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Culture 2017 New York Jewish Film Festival Announces Lineup
The 2017 New York Jewish Film Festival, which will take place January 11-24, has announced the primary lineup of films it will feature. Of the 29 films selected for the festival’s 26th incarnation, 26 will be receiving their world, United States, or New York premieres. The films will include Dorit Hakim’s “Moon in the 12th…
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Culture Go Watch This Documentary About A Holocaust Survivor’s Violin
“Joe’s Violin” (2016), opens with a shot of the titular Joseph Feingold, tuning his violin. He hasn’t played in “8-10 years,” and his fingers look unsteady as he holds the instrument’s neck. After tinkering for a bit, Joseph puts down the violin and asks “how long can you live with memories?” Joseph, one of the…
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Life ‘Rabbi Jacqueline’ Film to Put a Female Spin on a French Classic
The Mad Adventures of ‘Rabbi’ Jacob is a 1973 French comedy starring Louis de Funès. It involves — among so much else, and I don’t want to spoil it! — a racist French man and an Arab revolutionary dressing up as orthodox Jews, which, as I type this, sounds terribly problematic, but has an anti-racist…
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Food Why PBS’s ‘Hugs and Knishes’ Left Me Cold and Hungry
Public television has a pretty good idea of which side its donations are buttered on. So when it’s fundraising time, the network rolls out Jewish-themed documentaries: “Life in the Jewish Bronx,” “Life in the Shtetl” and “Life in Jewish Brooklyn.” (As a Bronxite, I have to wonder what kind of life that possibly could have…
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Opinion Let ‘Loving’ and Its Jewish Lawyers Make You Feel Great About America Again
I went to the movies on Saturday night to escape the dread everyone I know is feeling in the last few days of this dispiriting election season. At the theater, I watched images of a husband and wife dragged from their bed in the middle of the night — she very pregnant — and thrown…
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Food Stealing the Ultimate Pickle Recipe
I laughed so hard last night while screening “The Pickle Recipe,” a new film that opens Friday, November 4. Starring the brilliant Lynn Cohen, who played Golda Meir in Munich and Magda on Sex and the City, the movie centers around a dysfunctional Jewish family whose matriarch, Rose, owns a deli in Detroit, where she…
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News Chicago’s ‘Godfather of Gore’ Herschell Gordon Lewis, 90
Herschell Gordon Lewis, the film director and producer celebrated as the Godfather of Gore, died September 26 at his home in Pompano, Florida. He was 90 years old. Lewis was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Chicago, where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in journalism at Northwestern University. After brief stints teaching…
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Life ‘Denial’ Tells Tale of Historian Deborah Lipstadt’s Epic Fight Over Holocaust
“Denial” is the true story of a Jewish woman who had to prove in court that the Holocaust had taken place, but it also has a timely message for present day society, according to director Mick Jackson. “Denial,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend, recounts how Deborah Lipstadt, a prominent historian,…
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