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When is the right time to say goodbye? My relationship with the JUF News began with a freelance assignment way back in July 2004. Abigail Pickus was one of Chicago’s Nextbook coordinators at that time (raise your hand if you remember Nextbook), she had an event on the horizon, and she told Aaron Cohen (JUF’s much loved and recently […]
FF2 Media congratulates Editor-in-Chief Jan Lisa Huttner, who just won a 2nd place certificate in the Photographer/Writer category for her January JUF News feature “The Fiddler Returns.” The Fiddler Returns By Jan Lisa Huttner The final event in the worldwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Broadway performance of Fiddler on the Roof is […]
After a month of previews, Broadway’s fifth Fiddler on the Roof premiered today at the Broadway Theatre at 1681 Broadway (on the corner of 53rd Street). This is the final event – some might even say the culminating event – in the worldwide celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fiddler’s first Broadway performance in 1964. […]
11/3/15: With Cindy Stern at the 2015 CFIC. Taking a break during our marathon screening of “The Amsalem Trilogy” (To Take a Wife, Shiva and Gett). Grueling, yes, but this was such a powerful experience that I can only hope to do it again someday 🙂 The audiences for all three screenings–even To Take a Wife at […]
Tzivi’s Guide to the 10th Annual Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema By JAN LISA HUTTNER Patrons of this year’s Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) will have a rare opportunity to see one of the most significant accomplishments in the history of Israeli Cinema: all three parts of “The Amsalem Trilogy”—To Take a Wife, Shiva, […]
Here is my list of TOP PICKS for this year’s 2015 Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) Best New Filmmakers: Lee Gilat for Encirclements Best New Star: Naruna Kaplan De Macedo of Is That You? Best Feature Film: The Farewell Party Best Screenplay: Is That You? Best Documentary: Silicon Wadi Best Actor: Ze’ev Revach of The […]
Highly Recommended Documentary Films in this year’s 2015 Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) 1. The Polgar Variant 2. Silicon Wadi
Highly Recommended Narrative Feature Films in this year’s 2015 Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema (CFIC) 1. The Amsalem Trilogy * Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem * Shiva * To Take a Wife 2. Encirclements 3. The Farewell Party/ 4. Is That You?
International Women’s Writing Guild Member Author Panel 2015 Spring “Big Apple” Conference JLH Intro: From roughly 1983 to 2002, I worked as a Healthcare Computer Consultant. So basically this was from the dawn of hospital information systems (when people first started getting computer-generated bills) up until the dot-com/dot bomb era. At the tail end of my Healthcare […]
Blame it on the Law of Unintended Consequences. By all accounts, David Ben Gurion who was, after all, a secular Socialist, never realized he was giving religious authorities total control over the intimate personal lives of Israeli citizens. And yet, 68 years after the establishment of Israel as a Jewish state, religion plays an ever […]