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  • Nora's Will
    Movie + 1 extra

    Nora's Will

    Movie + 1 extra

    Nora's Will is a comedy like nothing you've seen before, a truly unique tale of lost faith and eternal love from one of Mexico’s most talented filmmakers, writer/director Mariana Chenillo. Nora's Will was named Mexico’s Best Picture of the Year, taking home seven Ariel Awards. Chenillo is the fir...

  • In Search of Israeli Cuisine

    Movie + 1 extra

    Join award-winning Chef Michael Solomonov on a delicious journey to meet Israel's top chefs, home cooks, vintners, and cheese-makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today, and discover the rich and human story that emerges from their food.

    Directed by Roger Sherman
    U...

  • Episode 15: Passover! | Checkout (Season 2)

  • Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream

    Movie + 4 extras

    For more than 90 years, the Streit’s matzo factory sat in a low-slung tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. While other matzo companies modernized, Streit’s remained a piece of living history, churning out 40 percent of the nation’s unleavened bread on pre-War machinery as old as the ...

  • Crumbs

    Movie

    CRUMBS is based on the true story of the last Passover Seder in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943. Told from a perspective of a member of the hated "Judenrat," (Jewish Police), the audience will witness the intimate and volatile confrontations between Jews of different religious backgrounds, sp...

  • Live and Become

    Movie

    The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s p...

  • Episode 4: Coming Out of Bondage | YidLife Crisis (Season 2)

    On the eve of Passover, Chaimie coaxes Leizer to come out for a bit.

  • Seder Trek

    Movie

    Director Shachar Zefania set out to Nepal to shoot two different films: The first, about the largest Passover Seder in the world taking place in the Katmandu valley, and the second, a journey in the spectacular Nepalese Himalayan mountains, a breathtaking trek to Gokyo peak. Preparations for the ...

  • The Maccabeats

    1 season

    Often traveling with little more than the shirts on their backs and the ties on their necks, the Maccabeats have entertained and inspired audiences worldwide, from Alabama to (New) Zealand and everywhere in between. Using nothing more than the unadulterated human voice, a clean-cut presentation, ...

  • Nicky's Family

    Movie

    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...

  • 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...

  • Division Ave.

    Movie

    A few days before Passover, Fernanda (Lorena Rodriguez), a young Mexican woman, is hired by a Brooklyn cleaning agency to work in the local Jewish Hasidic community. Despite a prolonged wait for her payment, Fernanda continues to faithfully show up for work each day at the home of Nehama (Michal ...

  • Rhythm 'N' Ruach

    3 seasons

    Rhythm 'N' Ruach is a hands-on educational program that intertwines Jewish music and rhythm instruments, along with offering fantastic programming that is engaging and fun. Our bright colors help encourage the "joyful learner," teaching new Hebrew words, phonics, and instruments in each class, wh...

  • The Promise of Paradise | The Braid

    Master storyteller Vicki Juditz’s story begins in the waiting room of her 15-year-old daughter’s therapist’s office. After her husband’s suicide, her daughter is struggling and blames her for ruining her life. Worst of all, the teenager can’t believe her beloved dad is in “Heaven,” because Vick...