I don’t need to remind anyone that 2020 has been a strange year. Some of those stuck at home taught themselves to bake sourdough. Others took up knitting. Many spent an extra hour a week waiting in socially distanced lines outside grocery stores. Me? I wrote a 159-page radio play script about Holocaust victims who […]
Germany’s highest court has upheld the guilty verdict of a 99-year-old woman who was found guilty of aiding and abetting murders in a Nazi concentration camp. Leading representatives of German Jewry welcomed the decision announced by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday. “It’s not about putting her behind bars for the […]
The German media portrayed the trial as possibly the last verdict against the participants of the National Socialist death machine, since most of those involved are either dead or no longer fit to stand trial due to their advanced age. For most of the post-war years, German prosecutors had to prove that concentration camp guards […]
It’s rare, but sometimes a first-time director makes a nearly perfect film – and that’s the case with Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow,” which opened in theaters across Israel on August 15. Of course, it’s rare for someone to make a film like this, but Cortellesi, best known in her native Italy as a […]
