Jeremy Kagan
By Jeremy Kagan
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125 greatest Jewish movie scenes A scene that was so Jewish it wound up on the cutting-room floor
The director of 'The Chosen' recalls a sequence that didn't make the final cut
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Art How painting the Torah brought the director of ‘The Chosen’ closer to Judaism
On my iPad, I’ve been drawing a visual response to this week’s Torah portion and the Midrash about it. I do this every week and, over the last few years, I’ve made five sets of these drawings. The first set started on a whim. I had learned some odd stories about the first parsha Beresheit….
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Culture At first I didn’t want to make ‘The Chosen’ — then ‘The Chosen’ changed my life
Making this movie changed my life. Published in 1967, Chaim Potok’s book, “The Chosen,” is regarded as one of the great Jewish American novels. Set in Brooklyn at the end of WWII, it explores the complex relationship between two Jewish boys, one modern orthodox and the other the genius son of a Hasidic rebbe (the…
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Culture How one powerful song helped to heal ‘Crown Heights’
My father was a reform rabbi in Mount Vernon, New York, a city that, in the 1950s, had a railroad line splitting it in half. On one side lived mostly white people including the Jews; on the other side were peoples of various minorities including African-American. In 2004, I was hired to make a movie…
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Culture How ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ gets history wrong
in 1987, I wrote and directed the film, “Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8,” which received an ACE award that year for best cable movie. I had initially been hired by CBS to make a TV movie based on the transcripts of this famous political trial, as earlier I had written and directed “Katherine,”…
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