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Jason Schwartzman plays a cantor and Carol Kane plays an adult bat mitzvah student in Nathan Silver's film, "Between the Temples." (Sony Pictures Classics)
August 22, 2024, 7:18 am
Jason Schwartzman plays a small-town cantor with a spiritual crisis in ‘Between the Temples’
This many be the most Jewish mainstream movie of the year
By Stephen Silver
A group of schoolchildren read a news magazine in "June Zero," a new film dramatizing the Eichmann trial's reception in Israel. (Courtesy Cohen Media Group)
July 4, 2024, 2:09 pm
‘June Zero’ depicts Adolf Eichmann’s trial through the eyes of Israelis adjacent to it
The film "takes an ambitious and unconventional approach by focusing on a series of events outside of the trial itself."
By Stephen Silver
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry visit Auschwitz in "Treasure," a 2024 tragicomedy set in the 1990s. (Bleecker Street)
June 16, 2024, 10:39 am
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry take a father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
The film tells the story of New York journalist Ruth Rothwax and her Holocaust survivor father as they visit the city of his birth — Łódź — and the concentration camp he survived.
By Toby Axelrod
Hollywoodland : An Exhibition on Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital on Display May 8, 2024 at the The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Josh White, JWPictures/Academy Museum Foundation)
May 17, 2024, 2:33 pm
LA’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.
“Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital” traces the history and legacy of early 20th century.
By Jacob Gurvis
Actor Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka on the set of the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images)
April 19, 2024, 12:04 pm
JFilm brings independent Jewish films to Pittsburgh
16 films from around the world will be shown in Pittsburgh or will be able to be accessed virtually
By Chronicle Staff
Bryn Mawr Film Institute marquee (Photo by Sansserifs, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
April 11, 2024, 2:20 pm
Under court order, Philadelphia theater screens Israeli film that it canceled in the face of protests
The theater apologized for its actions after the court order came down.
By Andrew Lapin
"Purim" by Arthur Szyk (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
March 14, 2024, 1:30 pm
Host your own Purim film festival with these 5 films
Adaptations of the Book of Esther
By Jordan Palmer | St. Louis Jewish Light
Gene Wilder and Cleavon Little appear in a scene from 1974's "Blazing Saddles." (Courtesy Fathom)
February 8, 2024, 9:51 am
‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy
Most of the things that are controversial about “Blazing Saddles” now were just as controversial back when it was first released, 50 years ago this week.
By Stephen Silver
Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer." (Universal Pictures)
January 24, 2024, 2:36 pm
‘Barbenheimer,’ ‘Maestro’ and ‘The Zone of Interest’ lead large crop of Jewish-inspired Oscar nominations
"Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the Jewish “father of the atomic bomb,” led the year’s nominations with 13.
By Andrew Lapin
A scene from "The Zone of Interest" (Courtesy of A24)
December 28, 2023, 12:59 pm
The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’
Movie depicts Rudolf Höss, the Nazi commandant who oversaw the mass killing operations at Auschwitz-Birkenau
By Andrew Lapin
"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker attends the "The Color Purple" Broadway revival's Opening Night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)
December 22, 2023, 1:55 pm
A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight
As the reputation of “The Color Purple” has soared over the decades, Walker’s own has become more muddled — specifically for her difficult relationship to Judaism.
By Andrew Lapin
Jewish actor and comedian Andy Samberg, left, portrays World War II photographer David E. Scherman, right in the biographical film "Lee. (Images courtesy of Rich Polk via Getty Images for IMDb and Wikimedia)
September 20, 2023, 11:08 am
Andy Samberg plays a famous Jewish WWII photographer in upcoming biopic
David E. Scherman, a Jewish photographer, was among the first to enter the city of Nuremberg, the Dachau concentration camp and Berchtesgaden.
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in "Golda." (Sean Gleason/Courtesy of Bleecker Street/Shiv Hans Pictures)
August 30, 2023, 12:41 pm
Zooming in on Yom Kippur War, ‘Golda’ aims to rehabilitate Golda Meir’s image
"She was the scapegoat of the war. The notion was that she was the only person responsible for this debacle, this failure, and it wasn’t true.”
By Shira Li Bartov
Bella Abzug shown in 1979. (Courtesy of Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress)
August 23, 2023, 9:56 am
Bella Abzug documentary aims to restore the Jewish congresswoman’s legacy
In just six years as a New York representative, she demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam and fought discrimination against women, LGBTQ people and Black Americans.
By Shira Li Bartov
Shot from “Two lives in Pittsburgh” (Image courtesy of Fresh PR Los Angeles)
August 14, 2023, 3:10 pm
Pittsburgh showcased in Mt. Lebanon native’s new film
A recent passion project brought the Pittsburgher back home from California.
By Justin Vellucci
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