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Fast Forward Producer Jason Blum Blasts Trump, Booed Off Stage At LA Israel Film Festival
(JTA) — Jewish producer Jason Blum was booed and had to be physically removed from the stage of the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles after he accused President Trump of fomenting rising anti-Semitism in the United States. Blum was onstage at the Steve Tisch Cinema Center, Saban Theater on Tuesday evening being honored with the…
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The Schmooze “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is Coming to the Big Screen 50 Years Later
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is becoming a movie and our sixth grade selves are clutching our Lisa Frank stickers and the Silly Bandz coiled around our wrists in joyous celebration. The endearingly raw young adult novel was released in an age when the concept of accumulating a certain amount of likes on…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot Will Voice A Race Car Driver In Disney’s ‘Wreck It Ralph 2’
Disney fans, meet the newest character on the block: she’s not a princess, she’s a leather-wearing race car driver. Gal Gadot is slated to star in Disney’s “Ralph Breaks The Internet”, the sequel to the box office hit, “Wreck It Ralph”. She will provide her voice for the character Shank in the upcoming movie. Shank…
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The Schmooze Maggie Gyllenhaal is Deranged In Remake of Israeli Thriller
I wouldn’t give an apple to this teacher. Maggie Gyllenhaal brings every parent’s nightmare to life in the disturbing trailer for the upcoming Netflix film “The Kindergarten Teacher”. Gyllenhaal plays a troubled educator who latches onto a kindergarten student upon listening to him stammer out brilliant poetry. She immediately pegs the little boy as “a…
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Film & TV New York Film Festival To Feature Films From Coen Brothers, Frederick Wiseman
This year’s New York Film Festival will mark a major moment for Jewish film. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which hosts the 56-year old festival, announced the festival’s main slate lineup on August 7. Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, 88-year old documentarian Frederick Wiseman and visual artist Julian Schnabel are on the bill…
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Life Top Nine Holocaust Movies To Watch On The Ninth Of Av
If you’re a graduate of the traditional Jewish summer camp system, you probably think of Tisha B’Av, the Ninth of Av, the commemoration of the destruction of the Temple, as “Holocaust Movie Day.” Observant Jews dwell on mourning on the Ninth of Av. Not only do we fast and refrain from any bodily pleasures, but…
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Community 5 Can’t-Miss Events At This Year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
The 38th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Jewish Film Institute, returns July 19–August 5, 2018 in five Bay Area cities. SFJFF is the largest Jewish cultural event in Northern California and the Bay Area’s annual celebration of excellence in independent cinema that showcases the diversity of global Jewish life. See complete film…
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Culture How Claude Lanzmann Created Post-War European Jewish Identity
A few years ago at a conference in Paris, I was present at a lecture in French, a language that I understand well enough, but which I speak only with great difficulty. The lecture dealt with the Egyptian-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Edmond Jabès. Afterwards I wanted to ask a question, so I began speaking…
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