Dispatches from ‘Docs & Dialogues’
'A Shabbat on the Other Side of the River' and 'We Met at Grossinger’s' are two films screened at the recent 'Docs & Dialogues' series put on by Philadelphia Jewish Film & Media.
Film Review | Five Stars for Yoav Potash’s ‘Among Neighbors’
As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, both of whom are now gone from the earth, I have been listening all of my life to stories...
‘Sapiro V. Ford’ Is a Powerful David & Goliath Story
A new film about how a Jewish lawyer from San Francisco who brought a $1 million lawsuit against Henry Ford for libel in 1927.
Q&A | Jeff L. Lieberman, Director of New Bella Abzug Film
In her iconic big floppy hats and pearls, Bella Abzug was a strong, fierce, feminist force of the 1970s and beyond. Jeff L. Lieberman’s documentary...
Q&A | Shoshannah Stern, Director of New Marlee Matlin Doc, on Growing Up Jewish and Deaf
'Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore' is a PBS American Masters documentary directed by fellow Deaf actor Shoshannah Stern
Docaviv 2025: Tel Aviv Film Festival Navigates Bans and Boycotts
In Israel right now, even a film festival feels like a front line.
Film Review | ‘Centered’: How Senator Joe Lieberman Did it His Way
The new documentary "Centered" showcases the life and career of Senator Joe Lieberman, a supreme centrist who sang "My Way."
Who Was Jacob de Haan?
A new documentary explores the life and 1924 assassination of gay Haredi anti-Zionist Dutch Jewish poet and lawyer Jacob de Haan.
A Wide Open Conversation with Ken Burns and Michael Krasny
Filmmaker Ken Burns joins award-winning journalist Michael Krasny, retired public radio host of KQED Forum, for a wide open conversation about Burn’s just released book Our America: A Photographic History and the new three-part series The U.S. and the Holocaust.
This program is part of a Moment series on antisemitism supported by the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation.
The Rabbinical Student Tackling Chicago Gun Violence
What’s the answer to Chicago’s epidemic of gun crime?
According to Tamar Manasseh, the subject of the new documentary They Ain’t Ready for Me, which chronicles her fight against gun violence on the south side of Chicago, it’s, “Nobody wants to shoot anybody’s mother.”
Saul and Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band
To assume this is just another depressing Holocaust survivor film would be a huge mistake. Far from it. This outstanding documentary, about survival and the joys of living, is suffused with humor and boundless energy.
The Story of Der Moment
Moment has its origins in Eastern Europe. Leonard Fein and Elie Wiesel named Moment for the influential independent Yiddish-language Der Moment, founded in 1910 in Warsaw, Poland.