Simi Horwitz is a feature writer and film reviewer based in New York City. In 2022, she received first place for film criticism from the Society for Feature Journalism, and in 2023, a New York Press Club Award for an Entertainment News feature; and three Los Angeles Press Club Awards, including first place for film criticism — all for pieces published in the Forward.
Simi Horwitz
By Simi Horwitz
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Culture The ‘wild’ Jewish director who Hollywood left behind
Even though he made only two films, Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein was a legendary figure
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Culture A fierce, uncompromisingly radical Jewish feminist finally gets her due
A compelling new documentary revels in the fascinating contradictions of Andrea Dworkin
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Culture A humongous retrospective honors the glorious career of an iconic Jewish photographer
William Klein’s humor and social conscience have informed his work since the 1940s
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Film & TV In a stunning new film, a portrait of what it means to be Israeli today
Yael Reuveny's 'Promised Lands' is a documentary filled with memorable images and vexing contradictions
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Culture Behind the walls of this humble bookstore stands a Jewish American hero
Bookseller Matt Tannenbaum is the subject of a new documentary, but he could pass for the star of a Frank Capra movie
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Film & TV ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — the movie that mattered so much that they made a movie about it
A new documentary chronicles 'Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen'
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Film & TV A visionary artist’s life cut short at 26 by the Nazis
A new animated film tells the tragic story of Charlotte Salomon who died at Auschwitz in 1943
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Culture Oscar-nominated ‘Bullies’ documentary opens up a much-needed conversation
Jay Rosenblatt’s “When We Were Bullies,” the Oscar-nominated documentary short film that explores how bullying continues to affect its perpetrators, couldn’t be more timely. Though the incident in question took place more than half a century ago in a Brooklyn schoolyard, it haunts the filmmaker and many of his fellow classmates who were fifth graders…
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