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black and white image of a bearded man and long-haired woman talking to each other, with two other women and an ox cart in the background
Posted inCulture

S.F. Jewish Film Festival revs up at the drive-in (and on your couch)

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Michael Stuhlberg as Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man."
Posted inTV

8 great Jewish movies only a click away

by Michael Fox June 9, 2020June 10, 2020
In “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations” Rabbi Elisar Admon shows the hole where a bullet pierced his prayer book during the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. "It went right through the word for god."
Posted inFilm

Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS doc

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020
Disability rights activists Denise Sherer Jacobson and Neil Jacobson, subjects of "Crip Camp," in their early 20s. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inCulture, Film, TV & Film

‘Crip Camp’: disability rights activists and their summer of love

Lezak Shallat by Lezak Shallat April 23, 2020April 27, 2020
Yoav Potash (second from right) directs a reenactment scene for his forthcoming documentary "Diary from the Ashes." (CIRRUS WOOD)
Posted inTV & Film

Prestigious NEH grant for local film on teen’s Holocaust diary

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 14, 2020April 14, 2020
Junior Mayema, a gay refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in San Francisco is one of four Bay Area refugees profiled in the documentary "Unsettled." (Tom Shepard)
Posted inBay Area, Culture, Film, TV & Film

At East Bay Jewish film fest, ‘Unsettled’ shows humanity of four local gay refugees

by Michael Fox February 27, 2020February 28, 2020
George Soros in the documentary “Soros.” (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Film Institute)
Posted inTV & Film

George Soros: Philanthropist? Financier? Evil genius? New film tells the full story

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 24, 2020
Israeli filmmaker Yair Qedar, producer of 'Ha'Ivrim.' (Courtesy Yair Qedar)
Posted inCulture

Learn about 20th century’s most iconic Hebrew authors in new series

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 19, 2020February 20, 2020
Cantor Jack Mendelson in "A Cantor's Head"
Posted inJew in the Pew

A master of synagogue music finds his style and career fading in touching documentary

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky February 14, 2020August 17, 2021
Still from Israeli documentary "Mrs. G," showing at the 2020 East Bay International Jewish Film Festival.
Posted inUncategorized

East Bay International Jewish Film Festival returns for silver anniversary

by Andrew Muchin February 12, 2020February 28, 2020

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