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Choreographed by Six Points Fellow Dan Safer and videotaped by our loved-and-lost colleague Andy Horwitz. . Read More »
Culture Shuk 
Have to love synergy
There isn’t usually a lot of corporate-speak buzzing around our heads at the Foundation, but the word “synergy!” — complete with exclamation point — is a new favorite. Read More »
Catch Israeli Choreographer Idan Cohen While He’s in the States!
Everyone walked out of Israeli choreographer’s Idan Cohen’s recent performance and discussion with Dr. Nina Spiegel at American University in awe of the fluidity and energy of Cohen’s dancing. Cohen’s choreography set to Tchaikovsky’s classic Swan Lake is a shock if you are expecting something like the classical ballet. Read More »
Happy Purim!
Did you hit up the Sway Machinery’s Purim spectacular and fundraiser for earthquake relief Saturday night? Their Haitian opening band Djarara had the packed crowd moving. (If that was the band’s first Purim, they must have gotten a pretty cool impression of the Jewish Halloween. Read More »
Idan Cohen at AU
Nearly 100 people made it to American University in Washington, DC last night to see celebrated choreographer and Visiting Israeli Artist Idan Cohen perform and then discuss life and work with JSEP fellow and dance scholar Dr. Nina Spiegel. Photos are up on Flickr ! . Read More »
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in LA
NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater : Applications are now open for writers, editors or producers who report on theater and musical theater, for an 11-day Fellowship at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in Los Angeles (May 17-27, 2010). Read More »
Michal Goldman on the radio
Monday, February 8th, 8: 00 pm: director and Film Fund grantee Michal Goldman will be discussing the making of “At Home in Utopia” on Art and Susan Zuckerman’s “Z” Travel and Leisure Show on Radio WVOX 1460 Learn about the radio show here and listen online: http: //ztravelandleisure.com/the z travel %26 leisure hour.html . . Read More »
CAJM Conference
We’ve just returned from Los Angeles where we attended the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM) conference. Every year the folks at CAJM put on a rigorous and compelling series of panels, plenaries, symposia and events that are sure to engage and enlighten. This year was no different. Read More »
Database of biblical art images launches
Dubbed the first searchable index of fine art and folk images devoted solely to the Bible and its commentaries, “Visual Midrash” has just launched . “Virtual Midrash” is the brainchild of Dr. Read More »
Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
The 14th Annual New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival will take place from February 4–11, 2010, at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street , New York City. The festival encompasses 13 films, including three U.S. and seven N.Y. premieres, and is the only U.S. Read More »
Josh Kornbluth in DC
On Wednesday, march 10 at 7: 30 pm, Josh Kornbluth opens the world premiere of his new show ANDY WARHOL: GOOD FOR THE JEWS? , created with long-time collaborator, Director David Dower, at Theater J in association with Jonathan Reinis Productions. Read More »
Nicole Fix Reading in Boston
The Foundation’s own Nicole Fix has a story forthcoming in Boston College’s Post Road Magazine. She will be a featured reader at the Four Stories Reading Series on Monday, January 25 / The Enormous Room / 7-9pm (music starts @ 6) / 569 Massachusetts Ave / Cambridge, MA, 02139 / (Central Square, Red Line subway stop). Read More »
“Trembling Before G-d” Sparks Discussion at YU
Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film grantee Sandi Dubowski (“Trembling Before G-d”) discusses his impressions of a recent panel called “Being Gay in the Orthodox World” at Yeshiva University: Yeshiva University’s Read More »
See Shlemiel the First at Montclair
From FJC President Elise Bernhardt: My worlds (experimental dance and Jewish culture) have finally come together and I urge you to get to Montclair, New Jersey to witness the collision. Read More »
Tragedy in Haiti
If you are thinking of a way to help the hundreds of thousands of victims of yesterday’s earthquake in Haiti, please consider making a donation to AJWS’s new Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. . Read More »
Shlemiel the First
David Gordon’s klezmer-infused take on I. B. Singer’s Shlemiel the First is being revived at Montclair State University, in association with The National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene. It will run from January 16th through January 24th. Get more details and buy tickets here. . Read More »
IJPA Schmooze 2010
The IJPA (International Jewish Presenter’s Association) Schmooze 2010 Jewish culture conference (Jan. Read More »
Waiting for Armageddon: Panel, Opening, and Reviews
On Thursday, January 8th, the Foundation co-hosted an intense panel discussion at the NYU/Wagner School for Public Policy based on the film. The panel included an evangelical Christian, a rabbi, and David Elcott, now with the Wagner school and before at AJC, among other institutions. Writer Michelle Goldberg moderated with flair. Read More »
The Great Incubator Debate
Over at the Fundermentalist Jacob Berkman is doing a great job of covering the “great incubator debate“. Apparently Dan Sieradski wrote an editorial on JTA arguing that Jewish incubators are not doing enough to accommodate the financial needs and realities of many social entrepreneurs. This has sparked a heated discussion. Read More »
Waiting for Armageddon Playing this Week!
