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Was Roald Dahl an Antisemite?

By Alan Zeitlin

The play presents Dahl as a man in physical pain, desperate to secure his marriage to his second wife, and increasingly cornered by public backlash.

In Print / Featured / Movie and Play Reviews

From The Shtetl to Shylock

By Alan Zeitlin

Jewish actor Saul Rubinek talks about his role as a rabbi in the 2022 film Shttl and starring in the new Off-Broadway play in Brooklyn called Playing Shylock.

Movie and Play Reviews / Video of the Day

A ‘Legend of Destruction’ for Our Time

By Rabbi David Stav

A new film about the fall of the Second Temple reminds us that our disputes must never be allowed to deteriorate into a rift resulting in destruction.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

October 7 On The Stage: A Gut-Punch That Should Be Seen By All

By Alan Zeitlin

The roles the actors play are all inherently difficult, as it is impossible to recreate what one would feel like during a massacre.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

Golda: A Masterful Film About Israel’s Wartime Female Prime Minister

By Alan Zeitlin

As a woman in particular in a war room, [Golda Meir] had to take control of the situation and make them understand that her voice as going to be an important part of the whole thing and they should not sideline her, Mirren agreed.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

Yissachar Dror – Yachid Bimlucha – You Are a Star

By Roni

Dror started gathering songs to record an album and while that was getting underway, his brother-in-law introduced him to his now-wife. The album, entitled Yachid Bimlucha – You are a Star, started to take shape and reflected a multitude of emotions and musical styles.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

Comedian Daniel Lobell Returns to Spanish Roots in Comedic Documentary “Reconquistador!”

By Emunah Fialkoff

Lobell’s hilarious documentary brings humor to an otherwise poignant visit to a place where so much culture and history have been lost.

Movie and Play Reviews

Actor Is Ready To Raise The “Roof” Once Again As Tevye In Yiddish Fiddler

By Alan Zeitlin

The sad truth is that audiences now know that violence against Jews is no longer relegated to stories from years ago of the Russian czar kicking Jews out of Russia, but seen in Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, and across the globe.

Movie and Play Reviews

Music, Monologues, and Mikva Memories: More than Entertainment

By Sharon Altshul

Mikva, the Musical, is produced under the non-profit aegis of Raise Your Spirits Theatre, an educational theater company dedicated to Torah values led by Klein Greenwald and Tamar Rubin along with a large cast of female performers and supporters.

Movie and Play Reviews

Powerful Film On The Complicated Legacy Of Shimon Peres

By Alan Zeitlin

There are still some who believe that, had Peres beaten Netanyahu, there would have been a peace deal.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

From Dealing Drugs To Lubavitcher Hugs, Canadian Jew Finds Path To Hashem After A Tumultuous Youth

By Alan Zeitlin

Money from club-promoting life allowed him to stop dealing marijuana, but when he felt spiritually lost, he searched for spirituality.

In Print / Movie and Play Reviews

Controversial Hitler Documentary Is Powerful Despite Flaws

By Alan Zeitlin

Are we really trying to understand what made his brain feel it was acceptable to attempt to wipe out a people, or are we trying to figure out why in 2021 are there people who may want to do what he failed to do?

Movie and Play Reviews

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Ukraine

By Ben Bresky

Hasidic-based film "Talking to God" wins international film festival awards. A discussion with the director.

Movie and Play Reviews

A Testimony Of Atrocities: A Review of ‘Who Will Write Our History’

By Alan Zeitlin

The documentary, which includes simple re-enactments with actors, will make you cry and will make you angry.

Movie and Play Reviews

The Potent Story Of Capturing One Of The Worst Criminals: A Film Review of “Operation Finale”

By Alan Zeitlin

Kingsley is extremely convincing as a man who tries at first to say he only pushed paper and is not culpable for the crimes and thinks he can outsmart the Israelis.

Features / Movie and Play Reviews / From the Paper

Haredi Comedian Is Hilarious

By Alan Zeitlin

After giving a talk at a melaveh malka about his work experience a few years ago, people told him he had enough material to do a standup routine. They were right.

From the Paper / Movie and Play Reviews

Two New Documentaries Bring Holocaust Survivors To The Big Screen

By Sara Trappler-Spielman

Gradually, a picture emerged of survivors who had each experienced a different horror, but who all shared the pain of living with the memory.

Movie and Play Reviews

Theater Review: Silence Meant Safety, But One Woman Put Her Life In Danger

By Alan Zeitlin

“We Will Not Be Silent” tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a German college student who placed anti-Nazi leaflets at her college and was hanged for her "crime."

Movie and Play Reviews

New Film About Polish Jewry Makes Emotional Debut

By Naomi Klass Mauer

Rabbi Lau is a world class speaker. When he relates stories, even concentration camp stories, the audience is mesmerized. As we would soon discover, he is in the movie as well.

Movie and Play Reviews

The Memory Alive

By Shoshana Batya Greenwald

The most uplifting aspect of the film was the footage from the displaced persons camps.

Movie and Play Reviews

One Last Adventure For A Dozen Seniors

By Aharon Ben Anshel

These eleven nursing home residents and their accompanying staff from the Connecticut nursing home could represent any of us or our own loved ones...

Movie and Play Reviews

The Last of the Unjust

By Richard McBee

Neither helpless victims nor able to escape the killer’s clutches, the leaders had to make impossible choices on a daily basis in a never-ending dance with the devil.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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