Actor Samuel H. Levine is at the center of “Minyan” — a first-time narrative feature by director Eric Steel — and the whole film stands or falls on his performance and his ability to hold our ...

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In Eric Steel's understated narrative debut, 'The Inheritance' discovery Samuel H. Levine plays a closeted young man tentatively exploring his identity in Brighton Beach's insular Jewish community.

About 30 people packed into the living room and dining room of the white stucco house Saturday as a Torah scroll was laid on the bimah and the gabbai prepared to summon a kohein for the first aliyah.

I live in one of the most concentrated Jewish communities in the United States, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and I no longer have a daily morning minyan to attend in person. The pandemic ...

On the other side of the old wood fence in the rear of my parents’ Los Angeles backyard I could hear a young man reading from the Torah, and people reciting kaddish, and everything else that ...

Mr. Oppenheimer is the author of “Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood.” During the trial of Robert Bowers, who was convicted of the 2018 murders of 11 ...

This review of “Attica” was first published on October 18. Actor Samuel H. Levine is at the center of “Minyan” — a first-time narrative feature by director Eric Steel — and the whole film stands or ...