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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
Edith Sheffer
Posted inBooks

Two Bay Area scholars shortlisted for Lynton prize for American nonfiction

by J. Staff February 27, 2019March 6, 2019
When Avishai (Gidi Gov) dies the day before being awarded a Nobel Prize, his best friends conspire to hide the truth for just long enough in “Stockholm.” (Photo/Courtesy EBIJFF)
Posted inTV

Friendship calls from beyond the grave in Israeli TV comedy ‘Stockholm’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 27, 2019February 27, 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
One part of “Obsessive,” a two-piece artwork by Edith Kallman lost in the fire.
Posted inBay Area

After fires consume graffiti art, daughter finds way to honor mom

by Rob Gloster February 21, 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
Torah ark key inscribed in Hebrew "gift to the great synagogue," Northern Italy, 1724-1725
Posted inCulture

With ‘Memory Objects,’ immigrants carried their own history

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller February 20, 2019February 22, 2019

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