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After Pro-Palestine Campus Protests, State Senators Call Hearing on Antisemitism
Jewish, Muslim students report more hate since October 7
"...claimed again and again that protesters aimed to intimidate Jewish students and faculty...."

May 15, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

10,000 Texans Call for Cease-Fire in Gaza
Massive show of support at state Capitol for Palestinians
"...Many Jewish Texans attended to send a message that the Israeli..."

Nov. 13, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

The War on the Walls in Yuliya Lanina's Mother/Land
The UT professor processes the personal impact of the Ukrainian invasion in her new multimedia installation
"...for Lanina and her family. "One half is Ukrainian Jew and one half is Russian Jew, and Jews are..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Very Jewish Horror in Attachment
Filmmaker Gabriel Bier Gislason discusses cultural authenticity
"...understanding are both rare and fascinating. Take, for example, Jewish horror films: Jewish horror was a pivotal part of..."

April 5, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
"...the song was in Yiddish and written by a Jew, it wasn't so popular anymore...."

Dec. 23, 2022 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Noah Segan Is Dad and Loving It in Blood Relatives
The actor and filmmaker on Judaism, vampires, and cool cars
"...writer/director/star Noah Segan. In it he plays Francis, a Jewish vampire traveling the American back roads who discovers he's..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Armageddon Time
James Gray's note-perfect depiction of moral failings in Eighties NYC
"...lives in Flushing, Queens, with his middle-class, liberal, first-generation Jewish parents (Hathaway and Strong, both superb), is coming into..."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Businesses Host Fundraising Events for the People of Ukraine
Get some food or even a tattoo for a good cause
"...Din Ho Chinese BBQ, Better Half Coffee, Holdout Brewing, Jew Boy Burgers, Garbos, Pedrosos, Fil n Viet, Little Brother..."

March 3, 2022 Food Post by Sage Dunlap

Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, January 21-27
"..."Apparently, I've been typecast: I'm a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew." If Christian came to me for astrological advice right..."

Jan. 21, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2021
In a lost year, retrospectives and reprints with new context were comfort reads
"...that resonated most with me this year had decidedly Jewish themes. Most entertaining was Joshua Cohen's hilarious, "based on..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Southeast of Austin, an Unarmed Immigrant's Killing Galvanizes a Quest for Justice
Why did Adil Dghoughi die?
"...been others in history. ... The Nazis, who destroyed Jewish cemeteries and monuments. The Red Guard, who destroyed 30..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...their latest single. An homage to late lead Silver Jew David Berman, the track's surrealist haunted mall imagery recalls..."

June 25, 2021 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week
What we’re listening to
"...Mark Rubin, now based in New Orleans, carves his Jewish heritage into American roots in a way that twines..."

May 28, 2021 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Fighting Stress Through Fighting Sports
A Krav Maga devotee on the curative power of punching a bag
"...available to me was developed by an Eastern European Jew to beat back Nazi street thugs in the 1930s...."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

AGLIFF Presses Play on The Capote Tapes
LGBTQIA+ film festival announces online lineup for 2020
"...Premiere Fredy Hirsch was born in Germany, a proud Jew and openly gay man he we 19 years old..."

July 8, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Jay Trachtenberg's Top Books of 2019
From the social upheaval of the Sixties to the double life of an intelligence agent to the secular past of an Orthodox rabbi, splits resolved into memorable books
"...clash of modern and traditional. As a former Orthodox Jew, Englander writes authoritatively of Larry, a secular Jew somewhat..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Top 10 Austin Veggie Burgers
All the taste, none of the meat
"...6) JEWBOY BURGERS Meatless JewBoy Some might argue that two green..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Austin Film Festival Witnesses The Obituary of Tunde Johnson
Time travel thriller will be opening night film
"...turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew sets out on a quest to find someone who..."

Oct. 17, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Judge's "Horrible Bigotry" Not Enough to Force New Trial
The 5CA has denied Randy Halprin’s plea as his death date nears
"...racist and anti-Semitic bigot who described Halprin – a Jewish man – as 'that fuckin' Jew' and a 'goddamn..."

Oct. 4, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Death Watch: As Execution Pace Quickens, a 30-Day Stay for Barbee
Meanwhile, Randy Halprin loses 5CA appeal and Rodney Reed supporters fight for justice
"...scheduled for execution on October 10. Halprin, who is Jewish, filed an appeal with the court on September 6..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Point Austin: Dispatches From Beyond Deadline
New book collects final reports of those who gave their lives
"...of theologian Martin Niemöller ("First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was..."

April 12, 2019 News Column by Michael King

To Dust
Two men and a pig become more than porcine comedy in this tender and cunning discussion of death
"...drama laced with grim humor, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew (Röhrig) obsesses about the rate at which his deceased..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Storied Austin Drummer Hunt Sales Gets His Shit Together
Forty years of junkiedom ends in debut solo album for Tin Machine drummer
"...the lower knuckles of his right hand spells out "Jew," with a Star of David punctuating the pinky finger...."

Jan. 25, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Luv Doc: Embarrassing Stupidity
Yes, there have been some mulligans
"...like 20 albums, but they never killed a single Jew. If a Jew died in an oven because of..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Column by The Luv Doc

Chronicle Recommends: Seasons Beatings
Our top picks for holiday movies with a twist
"...Hammer, a comedy in which a Super Fly-styled Orthodox Jew (Adam Goldberg) must rescue Chanukah from Santa’s evil son..."

Dec. 6, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Studio 54
The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub
"...we do learn that Schrager’s father, nicknamed Max the Jew, used to work for gangsters and was known as..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playback – Kinky Friedman: Between the Lines
Kinky Friedman's first album of original songs in 35 years: "How hard could it be?"
"...since 1983's Under the Double Ego. Devoid of goofball, Jew-sploitation and envelope-pushing ballads, the 12-track LP wells up with..."

June 29, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Southwest Theatre Productions’ If I Forget
While the play is a compelling kitchen-sink drama, this staging doesn't quite reach the promise of the material
"...a problem, especially for Michael (Luke Hill), an atheist Jew and college professor with some radical ideas about Israel,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Austin Playhouse’s The Immigrant
The company delivers a powerful and timely account of foreigners making a new home in the U.S.
"...Immigrant is the story of Haskell Harelik, a Russian Jew who leaves the motherland in the early 1900s for..."

Jan. 12, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Holiday Viewing: The Shop Around the Corner
The essential Jimmy Stewart Christmas movie (no, not that one)
"...Hitler’s march to power deeply affected Lubitsch, a German Jew; his follow-up to The Shop Around the Corner, 1941's..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

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