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HOLY ROLLERS

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Once in a while even movies can dispense with its usual stereotypes and can tell us an old story with a fresh set of characters.  This debut feature from filmmaker Kevin Asche is a drug smuggling story where the baddies are neither African Americans or Italian Mafia but actually Hassidic Jews, and evidently its all … Continue reading



Humor Me

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For Sam Hoffman’s feature film writing/directing debut Humor Me he valiantly attempted to build on his very successful web series (and book) Old Jews Telling Jokes with very mixed results. What he ended up with is a family comedy that older Jewish audiences will lap up, but others will sadly find rather lame at best. This is … Continue reading



JEWTOPIA

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Once upon a time there was a play that ran Off Broadway for 3 and a half years. Most of the play’s humor involved jokes about Jewish stereotypes with occasional humor about body parts and bodily functions, and it made numerous references to the Jewish online dating website, JDate. The play’s two authors  Bryan Fogel and … Continue reading



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