A pair of Monsey, New York, filmmakers have made the first Yiddish movie in years. “I figured without any competition, this would be a great place to start in the film industry,” director ...

Crossing Delancey, her most commercially successful film, grew from Susan Sandler’s play of the same name, which ran in 1985 ...

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Like few other places in the U.S., the economy and culture of Los Angeles have been forged by globalization. Merchants across the region last week expressed profound uncertainty over what threats of a ...

“I was blessed to do a one day part in Darren Aronofsky’s new movie and I spoke only Yiddish, and I must say it was much harder to learn in my seventies than it was in my twenties. It was a ...

The conversation sparked by the book — “‘People Love Dead Jews’ ate my life,” she jokes — turned the novelist and Hebrew and ...

A look at the 1998 romantic comedy Crossing Delancey, starring Amy Irving, now available on Blu-Ray from the Criterion ...

Batter up, Darren Aronofsky is back with a fast-paced thriller that swings for the fences. Aronofsky took the stage at ...

For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?

(One reasonable concession: These Yiddish conversations are rendered ... As a culture reporter, she covers television, theater, movies, podcasts and new media. Andrew Scott on ‘Vanya ...

In McInerney’s telling, Chloë Sevigny, then a young It Girl, was the font from which absolute cool flowed. She was New York.

That movie was directed by the great Muppet-master Frank Oz ... as Lazar Wolf (from VSC’s Season 45 “Fiddler on the Roof”) to play the curmudgeonly Yiddish owner of Mushnik’s Skid Row Florists, surely ...