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A house is not a home, so the old song goes. Fair enough, but then what is? The notion of home goes beyond the physical, one understands. It encompasses the emotional, is shaped by the intangible, a..
posted November 29, 2012 in News | Permalink
If you were friendly with someone living in Gaza, would you have felt any differently about Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense, its week-long campaign against Hamas terror targets? That's the of..
posted November 28, 2012 in News | Permalink
The Israeli judicial system has long flaunted its liberal credentials against Binyamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition. But in his documentary, "The Law in These Parts", Israeli film-maker Ranaan a..
With the recent coinage of the term "pinkwashing," presumably an "unofficial" official policy whereby the Israeli government touts its progressive stance vis-à-vis gay and lesbian rights as a..
posted November 27, 2012 in News | Permalink
“The Gatekeepers,” a new documentary by the Israeli director Dror Moreh, consists of interviews with six men, all of them retired, most of them bald, one of them a type, his..
posted November 25, 2012 in News | Permalink
Could you hurt someone who had your blood running through their veins? That was the question asked in Blood Relations, the short documentary that screened in the Other Israel Film Festival in..
It has been a long and winding road for Yaron Zilberman, an Israeli, New York City-based film director. Zilberman, whose first feature film, A Late Quartet, opens here on Nov. 23 after its at the a..
posted November 20, 2012 in News | Permalink
Chronicling the emotional struggles of five descendants of top Nazi figures to overcome the horrific legacy of the "sins of their fathers," Israeli filmmaker Chanoch Ze'evi's Hitler's Childen is a a..
posted November 16, 2012 in News | Permalink
In 2003, Ra'anan Alexandrowicz' narrative feature film, "James' Journey to Jerusalem," was being screened at a local film festival, and the Israeli cultural attaché there led the discussion a..
The Invisible Men tells the hidden story of persecuted gay Palestinians who have run away from their families and are now living secretly and illegally in Tel Aviv. The film examines a trio of 32 a..
posted November 15, 2012 in News | Permalink
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