An Israeli graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem received the top student film award at Cannes last week. Or Sinai won first place for her short film, ANNA. She was one...
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Manhattan’s NOJFF: Naturally Occurring Jewish Film Fest
Once every 19 years – or so I heard – a Jewish Film Fest naturally occurs in Manhattan. It is a Naturally Occurring JFF, not to be confused with an Aging In Place NORC Retirement...
Oscar Nominees Might Lose A Statue, But They Win Ten Nights on Rehov Sheinkin
Goodbye Birthright Hello Spotlight This year, 26 of the top category Oscar nominees and presenters will get gift bags containing among other things a coupon for a tour of Tokyo, sessions with a...
What’s Hot at Sundance 2016
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and already a film has been purchased… by Amazon. One can say that this is representative of the market for indie films… that Amazon and Netflix and...
Leading Change in Lod
As the son of a Conservative rabbi, Daniel Hammerman, 22, grew up surrounded by all things Judaism and Israel. “I felt very connected at a young age,” the Stamford, Connecticut native...
The Israeli of Wet Hot American Summer
In 2001, twenty two years after “Meatballs,” David Wain and Michael Showalter premiered Wet Hot American Summer. A comedy film about the last day of camp at Camp Firewood during the...
Why I Love Israel Better When I’m Not In It
I’m not the only American Jew with a love/hate relationship with Israel, but my reasons are psycho-social, not political. During the past ten (!) years of my life, I’ve lived in Israel...
The New Republic Shamefully Published a Disgusting Cartoon on Binyamin Netanyahu
– – Shame on you The New Republic! At the end of last year a host of writers and editors fled The New Republic in protest of the editorial changes made by its new owner, Chris Hughes, who...