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The Bentwich Syndrome
Movie
The saga of a restless and relentless Anglo-Jewish Family which according to its founding fathers, served as God's gift to Zionism, is exposed by the director, a member of the family himself, from an alternative humorous angle.
Nominated for Best Documentary | Israeli Ophir Awards 2015
Directed...
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The Archive
Movie
The Archive tells the incredible story of David Drucker, a lawyer in 1940s America. Employed by the Soviet Union and communist China to broker trade deals with the west, his work quickly brought him to the attention of J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Always traveling with...
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Liberation, Dignity, Resilience, Compassion -The Story of Le Chambon
Movie
Discover the inspiring, little-known story of Le Chambon, a Huguenot village in France who took in close to 5,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust at great risk to themselves. With little financial resources, an act of defiance and spiritual audacity, this small town makes its mark in the his...
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An Encounter with Simone Weil
Movie
What response does seeing human suffering demand of us? Filmmaker Julia Haslett seeks an answer in the life and work of controversial French thinker, activist, and mystic Simone Weil (1909-1943) –– a woman Albert Camus described as “the only great spirit of our time.”
"A profound and moving film...
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Witness Theater
Movie
Filmmaker Oren Rudavsky follows the journeys of Holocaust survivors and high school students as they share stories of loss, struggle, and lives rebuilt and experience the healing power of intergenerational relationships, culminating in the public performance of a play based on the survivors’ stor...
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My Mother's Lost Children
Movie
Sprawling across four continents, My Mother’s Lost Children is the story of Melbourne filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe’s (Shalom Bollywood) extraordinary, truth-is-stranger-than-fiction family story. Growing up in the Yiddish-speaking East End of London, Ben-Moshe’s mother, Lillian, was 15 when met and ...
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The Ride: Overcoming the Impossible
Movie
A diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma is basically a painful death sentence. Moshe a 65 year old survivor, celebrates the outcomes of his battle with a 125-mile bike ride, full of its own challenges and surprises along the way. Experience how a positive attitude, support, an educated proactive patient ...
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Odessa... Odessa!
Movie
Take a journey across three Odessas – from Odessa, Ukraine to “Little Odessa” New York and Ashdod, Israël – revealing the wanderings, hopes and illusions of the vanishing Odessa Jewish community.
CICAE Arthouse Prize | Berlin International Film Festival 2005
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Human Failure
Movie
Award-winning filmmaker Michael Verhoeven ("The White Rose", "The Nasty Girl") goes on a search to unearth evidence documenting one of the greatest robberies in human history - the expropriation of assets from German Jews during the Third Reich.
This benefited virtually every German citizen. It ...
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Scandal in Ivansk
Movie
In the small Polish town of Ivansk, one word ignites a nationwide controversy. Most of Ivansk’s Jews were killed by the Nazis, and the headstones in the Jewish cemetery were plundered for construction purposes. A group of descendants of Ivansk Jews restore the town’s cemetery, retrieving what hea...
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Tunnel of Hope
Movie
The unbelievable escape story of the grandmother of Jared Kushner...
In 1943, 250 Jewish slave workers successfully escaped from a Nazi labor camp in Novogrudok, Belarus, via a tunnel they dug. The film follows the remaining escapees, accompanied by their descendants, in an attempt to find the t...
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My Grandparents Had a Hotel
Movie
Award-winning filmmaker Karen Shopsowitz shares the precious, nostalgic story of The Monteith Inn, located in Canada's Muskokas region (known as "The Malibu of the North"), which was run by her grandparents, Harry and Jennie Shopsowitz, from 1935–49. Originally seen as a haven for Canadian (and A...
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America Undiscovered
1 season
Journey across North America in this original and imaginative documentary series showcasing engaging and uplifting stories of amazing Jewish individuals and communities that have been overlooked or undiscovered. Hosted by Susan Neisloss, the series brings to light positive stories about the uniqu...
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Why The Jews?
Movie
The stunning accomplishments of the Jews raise a question no film has dared ask before. How do they do it? Some of the world’s most prominent thinkers (including Nobel Prize laureate Shimon Peres, chess genius Judit Polgar, radical thinker Noam Chomsky, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer and star ...
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The Impure
Movie
A dark story which took place in Argentina in the early 20th century. The “Impure” was how the Argentinian Jewish pimps were called by the “normal” Jewish community. They were vicious organization leaders and brothel owners who practiced religious lives while trafficking thousands of unfortunate ...
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Rabin In His Own Words
Movie + 1 extra
Rabin In His Own Words is an “autobiography” of sorts, the story is told entirely in Rabin’s own voice. Through a combination of rare archival footage, home movies and private letters, his personal and professional dramas unfold before the viewer's eyes - from his childhood as the son of a labor ...
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Gefilte
Movie
The story of one American-Jewish family’s obsession with gefilte fish and the ritual of making it – in huge quantities – every Passover. As the Hermelins all agree, like Proust’s madeleine, the beloved dish is so much more than just food: it’s also memories, tradition and what binds them together...
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Sacred Sperm
Movie
An eye-opening documentary explaining the concept of sacred sperm within the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community which considers new life pure if born of “sacred sperm” and the spilling of sperm murder. In this documentary Director/Narrator Or Yashar shares his journey as he tries to fully un...
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Inside Hana's Suitcase
Movie
The delivery of a battered suitcase to Fumiko Ishioka at the Tokyo Holocaust Museum begins the true-life mystery that became the subject of Karen Levineʼs best-selling book Hanaʼs Suitcase. The suitcase came from the Auschwitz Museum and had Hana Bradyʼs name painted on it. Larry Weinsteinʼs mast...
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Shalom Bollywood
Movie
A celebration of the all-singing, all-dancing history of the world’s largest film industry, Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the 2000 year old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. At the advent of the Indian cinema industry, i...
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Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story
Movie
People from all over the world have come to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret for his surreal short stories and his hilarious live performances. As The Guardian wrote: “Spending time with him is like entering the world of his stories: suddenly, everything seems slightly off-kilter, full of comic po...
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Egg Cream
Movie
EGG CREAM is a short film about the enduring meaning of a beloved chocolate soda drink born on the Jewish Lower East Side. The egg cream contained neither eggs nor cream – it was a product of necessity and hardship, but a source of joy and sweetness. Through and a tour of egg cream establishments...
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Every Face Has A Name
Movie
What is it like to be captured during war and mistaken for being a spy? How is it to live six years in hiding dressed like a girl, when you are a young boy? What happens when you have experienced such gruesome things, that you are trying to keep your own memory away? In Every face has a name Elsi...
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SuperJew
1 season
Brandon Cohen is becoming... a SuperJew! Each week, he'll leave the Upper West Side for Crown Heights to take a dive in the deep end of the mikvah. Mildly curious, usually skeptical, Brandon is about to ditch Tinder for the tefillin and experience all that traditional Jewish life has to offer.
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