From the Miami New Times The Miami Jewish Film Festival announced today that it will launch a competition sidebar in which select films will be judged and compete for the $18,000 Grand Jury Prize. This cash prize marks the first such award to be offered by any Jewish film festival...
From the J: Israel “took a lot of ideas from the Soviet-style of playing the spy game,” in sending out citizens on long-term spy missions where they had to adopt false identities, said Dan Raviv, a correspondent for i24News and the author of “Spies Against Armageddon,” a history of Israeli...
Between May and July 2019 I added 48 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 1980 (1980) 82 Names: Syria, Please don’t Forget Us (2018) Advocate (2019) Anna’s War (2018) The Archive (2018) At Home (1969) Barbara Rubin and the Exploding...
Today’s is Tisha B’Av a Jewish mourning/fast day. Last week I visited the Auschwitz concentration camp with my family for the first time. Today I edited some of the pictures I shot into a video poem. I let this video speak how I felt there.
In April 2019 I added 42 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 30 KM/H (2018) Abe (2019) Angel Wagenstein: Art Is a Weapon (2017) Beneath the Ink (2018) Call Me Bill: The William Davidson Story (2018) Die Stille schreit (2019)...
Found this video on YouTube, a film shot by Max Korshak in May, 1938: From the description What this video shows: The family of Isaak and Gida Neuberger outside their home at Adolf-Hitler-Straße 58 in Sennfeld. (The street was formerly “Hauptstraße”; its original name was restored following the fall of...
In March 2019 I added 80 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 87 Children (2017) The Automat (2019) Autonomies (2018) Babi Yar (2017) Back To Maracanã (2018) Bottomless (2016) Boxes (2018) Broken/Fixed (2017) Brussels Transit (1982) Carbone (2017) Ceased to...
We are very happy to share the announcement of this short film competition and festival: The Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (GPJFF) seeks short films, 3 to 18 minutes in length, from high school and undergraduate college students who live or study in Greater Philadelphia, New Jersey, or Delaware. The...
From Kveller These days, there is a delightful array of Israeli content (with English subtitles) on all your favorite streaming platforms. Seriously, it’s an embarrassment of riches. What’s even better is that many of these shows have cast members in common with “Shtisel” — Israel is a small country, after...
In February 2019 I added 50 movies to this site, see the whole list below and the covers of some of them. 1938 Different (2018) Alt-Right: Age of Rage (2018) DVD The Amazing Journey of Aharoni & Gidi (2011) The Bird Catcher (2018) Bird in the Room (2015) Black Book...
Every nation has its heroes. Some adore athletes, others soldiers, or actors, or rich people or politicians, or clergyman. OK, it is a generalization at least in two ways, because not everyone in a given nation will adore the same kind of people and you can have more than one...