Category Archives: Featured News

The Foundation for Jewish Culture and its league of performing arts presenters have commissioned Monajat (Fervent Prayer), a multimedia concert by composer, singer, and scholar Galeet Dardashti which will tour the United States in September 2011.  Monajat, an evening of … read more »

From President & CEO Elise Bernhardt: I came to the Jewish world five years ago, when JDub was the big cultural kid on the block and the Six Points Fellowship was starting with close to a million dollars in support … read more »

Congratulations to Joseph Dorman and Film Fund grant recipient Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness for being named a Critics’ Pick in the New York Times! “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness” is much more than a documentary biography of … read more »

2009 Film Fund grant recipient Crime After Crime goes into wide release across the country this month, bolstered by a glowing review in the New York Times and the designation of “Critics’ Pick.”  It has been a long and remarkable … read more »

The Foundation for Jewish Culture is pleased to announce this year’s Fellows, selected from a pool of over 100 nominations by a distinguished panel.  The following remarkable artists will share their cultural talents, vision and expertise in order to foster … read more »

The application for 2012 Doctoral Dissertation grants goes live on Monday September 12. Questions? Email us! read more »

We are proud to announce the winners of a special fund for past Kroll Film Fund grantees that provides additional support for distribution, outreach, and audience engagement: Sam Ball’s Joann Sfar Draws from Memory (2010) and Tracie Holder and Karen … read more »

Passover reminds us that we can’t take freedom for granted. It is especially poignant this year, as Middle Eastern nations strive for rights we have long enjoyed in America. While Jewish artists and scholars are free to express themselves here, … read more »

We are proud to announce that Lisa Preiss Fried will be the Program Director for the American Academy in Jerusalem. Lisa moved to Jerusalem in 1982, just two days after she received her BA summa cum laude in Middle Eastern … read more »

The night after officially receiving the Goldberg Prize for Emerging Fiction at the National Jewish Book Awards ceremony, Sharon Pomerantz joined us for a reception at the home of board member Judith Ginsberg and her husband, Paul LeClerc (as profiled … read more »