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Culture ‘Mr. Kaplan’ Explores Uruguay’s Nazi Past Through Comedy
In 2009, when South American filmmaker Álvaro Brechner’s movie “Bad Day To Go Fishing” was accepted into the Warsaw Film Festival, he took the opportunity to visit the Polish neighborhood where his grandfather was born. Brechner’s grandparents had fled to South America just before World War II, with the family first settling in Bolivia before…
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The Schmooze 6 Things You Should Watch to Get in the Passover Mood
Passover is now five days away. That means matzo, matzo, and more matzo — kind of a mood killer, I know. But if hours and hours of Seder, an inevitable family fight over which kid (ok, adult) found the Afikomen, and stuffing your face with coconut macaroons aren’t enough to get you excited for the holiday,…
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The Schmooze How Italy Saved Its Jews
The vagaries of international film distribution may produce the impression that the French have created a more significant body of work examining their nation’s moral failings under Nazi Occupation than any other European country. We have, for example, feature films like Louis Malle’s “Au revoir, les enfants,” Truffaut’s “Le Dernier Metro,” or Rose Bosch’s recent…
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The Schmooze How Ziggy Gruber Became a ‘Deli Man’
Photo courtesy Cohen Media Group A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. Like many other aspects of Ashkenazi Jewish culture, old-time Jewish delicacies are becoming harder and harder to find. In 1931 there were more than 2,500 delis and 150 kosher dairy restaurants in New York City alone; today there are only 21…
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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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