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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...
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Why We March
Movie
Follow three Holocaust survivors on a six-day trip across Poland as they re-visit the death camps they were imprisoned in. From the killing field of Majdanek to the infamous Auschwitz camp, the survivors tell their stories and share their lives with the younger generation in order to make sure hi...
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The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
Movie + 3 extras
For over 50 years, the Catskill Mountains of New York State were the summer retreat of millions of Jews, mostly of Eastern European origin, from New York City. The “Borscht Belt” – as it was affectionately known – became the model for vacation practices throughout the United States, and the train...
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The Patriarch's Room
Movie
In 2005, the elderly Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem was accused of selling properties to Jewish Settlers. He was deposed and confined to his room in the Old City for eleven years. Documentarian Danae Elon (Another Road Home, P.S. Jerusalem) forges a special relationship with ...
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The Heart of Auschwitz
Movie
A filmmaker goes on a search to discover how a beautiful hand made birthday book came to be within the walls of a concentration camp, who its makers were, and how it came to survive the horrors of war and decades after to end up in the Holocaust memorial in Montreal. This feature documentary is t...
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The Tattooed Torah
Movie + 1 extra
A family-friendly animation film narrated by Ed Asner! Over the last three decades, the beloved children’s book by Marvell Ginsburg has been a powerful resource for Holocaust education. The Tattooed Torah brings to life the true story of the rescue and restoration of a small Torah from Brno, Czec...
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Born in Jerusalem and Still Alive
Movie
Deftly blending romantic comedy with the complexities of modern life (in a style reminiscent of Albert Brooks), BORN IN JERUSALEM AND STILL ALIVE is a sensitive and hilarious debut from director, writer and star Yossi Atia, featuring rising international star Lihi Kornowski (Losing Alice).
While...
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P.S. Jerusalem
Movie
Filmmaker Danae Elon returns to Jerusalem after living abroad for several years. 'P.S. Jerusalem' is about a family's personal journey to establish themselves in Jerusalem in a quest to find a place they can call "home."
"A cross between home movie and documentary essay, P.S. Jerusalem emerges a...
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Hanna's Sleeping Dogs
Movie
Starring legendary German actress Hannelore Elsner ("To Life")! | There‘s a very good reason why you should let sleeping dogs lie, as 9-year-old Johanna discovers. Growing up a good Catholic girl in the provincial Austrian town of Wels in the late 1960s, she learns from her grandmother her family...
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Covered Up
Movie
The personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.
Directed by...
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The Wonderful Kingdom of Papa Alaev
Movie
A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a legendary Tajik-Israeli musical family controlled by the charismatic patriarch Papa Alaev. Only his equally strong-willed daughter, Ada, dares to resist his will. As Papa nears 80 and generations clash over new musical directions, the family show must go on...
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It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
Movie
In 1939, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two young émigrés from Berlin, founded the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records in New York. The label dedicated itself exclusively to the recording of American jazz music and developed its own unmistakeable recording style and sound. Blue Note Records di...
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Beneath the Silence
Movie
Starring Amos Tamam (Netflix's "The Girl From Oslo")! | Israel 1973. Six years after the Six Day War, Menashe is still deeply traumatized by his experiences as a soldier. He withdraws from society and spends hours aimlessly driving around in his red pickup. His young wife Daphna and their 10-year...
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Leon the Pig Farmer
Movie
An award-winning cult classic from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this irreverent British comedy follows Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), a sensitive Jewish boy from London who accidentally learns that he is the product of a sperm bank mix-up proving that he is the son of a Yorksh...
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Lieber-Man
Movie
The meteoric rise of Avigdor Lieberman was the first sign of a new era in the state of Israel - and with it, the fall of "the old elites," the right wing trend, and the emergence of "the second Israel" as the dominant political force. But Lieberman himself, who immigrated at the age of 20, withou...
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My Mexican Shivah
Movie
Set in Polanco (a Jewish quarter of Mexico City), family and friends sit shivah for their beloved patriarch Moishe, forcing them to confront each other - including a Catholic ex-lover, an Orthodox ex-convict grandson and a troupe of mariachi musicians. MY MEXICAN SHIVAH is a hilarious comedy abou...
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"King Bibi" and the Israeli Elections: A Conversation with Anshel Pfeffer
Movie
ChaiFlicks is honored to be joined by renowned Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer for a very special discussion about today's Israeli elections and the film KING BIBI!
Anshel Pfeffer is currently a senior correspondent for Haaretz and Israel correspondent for The Economist. He is the author of a ...
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Here and Now
Movie
Andrey (Vlad Dubinsky) is a young immigrant living with his little sister in the slums of the city of Ashdod and struggling to assimilate into Israeli society. He forms a hip-hop band with his three best friends with dreams of taking part in a local hip-hop competition, but the realities of life ...
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Happy Times
Movie
Michael Aloni (Shtisel, Plan A), Mike Burstyn (Sallah), Liraz Chamami (Asylum City) and a bevy of Israeli talent star in this outrageous dark comedy! | A boorish Israeli-American couple plan a Sabbath dinner party for a group of fellow ex-pat friends and family in their Hollywood Hills mansion. W...
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Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops
Movie
Filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to hundreds of American performers who assisted the military in World War II with rare period performances by beloved Jewish artists such as Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye and Mel Blanc, plus Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, the And...
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The Dreamers
Movie
Orthodox women Ruchama and Tikva embark on a journey to fulfill their dream of making movies within their closed society. Like other orthodox women who in recent years have started making films for strictly female audiences, they feel a strong need to express themselves despite strict rabbinical ...
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In the Land of Pomegranates
Movie
The pomegranate is the fruit of the land, a symbol of rejuvenation and rebirth. It is also a euphemism for a hand grenade. From the Academy Award-nominated director of 'The Restless Conscious' comes a suspenseful, multi-layered documentary centered on a group of young people born into a violent, ...
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Irwin & Fran
Movie
Narrated by Susan Sarandon! | At 100 years old, Professor Irwin Corey finally reveals the magic behind his subversive and sophisticated double-talk. Irwin and his chain-smoking wife, confidante and #1 fan, Fran, afford filmmaker Jordan Stone intimate access to their lives and the inner workings o...
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Ewa
Movie
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to "Eyes Wide Open," celebrated Israeli director Haim Tabakman’s new film EWA is a moving drama about married life and the secrets couples keep from each other. When farmer Yoel finds out his wife Ewa owns a property he didn’t know existed, her hidden life comes ...