Olivia Haynie | Authors

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Earliest item	12 Sep 2024

Forward Tensions in Israel loom large in these Oscar-nominated shorts 4 Mar

Oscar-nominated short films, "Butchers Stain" and "Children No More: Were and Are Gone," poignantly highlight the persistent societal rifts in Israel followi...

4 Mar

Forward What rabbinic wisdom taught me in the wake of the BAFTA scandal 27 Feb

The BAFTA Awards faced a storm of controversy after John Davidson, featured in a film about living with Tourette Syndrome, involuntarily shouted a racial slu...

27 Feb

Forward How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences 17 Feb

In the midst of tense Black-Jewish relations during the 1970s, the Jewish Museum under Karl Katz's direction, sought to bridge communities by showcasing race...

17 Feb

Forward Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’ 11 Feb

Morris Collins' novel "The Tavern at the End of History" explores the tensions between memory and morality through a story about art theft, the Holocaust, an...

11 Feb

Forward In ‘Black and Jewish America,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr explores the history of Black-Jewish partnership and conflict 2 Feb

The PBS series "Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History," narrated by Henry Louis Gates Jr., investigates the complex historical relationship between...

2 Feb

Forward He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead 25 Jan

Gerd Pips Phillipsohn, born to a Jewish father and an Aryan mother in Nazi Germany, chose to embrace his Jewish identity through a bar mitzvah, despite the p...

25 Jan

Forward She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp 22 Jan

Marisa Fox's journey in understanding her mother Tamar Fromer-Fox's hidden past reveals a powerful, unspoken history. Tamar, originally named Alta, concealed...

22 Jan

Forward A Jewish lawyer sued Henry Ford and changed how we think about hate speech 20 Jan

Aaron Sapiro, a Jewish lawyer and labor leader, made history by suing Henry Ford for libel in a case that became America's first modern hate speech trial. Sa...

20 Jan

Forward How the Israeli police’s first trans volunteer fought bigotry on the force 18 Jan

"The First Lady" documentary provides an intimate portrayal of Efrat Tilma, the first trans volunteer with Israel's police department. Through a mix of archi...

18 Jan

Forward How Alvin Ailey’s 'Revelations' evokes Yom Kippur for me 16 Jan

Olivia Haynie explores the parallels between Alvin Ailey's renowned dance work "Revelations" and the Jewish observance of Yom Kippur. Despite the overt Chris...

16 Jan