In a secular age, it appears that the cinema, whether documentary or fiction, remains the pulpit of the people, sharing their joys and their woes, using the intimate knowledge of the filmmaker to tell moving and compelling stories.
I felt compelled to watch Oppenheimer because of all the buzz. We all know that Robert Oppenheimer was the creator of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, finally defeating …
SHTTL has been screened and has won prizes at film festivals (*1). I was fortunate to view it at a private screening sponsored by the Montreal Holocaust Museum. According to …
On August 24, the Federation CJA, Montreal’s central Jewish community organization, kicked off its annual fundraising campaign by renting out all eight screens of the newly refurbished CineStarz Deluxe …
there is no word for “history” in the Hebrew language. The Hebrew word that comes closest to the notion of history in Hebrew is the word “zachor” – the …
the film exposes the travails of leadership and brings history to life. Will she or won’t she use the secret weapon? what goes through her mind as she faces …
Apples From the Desert by Directors Matti Harari and Arik Lubetzki is an older Israeli version of the current Netflix series Unorthodox, a story about a young girl who grows up …
Yesterday, I saw an amazing documentary film about the journey of teshuva – Hebrew for repentance or redemption – of an entire community, Kielce, led by a Polish born …
In a secular age, it appears that the cinema remains the pulpit of the people, sharing their joys and their woes using the intimate knowledge of the filmmaker to …
Yesterday, a packed auditorium at the Montreal Jewish Public Library watched the film about Aristide de Sousa Mendes, Disobedience. Afterwards, we all listened to the moving panel discussion that …
Yesterday, I was privileged to see Theodore Bikel’s performance of his one-person show, SHOLOM ALEICHEM: LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS, at the Segal Center in Montreal. Bikel channels the life of Sholem Aleichem …
Last night, I made a special effort to watch the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, a recent documentary biography of the life of Sholem Aleichem, playing at Cinema …