Shavuot starts tonight and I wish you Chag Sameach! with a new Chabad video about what the festival is. I found the video on Jacob Richman’s extensive website’s Shavuout video page.
When I first heard about the documentary on this mythical figure from my childhood I got excited, but it took me a few years to actually watch the movie. The experience both added to and removed some of the mystique surrounding her. As far as I can tell the movie...
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Moses became the leader of the Children of Israel through the Exodus, but how did the baby in the bull-rushes know that he was one of them? Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet is Emeritus Professor of Bible of Leo Baeck College, of which he is past Principal. He has been co-editor...
Most days of the month of April I celebrated a Jewish actor or actress who was born that day by creating a short post about her or him. Below is the full list of stars with links to my posts and their movies available at Amazon.com. From May on you...
In April 2020 I added 44 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. A mí (2017) Am Yisrael Chai – Salute to Israel Parade (1971) Asia (2020) Baby Steps (2019) Best Unkept Secret (2019) Broken Dreams (2019) Chasing Yehoshua (2019) Crossings...
Happy Birthday to Gal Gadot! She is 35 years old today. She “is an Israeli actress, model, and producer. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a fitness/combat readiness instructor, after which she began studying law and...
Happy Birthday to Jerry Seinfeld! He is 66 years old today. He is a renowned comedian most famous as the creator, writer and actor in the Seinfeld TV series that ran from 1989 to 1998. “His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent, while Jerry’s maternal grandparents, Salha and Selim Hosni,...
Happy 72nd birthday Israel! Today is Yom Ha’atzmaut, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. I celebrated it by watching a 28 minutes long documentary or travel video titled “Off the Beaten Track in Israel”, made in 1953. You can watch it below and read my review even further...
Happy Birthday to Marcia Strassman! She would be 72 years old today, but passed away 6 years ago due to cancer. She played in 75 TV series, including M*A*S*H and “Welcome Back, Kotter” or movies, including as Mom/Diane in the “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and “Honey, I Blew Up...
Happy Birthday to Jack Klugman! He would be 98 years old today, but passed away in 2012. His most memorable role was playing in The Odd Couple TV series with Tony Randall and being one of the 12 jurors in the classic version of 12 Angry Men. One of the...