JudyBF's Profile
Newton, MAJudyBF lives and writes in Newton. She is a columnist for The Jewish Advocate and writes for The Boston Globe and The Jerusalem Report. She's at work on a memoir about her father interspersed with reflections on the Mourner's Kaddish tentatively titled: The Last and Unpublished Book of Judy Bolton, Girl Detective.
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Fiddlers in Argentina
Argentinean filmmaker Gabriel Pomeraniec’s first feature documentary, Tango: A Story with Jews, explores tango music and its Jewish influences in a Zelig-like film. The film...
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Lives in Limbo: Latin American Films at the Boston Jewish Film Festival
This year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival will again showcase films from Latin America. Two of them in particular—a documentary and a semi-autobiographical movie—tell complicated stories...
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Directors of Howl discuss their "Poempic"
When Beat poet and philosopher Allen Ginsburg was 29 he wrote Howl, his first epic poem. He performed his work in what was arguably one...
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An Unfinished Film: A Conversation with Director Yael Hersonski
In 1954 four 35mm reels of unedited footage were found in an East German archive. The Nazis simply labeled the reels Das Ghetto and never...
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Coming to a Farmer’s Market Near You: Papernick the Book Peddler
Stroll into the Waltham Farmer’s Market on a given weekend and you’ll believe in books again—honest-to-goodness books that you can hold in your hands and...
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