Experience the amazing true story of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, an artist who survived two years at Auschwitz by painting portraits for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. This faithful adaptation of the six-page comic created by the David S. Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies combines illustrations by Neal Adams, motion graphics, and music to bring the […]
” No, the Brooklyn Museum isn’t hosting another controversial exhibition. And, no, security hasn’t been tightened beyond the normal array guards and docents.These actors, extras and crew members from the NBC drama “Kings” came to Kings on Monday and turned the Eastern Parkway art institution into a war zone.” more@BrooklynPaper.com
“Then, as now, Ma’ale operated in a city-owned circa-1900 stone building near the border between East and West Jerusalem. In cramped quarters, with rudimentary electricity, plumbing and film equipment, no work was done on the Sabbath. Violence, sex and nudity in scripts were taboo. The students, who often came from West Bank settlements, were shaped […]
The Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival has rejected a film created by Orthodox women after the film director demanded screening for female audiences only in accordance with Halacha. The film, “A Light For Greytowers,” directed by Robin Garbose, was initially accepted by the festival on the basis of its artistic merits. The film was slated to […]
Documentary Focuses on Rudolf Kasztner, Shoa Traitor — Or Hero<“I started the film,” Ross said, “with the [Bertolt] Brecht quote ‘Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.’ And why do we need heroes?” Given the powerful and tragic responses to Kasztner, she added, “I think the very nature of needing heroes gets us […]
About a year ago, a new movie titled “Unvanquished” was published by ACC Studios on the arrest and imprisonment of the Rebbe Rayatz, the movie was a huge hit and caused waves all over the Former Soviet Union. The jail footage was actually filmed in the “Spalerka” prison in Leningrad. The movie was also published […]
London - A senior figure in the strictly Orthodox community has attacked the BBC over its documentary series Jews. Chanoch Kesselman, executive co-ordinator of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, complained in a letter to the BBC this week that the first film in Vanessa Engle’s BBC4 series “impinges on the privacy of the Charedi […]
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Dvar Malchus Speaks Russian “Korach” Rabbi Shmuel Sominski
Jews is a new series from award-winning Lefties director Vanessa Engle, offering a remarkable and unprecedented insight into Jewish life in Britain today. It looks at religion, orthodoxy and secularism, documenting the beliefs and culture of very different kinds of Jews - ranging from atheist and secular Jews through to ultra-orthodox Jews. The three-part […]
“I realized that the first Holocaust pictures I saw, as one who grew up here, were of naked women,” said Ari Libsker, whose documentary film “Stalags: Holocaust and Pornography in Israel” had its premiere at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July and is to be broadcast in October and shown in movie theaters. “We were […]
If New York is a center for independent film, and moreso, a place see the latest in films made by and for the Jewish community, then it is also a place for films by Jewish women as well. Now the National Council of Jewish Women New York Section is sponsoring a Jewish Women’’s Film Festival […]
