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Culture The Rocky Rise of J Street
There’s no doubt that J Street has shaken up American Jewry. Since its inception in 2008 as a lobby, political action committee, educational group and student movement, the organization has disrupted the debate about what it means to be pro-Israel. Now a new documentary, “J Street: The Art of the Possible,” produced and directed by…
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The Schmooze The French Comedy Too Controversial for America
The French comedy “Serial (Bad) Weddings” opens with a white Catholic couple grimacing in church as they marry off their eldest daughter to an Arab. In the second scene they grimace once again, as their second daughter marries a Jew. Not hot-button enough yet? A third daughter then marries a Chinese man, and the film’s…
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Fast Forward Albert Maysles, Documentary Filmmaker Who Made ‘Gimme Shelter,’ Dies at 88
Documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, known for films such as “Grey Gardens” and “Gimme Shelter” that he made with his brother, has died at age 88, the operations manager at his film company said on Friday. Maysles died late on Thursday in New York, said the manager, Edo Choi. He declined to give further details. Maysles…
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Fast Forward Albert Maysles, Documentary Filmmaker Who Made ‘Gimme Shelter,’ Dies at 88
Jewish ocumentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, known for films such as “Grey Gardens” and “Gimme Shelter” that he made with his brother, has died at age 88, the operations manager at his film company said on Friday. Maysles died late on Thursday in New York, said the manager, Edo Choi. He declined to give further details….
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Fast Forward Pope Pius XII is not ‘Vatican’s Schindler’
ROME (JTA) — A new movie depicting Pope Pius XII as a savior of Jews was slammed by an Italian Jewish publication as “fiction.” “Shades of Truth,” featuring international stars Christopher Lambert and Giancarlo Giannini, had its premiere on Monday in Vatican City. The movie attempts to prove that Pius XII was not “Hitler’s Pope,”…
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The Schmooze 10 Food Movies Everyone Should See
While it may seem as though deli food is the only grub worthy of cinematic treatment, some foolish auteurs have tackled others. Here are some of the best food films ever, in our humble opinion. 1. The Hundred-Foot Journey (Lasse Hallström, 2014) Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) is not pleased when Indian immigrants open a restaurant…
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The Schmooze ‘Deli Man’ Pays Homage to Jewish Comfort Food
Photo courtesy Cohen Media Group For many Jews, much of their identity revolves around a bagel with shmear or a hot pastrami sandwich. And in mid-20th-century America, there were plenty of places they could indulge their cultural-culinary passions. In 1931, New York City alone was home to over 1,500 kosher delicatessens. Today, not so much….
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Culture An Unlikely Ghost Story From David Cronenberg
In “Maps to the Stars,” the latest creep-show from Canadian auteur David Cronenberg, Benjie Weiss, a 13-year-old child actor, starts seeing dead people. First it’s Cammy, a girl with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma whom he met in a hospital on a “Make a Wish”-type visit, and who shows up outside of his bedroom wearing a spectral bridal…
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