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From Argentina, Insane Music, Unexpected Harmonies and Marxist Overtones
The opening of Alejo Moguillansky’s new film, “The Little Match Girl,” does the audience the unusual courtesy of setting forth a catalog of the attractions to come. “There is an orchestra playing some insane music. There is a donkey. There is a little girl named Cleo,” a narrator intones. “There are a lot of pianos….
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If The Parkland Shooting Made You More Hopeful, You’re Not Wrong
I never imagined I’d hear first lady Melania Trump channel Norman Lear. On the other hand, I never imagined I’d hear “first lady Melania Trump,” so clearly anything is possible. Even the resurgence of American democracy! Let me tell you how I can talk myself into that. Feeling that nothing is possible – Groundhog Days…
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Is Nato Green The Funniest Union Organizer In America (Or Cuba)?
Nato Green is a Jewish union organizer from San Francisco — currently living in Cuba — who also happens to be one of the Bay Area’s most successful stand-up comics. He’s toured with Hari Kondalobu, Janine Brito and CNN’s W. Kamau Bell. He’s been voted best comic in the city, written for FX and he…
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Music Jerusalem Concert Of Jewish Music From The Holocaust Will Honor 70th Anniversary Of Israel’s Founding
As part of the roster of celebrations planned in honor of the 70th anniversary of the founding of Israel, Jerusalem will in April play host to a concert of music written directly before and during the Holocaust. The concert by Israel’s Ashod Symphony Orchestra will mark the first time that several of those works will…
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From Bais Yaakov To The Bench — Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt In Conversation With Judge Ruchie Freier
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt, life editor of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Judge Ruchie Freier of the New York City Criminal Court at Young Israel of Jamaica Estates on Sunday March 18. Click to enlarge flier. Judge Rachel “Ruchie” Freier, is the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge…
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Film & TV Remembering Lewis Gilbert, Who Directed Bond Films, “Alfie,” “Educating Rita”
Lewis Gilbert, a beloved British film director whose oeuvre includes three James Bond films and “Alfie” (1966), which made Michael Caine a star, has died at 97, according to his son, John Gilbert, quoted in The New York Times. Gilbert’s massive filmography includes rousing war pictures like “Sink the Bismarck!” (1960) and comedies like “The…
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The Mensch Behind ‘Batman’ Dies At 104
The Hollywood producer Benjamin Melniker, who died on February 26 at the age of 104, bought the screen rights to the DC Comics character Batman in 1979 and is credited as co-executive producer on every Batman film from Tim Burton’s 1989 effort to Batman Ninja (2018). His career proves that no comic book villains could…
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Art Can Germany Teach Jews Anything About Israel?
Midway through the Jewish Museum Berlin’s exhibit “Welcome to Jerusalem,” a sprawling tour through the Holy City, one finds a particularly unsettling image. No, it isn’t an especially gruesome crucifixion, a battle scene of the Crusades or a photograph of carnage after a terrorist attack. The offending picture shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gripping…
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Film & TV Is Liberal Jewish Sanctimony Ruining The Oscars?
Chances are, come March 4, you will be ensconced in front of your television watching the 90th edition of the Academy Awards, though chances are there will be fewer people watching this year than last year or the year before that or the year before that, since Oscar ratings have been steadily declining. The Motion…
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Film & TV ‘7 Days In Entebbe’ Is About How Leftists Should Butt Out Of The Jews’ Business
They started to make movies about the 1976 Israeli special forces raid on Uganda’s Entebbe airport even before the bodies were cold. One movie aired before the end of that year. Two more came in 1977. Chuck Norris’s gloss on the story came in 1986, complete with a motorcycle-borne rocket launcher. The battle at Entebbe,…
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Film & TV Samuel Maoz Says ‘Foxtrot’ Isn’t Trying To Make Israel Look Bad
Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s vivid, memorable — and not easy to watch — film, “Foxtrot,” has already generated controversy in Israel. Minister of Culture Miri Regev has accused him of being a traitor and done everything in her power to generate a boycott against the film. Maoz has received death threats. At the same time,…
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Yiddish װערטער װאָס ראַטעװען: ירמיהו אַהרן טאַובס נײַ ביכל לידערWords of rescue: Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s new book of poetry
באַזונדערש רירנדיק דאָ זײַנען די בילדער פֿון משפּחה־רײַבונגען, פֿון באַגעגענישן װאָס ברענגען נישט צו קײן עמאָציאָנעלע פֿאַרשטענדיקונגען.