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Jewish Film Institute

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
Julia Lindon in a scene from “Lady Liberty.” (Photo/Courtesy Classy Kid Productions)
Posted inTV

‘Lady Liberty’: Jewish Film Institute has Pride in livestream of funny TV pilot

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 15, 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
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

Jewish Film Institute receives emergency grant from motion picture academy

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 18, 2020May 19, 2020
The S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund is making changes to its board.
Posted inBay Area

Federation issues $2.4 million in second wave of emergency grants

by Dan Pine May 8, 2020May 12, 2020
The Castro Theatre, traditional epicenter of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. (Photo/Courtesy JFI-Barak Shrama)
Posted inTV & Film

40th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival postponed

Laura Pall by Laura Paull April 16, 2020April 16, 2020
San Franciscan Mica Jamel-Schneider greets some baseball-loving Cuban peers in a still from "Havana Curveball."
Posted inFilm

Have your own private film festival with Jewish Film Institute’s ‘Cinegogue Sessions’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 28, 2020March 30, 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
Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halev) torches a poster of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in “Incitement.”
Posted inTV & Film

Israeli film ‘Incitement’ revisits dark days around Rabin’s assassination

by Tom Tugend and JTA February 18, 2020February 28, 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

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