Tag: Film
The Hollywood blacklist is back, and Jewish liberals are fine with it
One of the staples of the Los Angeles entertainment world in the last few decades has been stories that depict the unfairness and cruelty of the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. At the height...
Shira Haas, ‘Asia’ win Israel’s Ophir Awards
The mother-daughter drama “Asia” was named Best Picture at the Israeli Academy of Film and Television’s Ophir Awards, automatically becoming Israel’s entry in the Best International Feature category at the Oscars next spring. “Unorthodox”...
The woke world goes to war against ‘Wonder Woman’
I’m not sure the world needed another movie about Cleopatra. And the career arc of Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who became an international superstar with her “Wonder Woman” films, isn’t something that matters all...
‘Wonder Woman’ Gal Gadot third highest-paid actress in 2020
Israeli actress Gal Gadot made $31.5 million in 2020, earning her third place on Forbes’ list of this year’s highest-paid Hollywood actresses.
The bulk of her earnings, the magazine said, came from $20 million for her...
Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber.
The event is timed...
Online movie series to feature rescuers and rescued during years of Holocaust
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) is launching a Monday-night movie series, from July 27 to Aug. 21, each week airing one of its award-winning documentaries that highlight Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews...
Israel Film Archive digitalizes extensive collection, starts to release films online
After years of work on digitizing its collection of Israeli film clips, the Israel Film Archive (IFA), part of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, is beginning to share its collection online with the goal of eventually...
Museum of Jewish Heritage offers free online educational resources for those at home
New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage–A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is offering several online resources for parents, teachers and students as the museum remains temporarily closed in accordance with COVID-19 social-distancing restrictions.
For parents...
Filmmakers boycott LGBT film festival in Tel Aviv in ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians
At least 100 LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and film artists are among a group of more than 230 people in the film industry who have signed a pledge to boycott TLVFest—an LGBT film festival in Israel—as...
What makes Israel the 13th happiest country in the world?
“Happy are those who dwell in Your house.” — Psalm 84
It’s official. Israel has been named the 13th happiest country in the world. So says the 2019 United Nations World Happiness Report, which ranks...