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Antisemitism / Arts and Entertainment

Gal Gadot Faces Antisemitic Campaign after ‘Snow White’ Trailer

By Israel Hayom

Following the Israeli actress's appearance as the Evil Queen, antisemitic commentators called for a recast and boycott of the film.

Israel / Arts and Entertainment

Helen Mirren to portray Golda Meir in new Yom Kippur War film

By Israel Hayom

The movie focuses on the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the challenges it presented Meir, also known as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics.

Video of the Day

Preview: Boycott This!

By Video of the Day

Preview for Boycott This! with Brad Stine

Featured / Israel / Lebanon / Arts and Entertainment / Hezbollah

Wonder Woman Officially Banned in Lebanon

By Jewish Press News Desk

In Lebanon they're apparently afraid of strong Israeli women.

Featured / News Briefs / Lebanon

Will Wonder Woman Screen in Lebanon? Hezbollah Says No

By Jewish Press News Desk

Will the Israeli Amazon warrior princess of peace defeat the evil Hezbollah?

Editorial

Movie Productions And Parking On The Lower East Side

By Editorial Board

This is even more of an issue for observant Jews...

Jewish / History / Video of the Day / Arts and Entertainment / Obituaries

Watch Complete Movie 'You Never Know' on Shlomo Carlebach's 22nd Yahrzeit

By Video of the Day

If you ask “What are you” – you destroy the world. If you ask “Who are you?” you build the world…” (Shlomo Carlebach).

Israel / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Kevin Costner in Israel for pre-premiere of Criminal

By Israel 21C

Academy Award winner stars alongside actress Gal Gadot in Israeli directed, produced film.

US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Holocaust

'Son of Saul' - Hungarian Film about the Holocaust Wins Golden Globe

By JNi.Media

"The Holocaust has become, over the years, an abstraction. For me, it's more of a face, a human face. Let us not forget this face."

Israel / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Judaism

Gett Nominated for the Golden Globes

By JTA

A Golden Globes award will help women still chained by obstinate husbands.

US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Jerusalem / Religion / Judaism

An IMAX Film of the Jerusalem You Never Have Seen Before (Video)

By JTA

Move over Kohn Kerry and let the moviemakers take over. It took five years of negotiations for an IMAX visual tour of Jerusalem, including the three major religions, to come to the screen.

Travel / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Jerusalem

Chinese Crew Begins Blockbuster Filming in Old City (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Watch a Chinese film crew capturing the magic of Jerusalem's Old City as a backdrop for a full-length romantic comedy. It’s also going to give Israel a big boost in tourism.

Op-Eds

Upper West Siders Forget to Think Jewish

By Dr. Phyllis Chesler

“I am surprised those Zionists are not outside protesting,” says one woman.

Guest Blog

The Real Reason They're Digging Up Arafat (Satire)

By Jeff Dunetz

Why are they really digging up ole' Yasser? There are only four possibilities.

Op-Eds

The Innocence of Obama

By Daniel Greenfield

The more people die of Muslim violence, the more the principle of the innocence of Muslims must be upheld, because it is no longer just the innocence of Muslims that is at stake, but the innocence of the political establishment that has looked away while the fires burned. And a political establishment determined to protect its innocence will go to any length, and political prisoners are the least of it.

Fresno Zionism

Massacring the Truth

By Vic Rosenthal

The so-called “Jenin Massacre” of 2002 — a massacre that never happened — is emblematic of the way the truth is violated, over and over in this conflict. The most shocking aspect of the affair, for me, was the cynical way in which many were comfortable with inverting reality for ideological reasons.

Op-Eds

Atlas Shrugged II: The Plot Thickens

By J. E. Dyer

Samantha Mathis as Dagny Taggart adds some gravitas to the second in the Atlas Shrugged series – Atlas Shrugged II: Either-Or – and director John Putch (the 2005 Poseidon Adventure, The Book of Love) keeps the story moving right along.