Waiting for Armageddon, a film supported by the Foundation’s Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film, will be playing at Cinema Village in New York City from Friday, January 8th through Thursday January 14th. Read More »
An Education
In Lone Scherfig’s delightful film An Education, the young heroine of 16 takes up with an older man in his thirties who happens to be a Jew. The age thing would seem to be a bigger deal than the Jew thing, but it is 1961 and it is England. Have you seen it? What do you think? . Read More »
Tobi Kahn on PBS
Check out Tobi Kahn on the CBS program, “The Art of the Book” – there’s a segment on his show at MoBiA: . Read More »
Founder of Dallas’ City Ballet reveals Jewish identity
According to the Dallas Morning News: Two years ago, Denise Brown faced a defining moment. It required giving up a lifetime of fear, of relinquishing forever her deepest secret and proclaiming to the world her true self. Read More »
when did food become so fraught?
THE JCC in Manhattan has launched a new series – What Everyone is Talking About – that brings the cultural trends and hot issues of the moment to the forefront in a panel discussion format moderated by Abigail Pogrebin. Read More »
The 5th Annual Sephardic Music Festival
If you are around NYC for the holidays, you don’t want to miss this! MATISYAHU, YAIR DALAL, ELECTRO MOROCCO, DELEON, & DIWON are just some of the many performers who have been confirmed for the 5TH ANNUAL SEPHARDIC MUSIC FESTIVAL which takes place THIS CHANUKAH, DEC 12TH Through the 19TH. Read More »
Park Slope Jewish Center’s Maccabi Film Festival
This December 12 & 13 check out Kroll Fund films Orthodox Stance and Run for Your Life as part of the Park Slope Jewish Center’s Maccabi Film Festival – a celebration of contemporary Jewish Sports Films during Hanukkah. Read More »
Submit to the Washington DC JCC
The Washington DCJCC is now accepting submissions for the 11th annual Washington Jewish Music Festival, to be held June 6-13, 2010. The Washington Jewish Music Festival was established in 1999 to foster a broader appreciation of Jewish culture and to provide the greater Washington DC community an opportunity to connect through music. Read More »
Disturbing the Universe
Disturbing the Universe got a great review in the NY TIMES! Read it here. The film opens today at Cinema Village in NYC. . Read More »
Four Seasons Lodge
Check out the rave review for Four Seasons Lodge in the NY Times! The film opens tonight at IFC Center in NYC. . Read More »
Eli Valley and Sway Machinery at Joe’s Pub
We had a great event on 11/2 at Joe’s Pub. Girls In Trouble played an awesome set, Irina Reyn did a wonderful reading from her Goldberg Prize winning novel What Happened to Anna K. and Eli Valley vs. The Sway Machinery in the Temple of Self-Hatred premiered to much laughter and great acclaim. Here’s some YouTube of it: . Read More »