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US Premiere of The Rabbi’s Cat

17, Apr 2012

French film “Le Chat du Rabbin” (“The Rabbi’s Cat”) premiers at the Museum of Modern Art in New York By Michael Brick Last summer, crowds of enthusiastic French theatergoers welcomed the wide release of Le Chat du Rabbin, (“The Rabbi’s Cat,”) an adaptation of the exceptionally popular graphic novel by Joann Sfar, who also directed the film. […]

“Mabul” Film Floods with Allegory

23, Mar 2012

by Elke Reva Sudin Mabul (“The Flood”) is a coming of age film about a young boy named Yoni, on the precipice of his bar mitzvah while his family is falling apart around him. His Bar Mitzvah Torah portion, that of “Noah”, sets the stage for events that draw parallels between the biblical text and […]

16th Annual Sephardic Jewish Film Festival

5, Mar 2012

The American Sephardi Federation presents the 16th Annual NY Sephardic Film Festival which opens March 15, 2012. For tickets and information, please click here. Advanced tickets may also be purchased at the Center for Jewish History Box Office on Sunday, March 4 and Sunday, March 11 between 11am 4:30pm.

The Jewish Student Film Festival at NYU

13, Feb 2012

Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 2pm – 5pm   Kimmel Center (New York University) 60 Washington Square South 10th Floor (Rosenthal Pavilion) New York, NY 10023 This spring a new annual Jewish Student Film Festival is being launched at New York University. Sponsored in association with the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, the purpose of […]

Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ Graphic Novel Released in Europe

25, Oct 2011

When last we reported on filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s long-gestating dream project Noah in February of this year, it seemed like the screen version would continue to languish in development hell. So Aronofsky, much as he did with his ambitiously religious The Fountain, began working on a graphic novel adaptation of he and frequent collaborator Ari Handel’s […]

31st San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

20, Jul 2011

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is hosting their 31st annual fest July 21st – August 8th, 2011. The festival, one of the largest and best in the world, will be featuring a wide range of Jewish and Israeli films with both contemporary and historical subject matter. The festival has a long standing reputation of […]

LABA FELLOWS APPLICATION 2011-2012

15, Jul 2011

LABA is a beit midrash, or Jewish house of study, for culture makers held at the 14th St. Y in New York City. Through the LABA fellows program, around 10 artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors, and directors, partake in a yearlong study of classical Jewish texts in a non-denominational, non-religious setting, and incorporate these ancient […]

Israel Film Festival Review: Brothers

23, Jun 2011

By Saul Sudin Igaal Niddam’s Brothers opens on a beautiful field under a warm sun casting its rays down on a man and his herd of sheep. You can tell from this initial image how blessed the land is, and the shepherd, writing poetry in his journal, harkens back to biblical greats like King David. […]

Israel Film Festival Review: Chametz & Lenin In October

6, Jun 2011

By Eszter Margit The made for television short Chametz, directed by Alon Levi, won the Best Television Drama Film award at the Haifa International Film Festival in 2010. Chametz follows 15-year-old Ayala (Noa Kashi) as she returns from boarding school to help her mother (Reymond Amsalem) prepare for Passover. There she discovers the real reason […]

The Cannes Film Festival Awards Jewish Film, Bans Director Who Made Anti-Semitic Remarks

23, May 2011

Plus, the Coen Brothers were in Israel By Saul Sudin Much has already been said about Lars Von Trier and his outrageous statements at the Cannes Film Festival, having infamously stated “I really wanted to be a Jew and then I found out that I was really a Nazi, because my family is German. And […]


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