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The Schmooze Israel Picks Haredi Drama as Oscar Entry
Having won seven Ophir Awards, “Fill the Void” has secured its place as Israel’s Oscar entry for this year. The film, with its artful and gripping insider look at life among a Hasidic community in Tel Aviv, snagged Ophirs for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actress and best supporting actress, among others. “Fill…
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Fast Forward Israeli Court Won’t Block Anti-Islam Film
A Jerusalem court denied a request by Arab-Israeli politicians and religious leaders seeking to remove an anti-Muslim movie from YouTube and block all Israeli access to it. The request to the Jerusalem District Court to issue an injunction against Google to block access to “Innocence of Muslims,” which insults the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, was filed…
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The Schmooze ‘Truthful Propaganda’ From Gaza
“Tears of Gaza,” a Norwegian documentary about the Gaza Strip under assault during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead of December 2008 and January 2009, is presented in Arabic with English subtitles. It may be characterized as “truthful propaganda.” There’s no reason to doubt most of what you see, but the film makes no apology for showing…
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The Schmooze Loving Look at Radio Pioneer
Those of you who are up on your 1960s counter-culture know that the Yippies were formed, for the most part, by a group of Jewish troublemakers from Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Some of those mischievous Yidden are no longer with us: Abbie Hoffman committed suicide in 1989, Jerry Rubin got hit by a car in…
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Fast Forward Maker of Anti-Islam Film Quizzed by Police
A California man linked to an anti-Islam film on YouTube that triggered violent Muslim protests was taken on Saturday to be questioned about possible probation violations. Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was not allowed to access the Internet without approval of a probation officer as a condition of his release from prison in a 2010 bank…
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Fast Forward Muslim Protests Over Film Spread to E. Jerusalem
Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East on Friday, including the Palestinian territories, with protesters attacking U.S. embassies and burning American flags as the Pentagon rushed to bolster security at its missions. Protests erupted for the first time in Gaza and the West Bank. In East Jerusalem, Israeli…
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Fast Forward Anti-Islam Film Sparks More Angry Protests
Protests continued outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Yemen over an anti-Muslim film. Protests over the film, which was said to have been made by a Jewish director with Jewish financial backing but was later disproved, had already led to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya…
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The Schmooze Josh Radnor on Talmud and ‘Liberal Arts’
John Radnor is best known for his role as Ted Mosby, the central character in the hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” But that’s likely to change as he continues to flesh out his resume as a talented film writer and director. His first feature, “Happythankyoumoreplease” (2010) had, in his words, “a really…
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