While making the film “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Natalie Portman had to put her palm in front of her mouth, repeat Hebrew words and feel how the air hit her skin. If Portman felt her breath, it ...

Along with directing, writing and starring in a Hebrew-language film, now out in U.S. theaters, Portman had to learn how to speak like an Israeli housewife in the 1940s. NEW YORK (JTA) — While making ...

Why are many Jewish characters in film and television portrayed with thick New York accents? Linguistically, the Jewish people are usually represented in film and television according to a predictable ...

For most people, the New Yawk accent is something you just know when you hear it. But a group of CUNY researchers is setting out to catalog just what makes the dialect so distinctively New York – and ...

He never saw it coming. Fyvush Finkel, who died Sunday at age 93, had big plans for the future, including an upcoming 94th birthday show at the Metropolitan Room, hopes of seeing “Hamilton” once the ...