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Four Questions with filmmaker Bess Kargman, director of First Position
Bess Kargman is the director, producer, and editor of the new documentary First Position, which follows six young ballet dancers as they compete at the...
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Boston Jewish Film Festival announces Audience Award winners
Kaddish for a Friend, the debut film of director Leo Khasin, and Beating Time, a documentary about the struggle to overcome ALS, were the winners of The 23rd Boston...
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Beating Time
by Ross BloomA group of us from the Boston-Haifa Connection’s Young Leaders Committee recently went to see “Beating Time,” one of the films in this...
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Filmmaker Joseph Dorman champions Sholem Aleichem for a New Generation
It's hard to imagine an American Jew who isn't at least passingly familiar with the character of Tevye the Dairyman thanks to the overwhelming success...
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Martin Grossman & The Death House
Rhonda Moskowitz is a Boston-area Jewish filmmaker working on a documentary about Jews in prison called Return (Teshuvah). One year ago yesterday, Martin Grossman, one...
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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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Browsing Through Birke's
Several years ago, in conjunction with the Mogan Cultural Center, I created an exhibit titled “Browsing Through Birke’s” about my parents’ story as Holocaust survivors...
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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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Welcoming Waters: Mikveh for Babies
Welcome to the Jewish future, which is very, very cute. Welcome to the premiere of Mayyim Hayyim’s first documentary film, funded by CJP and...
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New Documentary Explores Mikveh for Babies
I recently had the opportunity to write a guest post for Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center about the premiere of Mayyim...
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