2022-08-26

Ann Bregman says she was, from her earliest days, “a very visual person. I would thumb through any kind of magazine. I loved the illustrations. … I would stare at them and copy almost anything. I would paint and I would draw. It was just there.” It took her the better part of half a century to get serious about […]

The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg has received its largest funding from a governmental agency ever, a $5 million appropriation from the Florida legislature, and during a check presentation on Aug. 16, museum board chair Mike Igel called it “transformational.” He explained in an interview with the Jewish Press later that, “This is going to change us for the […]

A week after a Texas school district ordered a version of Anne Frank’s diary to be removed, it has added the book back into its schools as outraged outside groups prepared to send hundreds of copies of the famed Holocaust text to the district. Keller Independent School District outside Fort Worth had returned “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” as […]

A gala with cocktails, appetizers, music and a feature film will introduce the first Jewish Arts and Culture mini-fest. The fun begins Thursday evening, Sept 15 with the Red Carpet Event and continues through the weekend with even more offerings. This is part of a new format rolled out by the Tampa JCCs and Federation to reimagine its Festival of […]