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The iconic song "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen — seen here with a feline friend — is the subject of a new documentary opening soon in the Bay Area. (Photo/Graeme Mitchell-Redux)
Posted inCultured

Hot Jewish Summer: Yiddish album and ‘Hallelujah’ doc will strike a chord

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 21, 2022June 22, 2022
"Transkids" follows the gender transitions of four Jewish Israeli teens. (Photo/Ohad Romano)
Posted inFilm

‘Transkids,’ Israeli documentary about transgender teens, gets virtual screening

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 16, 2022May 18, 2022
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
Posted inFilm

Oakland anti-hate filmmakers train lens on Tree of Life synagogue massacre

by Sue Fishkoff May 2, 2022July 12, 2022
Audrey Hepburn at Horn & Hardart, an automat chain that is the subject of the documentary "The Automat."
Posted inFilm

‘The Automat’ documentary with Mel Brooks and RBG opens; Celebrating Italian Jewish food; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
Yael Bridge is the director of "The Big Scary 'S' Word" and forthcoming documentary on the Jews of Cuba.
Posted inTV & Film

‘The Big Scary ‘S’ Word’: Oakland filmmaker taps into zeitgeist with socialism documentary

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 25, 2022March 30, 2022
Screenshot from "The Levys of Monticello," streaming this month as part of the East Bay International Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inCulture

‘The Levys of Monticello’: S.F. filmmaker tells story of the Jewish family who saved Jefferson’s estate

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten March 11, 2022March 11, 2022
Screenshot from the film "Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power."
Posted inCulture

Berkeley Jewish filmmaker wins NAACP award; day school students win Hazon arts awards

by J. Staff March 8, 2022
Jay Rosenblatt is the director of the documentary short "When We Were Bullies," which has been nominated for an Academy Award.
Posted inCulture

S.F. filmmaker’s documentary on bullying incident nominated for Oscar

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 15, 2022February 16, 2022
Theodore Katz in the 2022 documentary "Tantura," directed by Alon Schwarz. (Photo/JTA-Yonathan Weitzman-Reel Peak Films)
Posted inFilm

Explosive Israeli documentary ‘Tantura’ is prompting calls to excavate a possible Palestinian mass grave

by Andrew Lapin and JTA February 7, 2022July 12, 2022
From "Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis"
Posted inFilm

How the U.S. wined and dined Nazis, then destroyed the evidence, in Netflix doc

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

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