Jewish
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Woman In Gold
Maria Altmann has been living in California since she and her late husband managed to flee from Austria when World War 2 started. Now that her sister has just died Maria has uncovered several documents concerning all the art and other valuables that the Nazis had looted from their family home. One of them was…
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Gett : The Trial of Vivane Amsalem
There are no such things as civil weddings or divorces in Israel so if a marriage fails then its all up to the male dominated Rabbinical Courts to decide the fate of any estranged couple and if they warrant a ‘Gett’ i.e. a Jewish divorce. In this new movie, the third in a trilogy of…
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THE JEWISH CARDINAL aka Le métis de Dieu
The film opens in 1969 and we see a young priest precariously careering through heavy traffic the streets of Paris as he is late for a meeting with his Bishop. Instead of receiving news about his expected move to Jerusalem he is told instead that the Pope has appointed him Bishop of Orleans. Totally…
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HAVA NAGILA : THE MOVIE
Who would a guess that such an inane and somewhat annoying song such as Hava Nagila would have such a wealth of history, and more face lifts than Joan Rivers? Well filmmaker Roberta Grossman, and in her amusing and fascinating documentary she traces how this staple of Barmitzvahs and Weddings went from Ukraine to YouTube…
