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Rich Tenorio

Rich Tenorio

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Check yourself before you hex yourself: An expert’s guide to the evil eye

Jews call it the ayin hara, Italians know it as mal’occhio, and among Latinos, it’s mal de ojo. It’s one of history’s most durable forces: The...

30.05.2023 50

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Between bloodbaths, Jerusalem’s Crusader-era Christians, Muslims coexisted in peace

When the Muslim diplomat Usama ibn Munqidh visited Jerusalem in the early 12th century, recent history hardly portended a peaceful stay. A few decades...

27.05.2023 20

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Massive history book charts how the Jewish Diaspora reached all corners of the globe

Jacob Judah Leon Templo’s interest in biblical structures defied the imagination. A prominent Sephardic Jew in the 17th-century Netherlands, Leon...

26.05.2023 50

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In Hungarian film ‘Those Who Remained,’ how 2 Holocaust survivors adapt to new lives

Unimaginable losses during the Holocaust help foster an unlikely bond between protagonists in the Hungarian feature film “Those Who Remained,”...

28.04.2023 20

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Musical tribute to ‘Japanese Schindler’ Chiune Sugihara has US debut in Carnegie Hall

As the Empire of Japan’s vice consul in Lithuania during World War II, Chiune Sugihara issued visas that proved life-saving for thousands of Jewish...

19.04.2023 40

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How Orient Express’s Baron Maurice de Hirsch changed the track of Jewish migration

After the United States and Great Britain, the destination that attracted the most Jewish immigrants between the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

11.04.2023 20

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In the Holy Land, clashing Crusaders and Muslims led to a fruitful cultural exchange

WORCESTER, Massachusetts — King Richard I the Lionheart of England and Ayyubid Sultan Saladin of Egypt charge toward each other on horseback. The...

04.04.2023 50

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What’s in a name? Poignant documentary plumbs identity of complex Israeli young man

It’s been over a decade, but Israeli director Tomer Heymann vividly remembers his first encounter with one of his most rewarding students. Heymann...

21.03.2023 20

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A match made in desperation: New Israeli film unveils plight of mail-order-brides

BOSTON — The war in Ukraine has dominated headlines about the country for the last 13 months, but a new Israeli feature film focuses on an...

19.03.2023 40

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Photographer who digitized Dead Sea Scrolls completes new Kirk Douglas archive

Israeli photographer Ardon Bar-Hama has worked with the Dead Sea Scrolls, and now he can add Spartacus to his repertoire. Bar-Hama has made a career...

18.03.2023 30

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In ‘The Talented Mr. Rosenberg,’ a con artist tale so strange it’s hard to believe

From the righteous to the revolting, Jewish Canadian film director Barry Avrich’s documentary profiles run the gamut. But he’s never had a subject...

17.02.2023 30

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The (probable) Nazi plot to kill Churchill, FDR and Stalin all at once in Tehran

With the future of World War II in the balance, the Allied “Big Three” leaders — United States president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British...

04.02.2023 50

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In ‘Alegría,’ Jews, Christians and Muslims come to a boil in a Spanish melting pot

Located on the coast of a rocky peninsula jutting into the Mediterranean Sea, Melilla, an autonomous Spanish port city in North Africa, is home to...

20.01.2023 10

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Qatari manufacturer of cloak gifted to Messi enjoys boom after World Cup

DOHA, Qatar — Watching Sunday’s World Cup final, Ahmed al-Salem was more emotional than most soccer fans when Qatar’s emir placed a black and...

21.12.2022 30

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A first ‘real’ Hanukkah helped an inmate find light during a decade behind bars

As an inmate in the New York State prison system, Hanukkah was a surreal experience for Daniel Genis. Candles were forbidden at most of the facilities...

21.12.2022 40

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How priests, prophets and kings united Israel in monotheism and codified the Torah

When King Josiah of Judah turned 20 years old, he embarked on a dramatic renovation of the First Temple in Jerusalem. During the long reign of his...

17.12.2022 50

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In ancient Yemen, a booming economy sparked cultures rivaling the Greeks and Romans

Ancient Greece and Rome are well represented in museums across the world, but the contemporaneous civilizations of Yemen — including a mysterious...

12.12.2022 60

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Jewish organized crime made jazz noteworthy – but left Black musicians flat

“Jazz Provides Background for Death,” screamed the Associated Press headline following the January 26, 1959, murder of Irving Levy at Birdland in...

29.11.2022 50

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