Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aka RBG an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, passed away on September 18, 2020. She was an inspirational figure as attested by the many books and movies about her. For further information, read the wikipedia entry about her. I also recommend Barack Obama‘s post...
Most days of the month of August I celebrated a Jewish actor or actress who was born that day by posting about her or him on my Instagram account. Below is the full list of stars with links to my posts and their movies available at Amazon.com. (Here is the...
The series will include 9 movies, most of which you can watch online and after them there will be conversations with the films’ creators. The full list of movies, including the scheduled talks, is available at the series’ home page jewishsac.org/socialjustice (and on our page for the series too.) An...
In August 2020 I added 55 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them above. Against the Reinheitsgebot (2016) Alan & Naomi (1992) DVD An American Pickle (2020) Angry Harvest (1985) DVD Anthropoid (2016) DVD Black Swell (2016) The Crossroads of Angel...
Each Thursday in Budapest Hungary, a cool outdoor bar, called Kabin, next to the Danube, is having an event which starts with live music and concludes with an Israeli film. The four movies they wil show are: Aviva My Love, Five Hours from Paris, Hill Start and The World Is...
From the article announcing the festival in The Hamilton Spectator The newly minted Hamilton Jewish Film Festival is about more than the movies, but let’s start with the movies because, after all, it is a film festival, and the three featured entries take us from polar bears to polar opposites,...
Classrooms Without Borders, in partnership with Rodef Shalom Congregation, is excited to offer the opportunity to watch the film “Operation Wedding” and engage in a post-film discussion with the film director, Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov and her mother Sylva, one of the actual hijackers! CWB scholar Avi Ben-Hur will open the discussion....
From an article at Dallas Art Dealers Association The Jewish Film Festival of Dallas is back for its 24th year. “The annual festival provides a unique window to the Jewish experience for the whole community. said Rachelle Weiss Crane, a festival organizer. “The films provide a rare opportunity to experience Jewish life and...
Excerpt from Vos Iz Neais?‘ article titled: How Buenos Aires’ Jews Have Weathered The Pandemic Over the past 16 years, the Buenos Aires Jewish film festival has debuted 250 movies by Israeli directors such as Yosef Shiloaj, Dan Wolman, Ayelet Bargur, Igaal Niddam, Ilan Heitne, David Volach, and Jorge Gurvich,...
