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Plans in Works to Build Human-Rights Center

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Melissa Jacobs, JE Feature

Plans are under way to create a Center for Human Rights Education adjacent to the existing Holocaust memorial at 16th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The City of Philadelphia will be leasing the 10,000 square feet adjoining the Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs to the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, which hopes to make the center a reality. Funding...

Film & Television

A Star With Roots

Could hair stylist Jonathan Antin be the tonsorial Simon "Scissorhands"?

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Michael Elkin

Gonna wash that man right out of your hair? What for? He's a keeper. And not only does the hair-styling industry know it; so does TV. Jonathan Antin's antics are familiar to those who coveted his breezy "Blowout," Bravo's tonsorial treat in which the stylist to the stars ran wild with audiences in pursuit of his daily dish and snips,...

Film & Television

Brief Documentary on the Shoah Takes a Journey to the United Nations

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Aaron Passman, JE Feature

Sara Keisler Greenberg's first film, all of 12 minutes, might be called "The Little Class Project That Could -- and Did -- Make It All the Way to the United Nations." The 22-year-old from Gladwyne is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and a recent graduate of Yale University. Last spring, as a senior, she opted to make a film rather...

Film & Television

Wrestling With Self-Acceptance

Love means never having to say you're ... sumo? With all due respect to the recently deceased author Erich Segal, love -- and self-image -- are a big part of the questions rolled around on the mat in the delightfully sumo-set arena of "A Matter of Size," the opening entry in the Israeli Film Festival, set to unspool on Feb...

Passover

The Story of Redemption

It's what all Haggadahs, old and new, have in common

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Robert Leiter

SPEAKING VOLUMES Every Passover, publishers unveil a string of the "newest" Haggadot, most of them capitalizing on a current societal trend that seeks to make the ancient book "more relevant" for a contemporary audience -- or, at the very least, more accessible. Over the last half-century or so, there have been Haggadot geared to the traditional family, the interfaith family,...