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Celebrate Mother’s Day with the Rabinowitz Family! Follow link to download eVite as a PDF: 16May08eVite Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 2 PM Park Slope Jewish Center in Brooklyn 1320 8 Avenue at 14th Street Program… Treats… Hugs… Free 🙂 Dear Friends/Tayere Khaveyrim: Hodel Loyeff—best-known by her Russian name Olga Rabinowitz—invites you to remember her husband Solomon Rabinowitz—best-known by […]
3/25/16 Update (posted today on JUF Online): Colliding Dreams opens in Metro Chicago today (March 25) at the Music Box Theater on Southport and the Landmark Renaissance Center Cinema in Highland Park. For times and tickets, follow these links to the Music Box website, and the Landmark website. Review by FF2 Managing Editor Jan Lisa Huttner Colliding Dreams, […]
NYC SHOUT-OUT: Carvalho’s Journey is playing at the Center for Jewish History on March 15 as part of the 2016 Sephardic Film Festival. Filmmaker Steve Rivo will be onsite for a post-screening Q&A. To order tickets, visit the CJH website. (Presented by the American Sephardi Federation & co-sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society.) ************************* This fascinating […]
Tzivi’s Sneak Peek: Seen on screener for JUF News post for February 2016. Delightfully quirky film about a Brit from Northern Ireland who discovers that his family once owned a now defunct sugar factory in Douboviazovka, Ukraine. And it gets better! Turns out that the family’s wealth really came from the vodka distillery next door! Kudos to Dan Edelstyn […]
Tzivi’s Sneak Peek: Seen at a special screening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (11/8/15) New documentary from the National Center for Jewish Film in which a dedicated team recreates a Polish synagogue for the new museum in Warsaw. Heavy on talent and technique, this is a tribute to all the man/woman hours lavished on […]
First JLH Day at the 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival Full Title = Art and Heart: The World of Isaiah Sheffer Affectionate BioDoc by Catherine Tambini about Manhattan mensch Isaiah Sheffer. Sheffer is well-known nationally as the creator and host of NPR’s Selected Shorts, but Jewish New York knows him as the impressario of Symphony Space. […]
First JLH Day at the 2016 New York Jewish Film Festival Stunning adaptation by David Bezmozgis of his 2001 short story Natasha. Bezmozgis is clearly obsessed with the story of Natasha–for good reason–and he made the excellent decision to both write and direct the adaptation himself. Natasha is the story of a teenager named “Mark […]
Full Title = Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict For all the books written about her since her death in 1979–and even despite the two books she wrote about herself–Peggy Guggenheim remains an elusive subject. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s great contribution to PG’s legacy is twofold. First, she shows us the depth and breadth of the physical objects […]
Steve Carell–in a transformative performance–stars as “Mark Baum,” the moral center in a riveting story about the the “Subprime Mortgage Crisis” of 2008. Director Adam McKay and his co-writer Charles Randolph have based their screenplay on The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (the non-fiction best-seller published by Michael Lewis in 2010). The result is an instant classic […]
The 10th annual Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema begins this week, and as regular readers already know, I will be flying in from Brooklyn to participate in a special screening of The Gett Trilogy on Tuesday, Nov. 3. This is something of a high-risk venture for the CFIC, because the initial release of Gett: The […]