Birth of Shas party recounted with humor, heart in ‘The Unorthodox’
By MICHAEL FOX According to the old saw, “all politics is local.” To ultra-Orthodox widower Yaacov Cohen, it’s not just ...
By MICHAEL FOX According to the old saw, “all politics is local.” To ultra-Orthodox widower Yaacov Cohen, it’s not just ...
Julius Rosenwald’s philanthropy supported African American schools and artists By MICHAEL FOX The recent history between Jews and African Americans, ...
German director Christian Petzold’s film is a riveting drama that neatly raises profound existential questions in the guise of a ...
Watchers of the Sky, available on Netflix, traces Raphael Lemkin’s quest to criminalize genocide, and the ongoing struggle for peace ...
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR It’s unfortunate that it turned out this way. The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) scheduled screenings ...
The slow-burning and deeply empathetic drama traces the tentative friendship and romance between a frustrated Hasidic wife and mother, and ...
Gett marks the third and final chapter of a trilogy from filmmaker siblings Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz By MICHAEL FOX ...
New Ridley Scott film about Moses alternately evokes and evades the dominant events in the modern Jewish world By MICHAEL ...
This impassioned debate about the prospects for human civilization is a profile in conscience By MICHAEL FOX It is not ...
Lively and affectionate Supermensch, which profiles longtime rock ’n roll manager Shep Gordon, describes how a nice guy finished first ...
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