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Exhibition Review: ‘Churchill’s Shakespeare’ at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
'Churchill's Shakespeare' provides visitors with a comprehensive and entertaining look at how the Bard influenced the life and oratorical greatness of Winston Churchill.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Dunkirk’
Dunkirk dismisses the gory details and blood without losing the impact these violent events have on anyone.
Read More »Interview with Alexandra Weinbaum, author of ‘Careful Old Letters: A Jewish Family’s Story’
Q&A with Alexandra Weinbaum, who wrote her very moving book, 'Careful Old Letters,' after discovering a box of old family letters sent from the WWII ghettos in Europe. In Weinbaum's book, voices silenced in the Holocaust come to life.
Read More »Theater Review (Off Off Broadway): ‘Murrow’ by Joseph Vitale
Is mainstream media news investigative journalism or entertainment? Edward R. Murrow would have a definitive answer, expressed in the new play bearing his name in NYC.
Read More »25th Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Tito’s Glasses’
Have your parents been truthful with you about their past?
Read More »Remembering My Dad and The Greatest Generation on Veterans Day
Remembering the Greatest Generation as it dims from memory.
Read More »Book Review: ‘The Hunting Gun,’ ‘Bullfight,’ and ‘Life of a Counterfeiter’ by Yasushi Inoue
Inoue's early works cast a light upon a period of Japanese history, the post-World War Two period, that is little known to most English-speaking readers. They also reveal why he is as venerated as he is.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Fall Down Seven’ by C.E. Edmonson
A moving and dynamic story about a Japanese-American family’s experiences when World War II begins.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Daylight Precision’ by Douglas Lackey
When fighting a war, should a country attempt to behave morally or should the approach be to overwhelm the enemy with such bloodshed that they can never get up again to fight? 'Daylight Precision' reveals the intelligence behind the two philosophical views held by generals during WWII which brought life and effected death on a massive scale.
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