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Security guard Frank Collins confronts NAG protester Marvis Saunders at Glen Echo Amusement Park on June 30, 1960. (Courtesy SFJFF)
Posted inTV & Film

S.F. Jewish Film Festival: ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’ revisits first Black-Jewish civil rights protest

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 8, 2024July 12, 2024
"Shari & Lamb Chop" is the opening night selection of this year's San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival 2024: New venues, new voices and a guest festival director

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten July 3, 2024July 12, 2024
Claude Rains wears a tricorn and a tallis as Haym Salomon in a still from "Sons of Liberty" from 1939. (Screenshot)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Saluting Jewish founding father Haym Salomon this Independence Day

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky July 3, 2024July 3, 2024
A group of schoolchildren read a news magazine in "June Zero," a new film depicting the Eichmann trial's reception in Israel. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
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‘June Zero’: Film dramatizes Adolf Eichmann’s trial through the eyes of Israelis adjacent to it

by Stephen Silver July 1, 2024July 1, 2024
Anouk Aimée in "La Dolce Vita"
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What the world has lost with the death of Anouk Aimée

by Robert Zaretsky June 27, 2024June 27, 2024
Malik Akram, left, holds a gun to Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker in a scene from the "Colleyville" documentary. (Courtesy of Hey Jude Productions)
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With never-before-seen security cam footage, movie brings viewers inside tense hostage crisis at Texas synagogue

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen June 24, 2024June 24, 2024
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
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Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’

by Toby Axelrod June 17, 2024June 17, 2024
A view of the topographical map inside the "Hollywoodland" exhibit. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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How I helped bring the story of Hollywood’s Jewish founders to the Academy Museum — where it belongs

Sharon Rosen Leib by Sharon Rosen Leib June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
A view of the topographical map inside the "Hollywoodland" exhibit. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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L.A.’s Academy Museum to revise exhibit on Jewish founders after criticism from Jewish Hollywood figures

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis June 11, 2024June 14, 2024
Jewish pro-Palestinian activists protest Birthright in a scene from the documentary "Israelism" (Photo/JTA/Tikkun Olam Productions)
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‘Israelism,’ the progressive Jewish documentary roiling college campuses, gets digital release with Watermelon Pictures

by Andrew Lapin June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

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