West Valley Jewish Film Festival features diverse lineup
The West Valley Jewish Film Festival celebrates its 13th year by featuring three films that vary as much in tone as topic.
The festival runs from Jan. 27-29 at Beth Emeth Congregation, with one film...
Behind The Scenes of ‘Soon By You,’ The Orthodox Jewish ‘Friends’
Blind dates that crash and burn before your entrée even arrives. The cringe-inducing realization that your online date knows you’ve taken a profile embellishment too far. Getting absolutely plastered at your last single friend’s...
2018 Atlanta Jewish Festival: 74 Films in 23 Days
A world-premiere feature documentary, the North American premiere of an epic, three-part documentary, and Israel’s Academy Award entry highlight the 74 movies filling 192 screenings in 23 days at the 2018 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
The full...
Remember Baghdad: Iraq’s last Jews tell the story of their country in new British...
“Jews, Muslims, Christians – we were all Iraqis – it was paradise.”
On the hundredth anniversary of the British invasion in 1917, Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how...
(Short Film) A Bookstore in Six Chapters
Renee Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world, Salonika, or Thessaloniki, in today’s Greece.
More than 90,000 Jews lived there then. But by the time the Germans...
2 Jews, 3 za’atar recipes: reflecting on the diversity and rising popularity of Israeli...
When film director and producer Roger Sherman referred to Israel as one of the “hottest food scenes in the world,” his colleagues laughed. It was at that moment that Sherman knew he had discovered...
Miami Jewish Film Festival Announces 2018 Lineup
Art Basel is over, but Miami's next cultural extravaganza isn't far off. The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) will return this January for its 21st year. January 11 through 25, MJFF will screen 62...
Why Jewish songwriters wrote the soundtrack to the world’s most musical holiday
What's the connection between Silver Bells, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, A Holly Jolly Christmas, The Secret of Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and White Christmas?
They were all...
Holocaust drama ‘The Camp’ among productions being presented in Boca Raton
Both current Boca Raton productions, "The Camp," a drama set in the Holocaust-era, running now through Dec. 17 at the Levis Jewish Community Center and the musical "She Loves Me," running now through Dec. 23 at...
Menashe, affectionate and gently humorous portrayal of Hasidic Judaism, a community rarely seen on...
A go-to theme for the more mawkish end of the comedic spectrum – a father striving to parent alone after the death of his wife – here gets an illuminating, unsentimental new spin. According...