Wealthy Lebanese banker and film producer Antoun Sehnaoui, a Christian and staunch Zionist, stepped forward to launch the U.S.-Israeli Opera Initiative.
With political theater playing out in unruly ways throughout Congress, the administration and the court system, it’s no surprise that politics will be a theme in a number of productions with Jewish and Israeli themes running this fall.
With political theater playing out in unruly ways throughout Congress, the administration and the court system, it’s no surprise that politics will be a theme in a number of productions with Jewish and Israeli themes running this fall.
For Irish-American journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, the stories of Oct. 7, told by the survivors themselves, must not be ignored or forgotten.
The Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum’s newest exhibit, “Blacklisted: An American Story,” examines how a singular moment in American history continues to resonate more than 75 years later in current policies and attitudes.
Although Mardy Shualy has been artistic director of JxJ, the Edlavitch DCJCC’s signature Washington Jewish Film and Music Festival, for just six months, he leaped into the job.
