to the shul’s Dec. 18 concert featuring the popular Yeshiva University a capella… Read more
Video: “Ya’allili!”
Shopping in a supermarket is rarely an exciting experience. But when the band Eighth Day took to the aisles of the Pomegranate kosher supermarket in Brooklyn, N.Y. to create a… Read more
Renowned historian Judith Wechsler to receive film award
By Cindy Mindell ~ HARTFORD – On Nov. 19, noted scholar and filmmaker Judith Wechsler will receive the fifth annual Miller Reel Jewish Woman Filmmaker Award, presented by the Charter… Read more
Film: History speaks loudly in ‘Nuremberg’
Stuart Schulberg, a Jew working for the Hollywood director John Ford in the OSS film unit at the end of World War II, was given the mission of finding German-shot… Read more
Award-winning “David” opens Jewish Arts & Film Festival in Stamford
STAMFORD – “David” is a new indie film about two 11-year-old boys living in Brooklyn, one Muslim and one Orthodox Jewish, who become friends. Recently awarded the Ecumenical Prize at… Read more
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to speak in W. Hartford
WEST HARTFORD _ Wolf Blitzer, lead political anchor at CNN and host of “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” will give a talk at the University of Hartford on Sunday,… Read more
Film: ‘Sholem Aleichem’ will open Sept. 2 at Real ArtWays
(Ed. note: After the Ledger went to press last week, Real ArtWays in Hartford announced that it had moved up the opening date for the acclaimed documentary film “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing… Read more
