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  • Dirty Bomb

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    Signing his own death wish, a concentration camp prisoner (Ido Samuel, "We Were The Lucky Ones", "FBI: International", "Fill the Void") sabotages the construction of the V-2 bomb against the Nazi's, while American soldiers struggle to advance against the Germans.

    Directed by Valerie McCaffrey wi...

  • Israel Swings for Gold

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    In 2021, Israel’s baseball team competes in the Olympics for the first time. With no media allowed in the Olympic Village in Tokyo, the players record their own experiences. Mostly newly minted Israelis, they log unexpected battles against global anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Victory comes on t...

  • My Father's Secrets

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    Academy Award nominee Elliott Gould stars in this animated adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel by Michel Kichka. In 1960’s Belgium, Michel and Charly enjoy a happy childhood - but their mysterious father refuses to speak about his past. The two brothers imagine him as a great adventurer, pi...

  • Jamie Geller’s Hanukkah Favorites

    1 season

    Celebrate the Festival of Lights with Jamie Geller’s Hanukkah Favorites: a delicious video series featuring creative latkes, festive doughnuts, and savory delights like Za'atar Chicken and Falafel Waffles—all perfect for your holiday table!

    Known as the "Jewish Rachael Ray" (NYT), best-selling J...

  • From the River to the Sea?

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    Brasil Paralelo presents its new production, an international film about the war between israel and Palestine, which presents an unprecedented and unfiltered view of the conflict in the Middle East. This is not just a conflict over territory, but a profound clash between values, histories, and wo...

  • Front Window

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    An ode to filmmaking. A still photographer’s car breaks down en route to his wedding. Before him, a bride waits on a balcony – in her wedding gown. The photographer observes reality through his windscreen as it becomes interwoven with the world of film in his imagination, through a series of refe...

  • Aida's Secrets

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    In this moving documentary, the discovery of records from WWII sparks a family’s quest for answers as two brothers separated as babies reunite with each other and their elderly mother, who hid more from them than just each other.Izak Szewelwicz was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp...

  • Less Than Kosher
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    Less Than Kosher

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    At 20, Viv (Shaina Silver-Baird) was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when this self proclaimed "bad Jew" lands ass-backwards into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she’s thrown into a wild ride of illicit aff...

  • Kiss Me Kosher

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    Moran Rosenblatt ("Fauda") and John Carroll Lynch ("Fargo") star in KISS ME KOSHER, a romantic misadventure crossing all borders. When two generations of Israeli women - one of whom falls for a German woman and the other a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don’t fit but...

  • Saving Dror

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    “Saving Dror” is centered around a first-person testimony from Kibbutz Be’eri member Sagi Shifroni who endured the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel’s southern border. Shifroni’s Kibbutz Be’eri was at the epicenter of the October 7 attack, with over 100 of its members killed and 30 kidnapped by Hamas on t...

  • Bride Flight

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    Co-Starring Rutger Hauer! | This lavish romantic drama charts the lives of three women who escape the gloom of post-WWII Holland for what they hope will be a better life in New Zealand. Ada, the shy but sensual farm girl, Marjorie, who dreams of a big family, and Esther, a Holocaust survivor who ...

  • To Dust

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    Shmuel (Geza Rohrig, Son of Saul) a Hasidic cantor, distraught by his wife’s untimely death, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick, The Producers), a community college biology ...

  • After Munich

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    Whether you witnessed it live, learnt about it or never even heard of the Munich Massacre at all - this event changed your life. September 5th 1972, the tenth day of the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist group Black September stormed the Israeli athletes' quarters. The world watched live...

  • My Name is Sara

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    MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is ...

  • Culinary Judaics Academy

    1 season

    Culinary Judaics Academy is an empowering and meaningful program for ALL in the Jewish world - no matter your age, affiliation or practice - which uses cooking as a vehicle to teach about Jewish values, holidays, Torah, Israel and more! Cook and learn together with the enthusiastic father-daughte...

  • Arranged

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    Two beautiful young teachers in Brooklyn - one an Orthodox Jew (actor/director Zoe Lister-Jones, "Life in Pieces") and the other a Muslim - cross boundaries and flout conventions when they forge a powerful and lasting friendship, bonding over their shared experiences of "arranged marriages" throu...

  • Tiger Within

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    Featuring the final performance of Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Pixar’s UP), TIGER WITHIN presents an unlikely friendship between a homeless teen (newcomer Margot Josefsohn) and a Holocaust survivor which sparks larger questions of fear, love, forgiveness, healing, and r...

  • Foreign Letters

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    Sixth grade student Ellie experiences the hardships of moving to a new country when, in sixth grade, her family moves from Israel to the United States. As she struggles to make friends and learn the language, she meets an unlikely friend in Thuy — her Vietnamese classmate who is also a recent imm...

  • Minyan

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    A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss — and explores th...

  • The Tollbooth

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    THE TOLLBOOTH is a feature comedy that explores a Jewish family from Brooklyn through the eyes of Sarabeth Cohen... a struggling painter in her first year out of art school. Sarabeth and her older sisters Becky and Raquel come of age and question the values of their traditional parents.​

    The f...

  • Solomon Simon: Yiddish Writer and Pedagogue | Yiddish Book Center

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    The Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project presents a portrait of prolific writer and Jewish thinker Solomon Simon, through the lens of oral history.

    The prolific Yiddish writer Solomon Simon was born Shlomo Simonovich in a shtetl in what is now Belarus. At 13, he went to his first o...

  • Trust
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    Trust

    Movie + 1 extra

    Three siblings return to their family home in Los Angeles to reconcile over their mother's untimely death, but find themselves torn between mourning and greed.

    Between meeting with the Rabbi, funeral preparations, and sitting Shiva, Kate (Jennifer Levinson) has no time to process Mom’s absence. ...

  • The Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project

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    ChaiFlicks is proud to partner with the Yiddish Book Center to present a variety of documentary films from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project, including shorts featuring famed actor and director Leonard Nimoy (“Star Trek”).

    The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches,...

  • Who Will Remain?

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    The Yiddish Book Center presents "Who Will Remain?", a new feature documentary produced by The Wexler Oral History Project! | Attempting to better understand her grandfather Avrom Sutzkever, Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon travels to Lithuania, using her grandfather’s diary to trace his early life...