Feuding family members featured in ‘Bad Jews’
Jewish actress Hannah Benitez stars in the one-act drama "Bad Jews," running now through Aug. 13 by Main Street Players at the Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes.
The story is centered on the death...
Former Hasidic reggae star Matisyahu finds salvation beyond perfection
Matisyahu has gone through some drastic changes in recent years, and this was the capper. In 2011, he’d shaved his beard and announced that he was backing away from Hasidic Judaism, a decision that...
‘Common bond’: Film festival focuses ‘through lens of Jewish culture’
Five – this is the number of films that will be screened as part of the fourth annual Jewish Film Festival in Albuquerque, beginning Thursday, July 20.
And each one of the films will have...
Film review: ‘Menashe’
“Menashe” is a rarity among American indies: a foreign-language film set in the middle of urban New York City (technically, Borough Park, Brooklyn). Apart from a few lines of English, and a few more...
Jewish exhibit now open in West Hartford
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford opened the traveling exhibit "From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America," at the Mandell JCC on June 28.
Michael Feldberg, who curated the exhibit...
He survived the Holocaust, now he lives with the granddaughter of Nazi Party members
The story of a Holocaust survivor who today shares his Berkeley home with the granddaughter of unrepentant members of the Nazi Party will be told next week during a screening of the film “Near...
New TV from Alison Brie and Nick Kroll; Jews of ‘Rough Night’; and more
he original Showtime series “I’m Dying Up Here” premiered on June 4, and the first episode is free to view on the Showtime website. It’s the 1970s and the action centers around a Hollywood comedy club,...
Prof. Jack Jacobs discusses “Jews and the Left”
JEWS AND THE LEFT RECONSIDERED
Thursday, June 22 | 7:00pm
Admission: Free
Lecture and Book Launch
In the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the 20th, Jews held highly visible positions in a...
The best Jewish, Israeli films of 2017 so far
First rule of screenwriting, whether you are doing a fiction film or a documentary: Without conflict there is no story.
Perhaps that is why Jewish-themed movies are so often effective. We are in conflict with...
Award-winning documentary about Roman Jews during the Nazi occupation to be shown at Ocean...
What was the experience of Roman Jews living in Nazi occupied Rome? The public is invited to a free screening, an adult program, of the award-winning documentary film Oro Macht Frei (Gold Will Set...