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The Scribe
Movie
Kalman Delmoor Is an American born Scribe who sits in the Old City of Jerusalem at the Four Sephardic Synagogues. There he scribes, interacts with tourists, and runs workshops. He focuses his work on connecting content and imagery, micro and macro, in a smart and meaningful way that he hopes can ...
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From Language to Language
Movie
Ten people - all poets, writers, or singers - speak of the relationship between Hebrew and the language of their childhood, a language whose music still echoes in them even if they no longer remember it. In this hour-long documentary, a series of portrait-like monologues reveals the far-reaching ...
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Discordia
Movie
On September 9, 2002, a scheduled appearance by former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked heated debate at Montreal's Concordia University. By the end of the day, the "Concordia riot" had made international news, from CNN to Al-Jazeera. This film documents the fallout from that eve...
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Undressing Israel
Movie
When many people think of Israel, it is often in terms of modern war or ancient religion. But there is much more to the Jewish state than missiles and prayers. In his debut as a documentary filmmaker, Michael Lucas examines a side of Israel that is too often overlooked: its thriving gay community...
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Shoot and Cry
Movie
A powerful exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, territories occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six Days' War. The film documents the lives and encounters of two young men. About to begin his military service, Tal, an eighteen-year-old Israeli, is torn be...
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My Heart Attack
Movie
This animated short from Sheldon Cohen (The Sweater) tells the true story of a "nice Jewish boy with Buddhist inclinations" who suffers a heart attack. At the crossroads of documentary and animation, the film combines wry humour and philosophical musings to show that, sometimes, what feels like t...
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Memorandum
Movie
This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazis. He and 30 other former Jewish inmates travel through the new Germany. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The...
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The Bible of Business
1 season
THE BIBLE OF BUSINESS is a step by step telling of how to really start and grow a business, delivered from 15 founders of world renown Israeli and American companies. An interactive series that reveals the backgrounds and strategies of famous Jewish Entrepreneurs. PLUS, tips from business profess...
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Man on the Bus
Movie
The true story of a Polish Holocaust survivor who led a double life in Melbourne, and her daughter Eve, a psychologist and filmmaker, who discovered the deception that upended her life.
"I think I may be your sister." These words, spoken by an absolute stranger to Eve Ash, a noted Australian psy...
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Laura Adler's Last Love Affair
Movie
Yiddish live theater, a formerly lively theatrical form, is barely sustained by a few aging aficionados and its loyal but aged audience. Laura Adler is a big star of one of these troupes. She is attractive, middle-aged and quite content to spend her days performing obscure theater in her backwate...
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Boy 23: The Forgotten Boys of Brazil
Movie
The film follows the research of historian Sidney Aguilar, beginning with the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas on a farm in the countryside of São Paulo. It reveals something really frightening: during the 1930's, fifty black boys were taken from an orphanage in Rio de Janeiro and l...
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Playing for Peace
Movie
In the middle of the Negev Desert lies the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. Home to the football club HaPoel Be’er Sheva, the city has equal number of Muslim and Jewish residents and sits only 20 km south of the West Bank. Hapoel Be’er Sheva was plagued by a 40-year championship drought until a new o...
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Scaling Chutzpah
1 season
In this lively, informative, and engaging series, dozens of inspiring and wildly successful entrepreneurs reveal what it took - personally and practically - to create successful businesses and non-profit organizations. From operating a line of passenger cruise ships, to inventing industry-changin...
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Still Alive (Noch Am Leben)
Movie
Haunted from the beginning to the very end, Still Alive (Noch Am Leben) is the story of a woman’s recollection of her mad Holocaust survivor great aunt. Through the ghetto to cradling her dying sister, Eva Nagler left her mind on the beaches of the Baltic Sea during one of the largest death march...
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Grassroots In Dry Lands
Movie
'Grassroots in Dry Lands' tells the story of three unconventional social workers united by a common vision that transcends the antagonisms between their countries. Nuha, from Nablus (Occupied Palestinian Territories), Talal, from East Amman (Jordan), and Amit, from Sderot (Israel) are empowering ...
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Carl Laemmle
Movie
Discover the extraordinary life story of Carl Laemmle, the German-Jewish immigrant who founded Universal Pictures, and saved over 300 Jewish families from Nazi Germany.
"A riveting, fast-paced film that pays a long-overdue tribute to one of the cinema's more courageous risk-takers, a man who was...
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State of Alert: Israel Style
Movie
Why is the Belgian Minister for Security, Jan Jambon, looking at ‘city tanks’ in Tel Aviv? Recent suicide attacks in Paris, Brussels, Nice and Berlin have greatly increased focus on civilian safety in Europe. More and more, politicians, security experts and the media refer to Israel as a model of...
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Glickman
Movie
Before Marv Albert and Bob Costas, there was Marty Glickman. A gifted Jewish-American athlete who was denied the chance to represent the U.S. at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he went on to become one of the most revered and influential sportscasters in history, pioneering many of the techniques, phra...
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Children of Jerusalem
1 season
Children of Jerusalem is a series of seven documentary films directed by Beverly Shaffer, a Canadian filmmaker, between 1991 and 1996. The series shows the life in Jerusalem from the distinct points of view of the municipality's children of various cultural, economic, social and religious backgro...
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Our Hebrews
Movie + 2 extras
Little Jerusalem: that is how the locals refer to the town of Pitigliano in southern Tuscany, because of its striking resemblance to Israel’s ancient city. Through the medieval stone walls, the fascinating story of 400 years of harmonic co-existence between Jews and Christians is told for the fir...
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Thank God for India
Movie
A documentary that deals with the generation gap between the young Israeli travelers in India and the conformities of society in Israel today. The film also takes a look at the new Israeli sub-culture that has developed in India as a result of this gap. We see that for the young Israelis, India i...
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Raised to be Heroes
Movie
Featuring haunting accounts from the front lines, 'Raised to Be Heroes' introduces the latest generation of Israeli soldiers to selectively object to military operations undertaken by their country. After years of executing missions against the Palestinians, often involving violence and oppressio...
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I Am a Mountain Jew
Movie
From director Nisan Katz, 'I Am a Mountain Jew' tells the untold story of the descendants of Jews who lived in the mountains of the Caucasus. The film follows a group of these young mountain Jews who immigrated to Israel many years ago and are now embarking on a journey to the caucuses to explore...
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Diameter of the Bomb
Movie
Since the renewed Intifada began in 2000, there have been over 75 Palestinian suicide bombings. This is the story of one, the bombing of Bus 32 in Jerusalem in June 2002. The film connects the stories of a group of ordinary Israelis - Jews and Arabs. Each of them holds a clue to someone who died ...