Middle East / Levant / News Briefs / Media / Islamists

'Innocence' Actress Says the Cast Was Duped, Muhammad's Character Was Named 'George' (Video)

By Tibbi Singer

A casting call published in July 2011 in Backstage magazine and in other publications listed the movie title as "Desert Warrior," and presented it as an "historical Arabian Desert adventure film." An actress in the film who asked not to be identified said the original script did not include a character named Prophet Muhammad.

Politics

New York Times Bestseller List Bad News For Obama?

By Jewish Press Staff

Do book sales reflect the general mood of the American electorate? If so, the current New York Times bestseller list does not carry good news for President Obama.

Teens and Twenties

The Lion of Judah Rises

By Elke Weiss

Many Jewish people, including myself, avoid Holocaust movies because it is far too painful to watch the dehumanization of those we love. Still, facing what is painful is an important part of life. “Lion of Judah” is not an easy film to watch, but for the next generation it will be a valuable resource for educating children in a world without survivors. More importantly, it is centered on the incredible, Leo Zisman, the Lion of Judah.

Op-Eds / Sultan Knish

Everything is Fake Now: The Virtual Reality of Politics

By Daniel Greenfield

When all the bubbles of rhetoric pop, there are still the hard unpleasant realities to deal with.

J.E. Dyer

2016: Effective, Well Done, a Caveat or Two

By J. E. Dyer

Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama’s America, is very good at putting the viewer in the milieu of Jakarta or Nairobi, which continue to feel “different” enough to engage the American viewer’s sense of distance and wonder. Conveying the difference of Barack Obama’s childhood and his idea of cultural roots – the difference from American life – is the movie’s most effective accomplishment.

Sultan Knish

Invaders from Outer Space

By Daniel Greenfield

In the movie theater, we revisit that terrible knowledge that we are engaged in a war with no natural end under a hundred disguises. We recreate September 11 in our ten-dollar nickelodeons every summer and look to the sky. But it isn't aliens we are watching for. It's planes.

News Briefs

Colorado Gunman Indentified

By Jewish Press News Desk

Colorado gunman - now identified as James Holmes, 24 - killed at least 12 people and injured 50 in a shooting spree in a Colorado movie theater near Denver overnight.

On Our Own/Cheryl Kupfer

A Window Into The Past; A Lesson For The Future

By Cheryl Kupfer

Earlier this month, members of the Toronto Jewish community were given a rare opportunity to be visually transported back in time. The film, filmed in 1922, is called Hungry Hearts, and is based on the short stories of writer Anzia Yezierska, a Jewish woman born in Poland in the 1880s whose family immigrated to New York. Many of her writings are centered on her experiences and those of other immigrants living in the Lower East Side. Like all movies made at that time, it is silent, with dialogue conveyed by cue cards.

Arts

The Very Best of Israel on the Silver Screen

By Juda Engelmayer

Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story is a documentary about the life of a true Israeli hero. But the film is not a mere recounting of the famous Entebbe Raid, it is an honest retrospective of the life of the young, academic, passionate and poetic son, brother, friend, boyfriend, and husband Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu. And it shows a side of Israel that a 'Hasbara' campaign can't capture.

Devora Waysman

Why Are We Here: Israel At 64

By Dvora Waysman

Jews all over the world celebrate Israel's Independence Day - even those who have no intention of ever coming on aliyah, and many of whom have never even visited Israel. "It's a kind of insurance policy" one overseas friend told me. "By supporting Israel financially and emotionally, I know that its sanctuary is available to me or my children or grandchildren should the need ever arise."

US / News Briefs / Media

This Just In: Warner's 'Maccabees' Suspended, Mel Gibson Stil Hates Jews

By Tibbi Singer

In an explosive letter, Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas ("Basic Instinct," "Jagged Edge") writes Mel Gibson, Joe is accusing Mel of “hating Jews” and of using him to deflect his anti-Semitic reputation. Eszterhas wrote that Gibson, the director of a sadomasochistic flick about how the Jews killed you-know-who, never actually intended to make the movie about Jewish heroism, titled “The Maccabees.”

News Briefs

Prominent Egyptian Comedian Convicted of 'Defaming Islam'

By Jewish Press Staff

Adel Imam was sentenced to three months for his roles in a play and a movie.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter II

By Barbara Bensoussan

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