JetLAG of Cultures
JetLAG music festival is a collision of cultures. Is it Russian? Jewish? American? One Russian Israeli headed to the festival to sort out the confusion.
JetLAG music festival is a collision of cultures. Is it Russian? Jewish? American? One Russian Israeli headed to the festival to sort out the confusion.
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I teach Jewish history in a land haunted by Christ. A land notorious for the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, swamps, gators, plantations, the Duke Boys and Roscoe P. Coltrane, mint juleps, critters and grits festivals.
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A look at the evolving relationship between Jews and blacks in the music business in the 1940s and 1950s. How did the rise of black nationalism and the upward mobility of the Jewish community affect relations between managers and musicians?
Jewish mother and daughter light Shabbat candles in the documentary The Hidden Faith: Dominican Republic, a look at the small Jewish community in this Catholic Caribbean country.
SHIFT HAPPENS takes a look inside the poignant and hilarious journal of a newly-single, young Jewish mother.
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