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  • Call Me Back: The Uncommon Wisdom of Yvette Slosch

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    Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Linda Lavin returns as infamous New York City talent agent, Yvette Slosch - determined to make a star out of her newest client, jazz violinist, Aaron Weinstein (himself). She refuses to let Aaron's lack of name recognition, jazz's dwindling fan base, or the 2020...

  • In the Shadow of Memory

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    Tragedies play out for years. IN THE SHADOW OF MEMORY focuses on Jerri Zbiral, the daughter of a survivor of the Nazi destruction of the Catholic village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Even though Jerri was born after the war, her mother’s stories had a profound effect on her life. This compelling st...

  • Boardwalk

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    Starring Lee Strasberg (The Godfather Part II), Ruth Gordon (Harold & Maude) and Janet Leigh (Psycho)! | Married for 50 loving years, David (Lee Strasberg) and Becky (Ruth Gordon) have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for most of their life together. But the area is not what it used to...

  • Colliding Dreams

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    Award-winning filmmakers Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky recount the dramatic history of one of the most controversial, and urgently relevant political ideologies of the modern era. The century-old conflict in the Middle East continues to play a central role in world politics. And yet, amidst thi...

  • Soul Exodus

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    A deeply emotional story told through Klezmer music about identity, emigration, faith and disbelief. Once upon a time, there lived a musician and storyteller named Prince Nazaroff. Many people don’t believe he even existed, but these five modern-day musicians from across the world do. They call t...

  • Joe's Violin

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    A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old school girl from Bronx, and unexpectedly, his own. A poignant story about the power of music and small acts connecting people across generations and cultures.

    Directed ...

  • Leaving the Fold

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    What happens when a person is born a Hasidic Jew, but knows that they don’t belong?

    Filmed in Montreal, New York and Israel. Leaving the Fold is a documentary film, which tells the story of five young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on t...

  • Crescendo

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    When a world-famous conductor (Peter Simonischek, "Toni Erdmann") starts an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, it will take all his skill to inspire these talented young men and women to play in harmony.

    "A revelation! Wonderful characters, genuine emotion, music and witty dialog... I love thi...

  • Jewish Folks Telling Jokes

    1 season

    Prepare to Plotz! Jewish Folks Telling Jokes is sure to make you laugh out loud. These compilations of hilarious live joke performances celebrate the humor that reflect our culture and honors those that have the special gift of ‘telling a good story.’ Enjoy as members of our community share the s...

  • My Mother's Lost Children

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    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 ...

  • Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen

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    Produced in 1965, this intimate portrait of the legendary Leonard Cohen captures his life as an acclaimed poet and novelist before he launched his career as a singer-songwriter in 1967. Follow Cohen through his hometown of Montreal as he performs his poetry for rapt audiences, makes television ap...

  • Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort

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    Kutsher's Country Club was the last surviving Jewish resort in the Catskills. One of the legendary Borscht Belt hotels during its heyday, Kutsher's was family-owned and operated for over 100 years, until its sale and demolition in 2014. Exploring the full Dirty Dancing-era Catskills experience th...

  • Watermarks

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    Yaron Zilberman's "wonderful, heartwarming" (LA Times) film Watermarks narrates the story of the champion women swimmers of the legendary Vienna sports club Hakoah. Founded in 1909 in response to the notorious Aryan Paragraph, which forbade most Austrian sports clubs from accepting Jewish athlete...

  • Hitler's Hollywood

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    Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Hitler’s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals...

  • About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Allied Forces

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    Narrated by Peter Coyote - Featuring Music by the legendary John Cale! | Between 1933 and 1941, hundreds of thousands of Jewish children left Europe for the U.S. and Great Britain. Between 1941 and 1945, tens of thousands went back….all grown up, heavily armed, and ready to strike back. This comp...

  • Fort McCoy

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    Eric Stoltz gives one of his most powerful performances as Frank Stirn, who moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army and POW camp at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1944. Embittered that he cannot fight, Frank must take a stand when a Nazi SS Officer threatens his wi...

  • The Braid presents StoryNosh

    4 seasons

    What is StoryNosh? A digital storytelling series served up in delicious bite-size pieces. Think of it as a grab-n-go story for the 21st-century soul. Each season explores an important theme through a Jewish lens. This collection of hilarious, heartbreaking and inspiring short stories are from wr...

  • The YidLife Crisis Guide to Love and Sex

    1 season

    With Valentine's Day upon us, the YidLife guys turn to a married Orthodox couple - both rabbis - to answer all their questions about dating, loving and sex. Featuring Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold and Rabbi Avi Finegold.

    Parental Advisory: Suitable for Audiences 18 and Up

    By Eli Batalion and J...

  • Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

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    What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a techn...

  • The Starfish

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    'The Starfish' is the true story of a German-Jew, who at the age of 10, was taken in by a non-Jewish family in Sweden to escape Nazi persecution, and the events of his life that led him to return to Sweden 60 years later to try and reunite with that family.

    Directed by Tyler Gildin
    United States...

  • Nicky's Family

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    Meet the real-life "British Schindler" Sir Nicholas Winton, soon to be portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins in the upcoming feature film "One Life"!

    Nicky's Family is a gripping documentary that tells the mostly unknown story of Sir Nicholas Winton, a young Englishman who organized the rescue of 669...

  • Witness Theater

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    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...

  • Miss
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    Miss

    Movie

    Photographer Olive returns from work to find her new flatmate, Nina rummaging through her room. Unbeknownst to Olive, Nina is about to miss the deadline to join a beauty pageant dedicated to Adolf Hitler and is in desperate need for photos for the application. She begs Olive to help her take them...

  • We Shall Not Die Now

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    We Shall Not Die Now chronicles the Holocaust, when, between 1939 and 1945, over six million Jews and millions of others were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime.

    Seventy-five years after the conclusion of the war, the film explores not only the horrific human tragedy and what we can lea...