Defiance News

Zvi Bielski never thinks of his family as victims at the hands of the Nazis. "I do not consider myself the son of a Holocaust survivor," he told a rapt audience of 220 at Chabad of Stamford Sunday afternoon.

For years, they slept in underground dugouts, unprotected from the rain and snow.

His family's story was revealed by the major motion picture, "Defiance," and yet Zvi Bielski continues to travel the world to tell others how his father and uncles saved more than 1,000 Jews in World War II.

Religious Life Submitted by Sandy Voice on 2009-10-26.   Some Jews in the Holocaust fought back.

Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in an Arthur Miller play. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Lost in Translation, is to make her Broadway debut later this year in the Arthur Miller play A View From the Bridge .

Liev Schreiber and Clay Frohman of Defiance to Speak at Largest Fundraising Event for the Nationa s Memorial to the Holocaust The United States Holocaust Memorial Museuma s 2009 Risa K. Lambert Chicago Luncheon will honor Chicagoans Judy and Bob Appelbaum and Marilyn Malkin and Larry Wolf for their longtime commitment to the nationa s memorial to ...

Shooting progresses on the upcoming film version of Rosemary Sutcliffe's Eagle of the Ninth .

First we had Paris and Paris , and while that short-lived romance fizzled ages ago, we now have yet another same-name coupling, thanks to Taylor Swift and ''Twilight'' and ''New Moon'' star Taylor Lautner.

Print is dead! all the bloggers have been saying for years. So why does New York have seven dailies? Media critics haven't much of an answer.

Richard Griffiths ordered its owner out of the theatre . Kevin Spacey snarled: " Tell them we're busy ." Now Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig have become the latest actors to tackle the toughest theatrical challenge of all: the mobile phone that simply won't shut up.

This weekend is Rosh Hashanah, which I understand from that Jon Stewart stand-up special is the Jewish new year.

At least once a year over the last quarter-century, a respected critic will prove conclusively that films about the Holocaust and the Nazi era have reached a saturation point and that movie and television audiences are suffering from a terminal case of Holocaust fatigue.

I honestly wonder if Gabriel Macht's career will ever recover from his having played The Spirit.

A Miramax Films release presented in association with BBC Films /Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corp., Hopscotch Prods.

The son of Zus Bielski, whose life work was dramatized in the movie 'Defiance,' will speak at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

The small woman at a banquet room podium of The Mansion could easily have been anybody's sweet grandmother, well-coiffed and dressed in proper suit and pearls.

Paramount Vantage is finally being laid to rest after years of wrestling over what shape the division was to take.

With his non- Bond projects, Daniel Craig seems to have taken care to distance himself from the debonair spy, playing an ass-kicking Polish Jew in Defiance , or a completely blank character in the completely blank movie Invasion .

Give the often overlooked Ang Lee some credit: He has ventured where few directors would dare.

Most would think a movie about the greatest concert of all time would be as exciting as the music that was performed there, but "Taking Woodstock" did not satisfy the audiences desire for a truly groovy time.