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Image from the documentary film “Jews of the Wild West,” 2023. Source: Screenshot.

PBS documentary focuses on ‘Jews of the Wild West’

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Amanda Kinsey, an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker, came up with the idea of a documentary on Jews who lived in the Wild West while digging through the Beck Archives in the basement of the University of Denver library. “I was blown...

A David and Goliath battle: Acclaimed documentary by Northampton filmmaker tells the story of...

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‘Labor of love” might be a cliche. But when it comes to her new film, “Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery During WWII,” Julia Mintz says the expression is very much...
Harrison Ford as “Indiana Jones.” Credit: Stefano Chiacchiarini '74/Shutterstock.

‘Indiana Jones’ again faces Nazis in Harrison Ford’s final performance of iconic role

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The forthcoming film “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which was invited to screen at Cannes, is reportedly set in 1969 and will include another “mystical relic.” The snake-fearing, whip-wielding archaeologist (Harrison Ford)...
Film director and comedian Mel Brooks at the 20th Century Fox lot on Oct. 23, 2014 in Century City, Calif. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock

For Mel Brooks, world history (no joke!) repeats itself

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Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II” on the eve of Purim, which began on March 6. Brooks (he’ll...

Film on Ethiopian Jewry’s ‘Yearning’ to be Screened in San Diego

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SAN DIEGO — “They love our work, but they do not love us” says an elderly man in the high mountains of Ethiopia. He is a Jew. His family has been Jewish as far...

‘Turn Every Page’ Film a Stunning, Intimate Learning Experience

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The film title, “Turn Every Page,” is the vital maxim of the investigative journalist and historian. At the beginning of COVID-19, in early 2020, I took the opportunity for some self-directed continuing education on writing...
Lottie and Howard Marcus. Source: Courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University.

Documentary on largest-ever gift to Israel to screen at international film festival

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A documentary that reconstructs the lives of Holocaust survivors Lottie and Howard Marcus, who made the largest-ever charitable donation to an institution based in Israel, will screen at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival...
In the new film “My Name Is Sara,” a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Sara Goralnik, poses as “Manya,” there are some who would like to kill her in the newly released Holocaust film, “My Name Is Sara,” based on a true story. Credit: Courtesy of Strand Releasing.

All eyes upon this 13-year-old

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A young man starts to say the Shema because his father made him promise to do so if the Nazis were to get him. His sister, Sara, covers his mouth, and as the lights of the Nazis...
A scene from “Image of Victory,” a 2021 Israeli film to be released on Netflix on July 15, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli film ‘Image of Victory’ to be released on Netflix

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Inspired by true events in 1948, Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim on the Israeli-Egyptian border. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid,...
Award-winning documentary film director and writer Richard Trank in Eastern Europe with his crew on the set of “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to be released on July 13 on Netflix. Credit: Moriah Films.

Always the optimist: Netflix film on Shimon Peres spotlights political, emotional resilience

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A children’s book by Ruth Krauss called The Carrot Seed, first published in 1945, is a little read that packs a big punch. In it, the main character, a little boy who doesn’t even have...