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A scene from the film"1506: The Lisbon Genocide." Credit: Courtesy.

Oporto Jewish community promotes film on 1506 Lisbon massacre

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Jewish communities don’t ordinarily double as film production companies, but the community of Oporto, Portugal, has shown itself to be anything but ordinary. It has begun promotion for its third film, “1506: The Lisbon...

Film in Chattanooga Jewish screening refers to ‘Occupied West Bank’

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The 16th annual Chattanooga Jewish Film Series, hosted by the Jewish Federation in the southeastern Tennessee city, began on Wednesday evening. Titles featured include the 1941 Holocaust escape drama “Farewell Mr. Haffman,” the musical drama “Love Gets...

Viewers Experience World of Deaf in ‘Since August’

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Now viewable on YouTube and other Internet platforms, Since August is a groundbreaking film in which most of the sparse dialogue is in American Sign Language with some English-language captioning. It takes hearing people into the...
American Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein seated at piano, making annotations to a musical score, 1955. Credit: Al Ravenna, World Telegram Staff Photographer via Wikimedia Commons.

Leonard Bernstein Netflix film criticized over ‘Jewface’

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In lush black and white, a man and woman sit back-to-back in a park, playing a guessing game together, dreaming that they can communicate telepathically if they just try hard enough. The scene cuts...

‘Yidishe Gauchos’ To Ride Again Sept. 9

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If you haven’t seen something before, it is new to you, no matter how old it is. That’s the thinking behind Yiddishland scheduling a Sept. 9 showing and discussion by Mark Freeman of his...
A still from the 2004 short film “Uncle Chaim” by Rabbi Avi Schwartz. Credit: Courtesy.

Orthodox rabbi’s films share ‘relatable stories’ based everyday life

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His 2023 film “The Quest: Get Back Your Ex” is a “dramatic tale of love and self-discovery” of six divorced couples who “undergo trials of redemption to win back lost loves and mend broken hearts.” The one-hour...
Art collage of the Manhattan Project. led by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Credit: Lia Koltyrina/Shutterstock

Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film

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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews. One of the authors of the...
From the documentary film “Upheaval” on former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Source: Screenshot.

‘Upheaval’ screening receives robust response in Mexico City

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More than 2,000 Mexico City Jews turned out to view “Upheaval,” the first English-language documentary on the life of former Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. Bruce Gould, producer and a board member of the Hidden Light Institute,...
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner whispers her love to dying father, Eli Timoner, in intimate documentary, “The Last Flight.”

Documentary Intimately Records Eli Timoner’s Choice to End His Life

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Eli Timoner once had been at the top of the world. He had netted millions from the sale of Laura Lee Candies, in which he had a controlling interest, as well as profits from...
David and Avi Wisnia at a panel discussion as part of the International Conference on Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, October 26-29, 2015. Photo courtesy of Avi Wisnia.

How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...

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April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...