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In one of the final photos posted to his Facebook page before his death in 2018, Stan Lee poses on a motorcycle with Captain America's iconic shield.
Posted inFilm

An afternoon out with Stan Lee and Captain America

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 5, 2019March 5, 2019
Zdeněk Toman (played by Jiří Macháček) kept his Jewish identity secret in order to advance his career in postwar Prague. (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inFilm

With Iron Curtain falling, secret Czech Jew played both sides

by Dan Pine March 4, 2019
Ethiopian Jewish teenager Mina and her boyfriend Eli in ‘Fig Tree’
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘Fig Tree,’ an Ethiopian family uproots to settle in Israel

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 1, 2019
Team Israel at the 2017 World Baseball Classic qualifier final in Brooklyn (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films)
Posted inFilm

Israel’s baseball underdogs who nearly won it all get documentary treatment

by Rob Gloster February 28, 2019March 1, 2019
"A Bag of Marbles" will screen at the 2019 Carmel Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inTV & Film

Around the world with the Carmel Jewish Film Festival

by J. Staff February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Matthew Broderick (left) plays a biology teacher and Geza Rohrig a Hasidic Jew who seeks his advice after the death of his wife. (Photo/All About the 360, Inc.)
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘To Dust,’ a Hasidic cantor and a biology teacher grapple with death

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier and JTA February 25, 2019
Still from "Promise at Dawn," one of 40 films at this year's East Bay International Jewish Film Festival
Posted inTV & Film

Jewishness of East Bay Jewish film fest picks ‘not always obvious’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull February 21, 2019February 20, 2019
Adam Driver, left, and John David Washington in a scene from Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman." (Photo/David Lee-Focus Features)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

The Tribe goes to the Oscars, 2019

by Nate Bloom February 19, 2019February 19, 2019
Menny (Moshe Folkenflik) is a religious man who picks up his old guitar again to raise funds for his sick child in “Redemption.” (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inCulture

‘Redemption’ lies between rock (’n’ roll) and a hard place

by Michael Fox February 15, 2019
a man and woman hold their faces close together, gazing into each other's eyes
Posted inFilm

Personal reinvention goes tragically awry in ‘A Fortunate Man’

by Michael Fox February 14, 2019February 15, 2019

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