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Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, blows the shofar outside the building in the HBO documentary "A Tree of Life." (Photo/Courtesy HBO)
Posted inCulture

HBO’s documentary on the Tree of Life synagogue shooting arrives as the nation’s eyes are back on antisemitism

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 27, 2022
Ondi Timoner and her father Eli Timoner in "Last Flight Home," Ondi's film about Eli's assisted suicide. (Photo/MTV Documentary Films)
Posted inCulture

‘Last Flight Home’: A Jewish family helps their father end his life in new documentary

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 14, 2022October 18, 2022
"Charlotte," an animated WWII film about a German Jewish painter voiced by Keira Knightley, will screen as part of the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inCulture

Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival to feature stories of love, war and restitution

Lauren Hakimi by Lauren Hakimi October 12, 2022October 20, 2022
An anti-Nazi protest in America, seen in "The U.S. and The Holocaust."
Posted inLocal Voice

Ken Burns’ Holocaust series reminds us we are an anti-immigrant nation

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman September 20, 2022September 21, 2022
An immigrant family looking at Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island.
(Photo/Library of Congress)
Posted inUncategorized

Q&A: Ken Burns on his new series, ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 8, 2022April 13, 2024
Patients lay in beds in the “Syndrome K” unit at Fatebenefratelli Hospital. (Photo/JTA-“Syndrome K”-Freestyle Digital Media)
Posted inCulture

To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease

by Stephen Silver and JTA August 12, 2022August 12, 2022
Carmel Tanaka meets with Bay Area Jewpanese families participating in her oral history project: (from left) Daniel Raskin, Kayoko Yokoyama, Tanaka, Kristin Eriko Posner and Bryan Posner. (Photo/Courtesy Tanaka)
Posted inFilm

Growing ‘Jewpanese’ identity comes through in new oral history project

by Emma Goss July 12, 2022July 13, 2022
Nina Gordon-Kirsch in front of aqueducts in Antioch, which she passed on July 5, a week into her walk.
Posted inFilm

Jewish ‘water warrior’ walks 200 miles to trace the East Bay’s water source

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene July 11, 2022July 19, 2022
Leonard Bernstein
(Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
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S.F. Jewish Film Fest: How Leonard Bernstein embraced his Jewishness — and changed the world

by Julia M. Klein and Forward July 11, 2022July 26, 2022
(From left) Filmmaker Tom Weidlinger films a reenactment scene from his childhood, starring  Tibor Legát as his father and Lőrinc Pap as a 5-year-old Tom. (Photo/Andor Valentiny)
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‘Restless Hungarian’: Filmmaker Tom Weidlinger’s hunt for his elusive father

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 7, 2022July 25, 2022

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