Crossposted from Haaretz “Precious Life,” a documentary film by Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar, will be in the running next month for an award sponsored by the VH1 music television channel and the American social service organization “Do Something.” The competition provides recognition to young people working for social change and also confers awards in the…
Crossposted from Haaretz Israeli documentary “Precious Life” was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Film category in the 83rd Academy Awards, alongside 15 feature documentaries. Director Shlomi Eldar’s moving film documents a saga involving a breathtaking race to save the life of a desperately ill Palestinian baby. The baby’s militant mother, an Israeli doctor and Eldar,…
Ron Dicker goes to see “Precious Life,” a documentary that was transformed in the making from a sentimental heart-tugger to a more complicated moral maneuver. Asaf Hanuka goes grocery shopping in “The Two States of Israel.” Philologos talks italics. Mark Cohen reads through all 708 of Saul Bellow’s witty and malicious letters included in a…
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