• This five-part documentary explores 4,000 years of Jewish history, starting with the origins of the Jewish people in the Middle East right through to present day Judaism. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • The purpose of the documentary is to give the public deeper insight, beyond the Holocaust and Israeli politics, into the Jewish people , Nina Koshofer, director of the documentary, said. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • When Jews Were Funny is an exploration of Jewish-American comedy and its influence on modern American humour. (wikipedia.org)
  • David Steinberg states, "Jews owned humour", while Mark Breslin states, "The history of 20th-century humour is Jewish, period. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is further noted the critical nature of Jews made them tough audiences, so the Borscht Belt provided venues for Jewish comedians to hone their acts. (wikipedia.org)
  • Zweig states humour was his strongest connection with Jewish culture and is concerned he will lose this connection once the older generation of Jews are gone. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is also, as Vox's Matthew Yglesias notes , how Jewish power translates into real-world terms, and the kind of dynamic that keeps Congress so overwhelmingly pro-Israel - candidates need campaign cash, Jews are big givers and Jews (particularly big Jewish donors) care about Israel. (jta.org)
  • This is, of course, another aspect of Jewish political power - Jews get involved, and therefore matter to campaigns, even though they only constitute about 1 percent of the state's population. (jta.org)
  • This documentary filmed almost exclusively in Israel captures the movement of the Holy Spirit through Jewish believers in the Holy Land. (jeremiahfilms.com)
  • Acts of Faith Jewish Civilization in Spain , film documentary of Jews in Mexico that came from Spain ! (angelfire.com)
  • Two 30-minute documentaries on the Jewish history of Salonika (Thessaloniki), Greece. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • A celebration of the all-singing, all-dancing history of the worlds largest film industry, Shalom Bollywood reveals the unlikely story of the Baghdadi and Bene Manashe Jews, especially Jewish women, who became stars and movie moguls in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. (brownpapertickets.com)
  • The Jews Who Wrote Christmas is an offbeat documentary about the Jewish songwriters responsible for so many of the Christmas holiday songs. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • The film, currently being shot in Toronto, is an offbeat documentary about the Jewish songwriters responsible for so many of the holiday chestnuts that contribute to a seasonal soundtrack for Jews and gentiles alike. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • For The Jews Who Wrote Christmas , set to premiere on CBC in December, Weinstein plans to speak with music historians and other talking heads about the phenomenon of Jewish tunesmiths such as Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, Mel Tormé, Johnny Marks and Berlin, the chosen people of Christmas cheer. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • There Are Jews Here' Tells the Story of Four Struggling-Yet Striving-Jewish Communities Across the U.S. (tabletmag.com)
  • There Are Jews Here will have its New York premiere on January 12 at the American Jewish Historical Society. (tabletmag.com)
  • Celebrates the contributions of Jewish major leaguers and the special meaning that baseball has had in the lives of American Jews . (yahoo.com)
  • Last year the country was stunned by the news that Ultra-Orthodox Jews had spat on an 8-year-old Jewish girl and called her a whore for not dressing modestly enough. (gadling.com)
  • But if American Jews want their interests in Israel safeguarded, they must rid themselves of the fantasy of a nonexistent Jewish pluralism. (972mag.com)
  • Only a tiny minority of American Jews supports liberal causes and liberal institutions in Israel, certainly compared to the vast numbers who send their kids on Birthright tours, thereby delegating the Israeli-Jewish education of their own future generations to the Israeli government, its advocacy groups, and PR organizations. (972mag.com)
  • During the three years following Hitler's Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 when the world closed its doors to Jews fleeing the Nazis, Shanghai became "the port of last resort" for 20,000 Jewish refugees escaping Europe. (timesofisrael.com)
  • But I do recall that because of the carelessness of people in the secret services, who let something slip during the investigations since they might have been counting on a response from the person they were interrogating, people began to talk about the trial of the eight Jews and one Jacek Kuroń - the secret police didn't consider him to be Jewish, so it was eight Jews and Jacek Kuroń. (webofstories.com)
  • A provocative documentary that shines light on a little-explored dimension of the international debate regarding homosexuality and religion: that of gays and lesbians who also wish to belong to the Orthodox and Hassidic Jewish communities. (metacritic.com)
  • While all Orthodox Jews contend with the internet as a challenge, this story I share today is specifically about the most insular Hasidic sects. (newsbiztrends.com)
  • Orthodox Jews intuitively understand that their way of life cannot survive in the middle of the 21st century urban centers if they are immersed in its culture. (newsbiztrends.com)
  • In this enormous Sports Stadium on this day in 2012, Orthodox Jews fully appreciate that the internet is an existential threat. (newsbiztrends.com)
  • All three are ultra-Orthodox Jews and have confessed, police said. (gadling.com)
  • Israeli police suspect ultra-Orthodox Jews are behind Monday's vandalism at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. (gadling.com)
  • As implausible as this sounds, many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that Israel shouldn't exist until the coming of the Messiah. (gadling.com)
  • Summary Built around intimately-told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian, the film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma -- how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. (metacritic.com)
  • That five-year quest is the focus of Farewell, Herr Schwarz, a bittersweet documentary detailing an attempt to reconcile a pair of siblings' polar opposite response to the Holocaust. (myfilmblog.com)
  • The BBC reports that some radicals even believe that Hitler and top Zionists plotted to create the Holocaust so that the Jews could create Israel, which has got to be the dumbest conspiracy theory we've ever come across, and that's saying something. (gadling.com)
  • However, one CAIR leader, Ruanne Zein, has chosen a different tact, offending Jews by posting revolting jokes about the Holocaust on social media. (wnd.com)
  • Over the years, the Holocaust has been covered by hundreds of memoirs, historical accounts, books of fiction, as well as movies and documentaries in many languages. (opednews.com)
  • I have watched dozens of documentaries on the Holocaust and I am very aware that there must be a sort of "Holocaust documentary fatigue" because a lot of the films look alike. (opednews.com)
  • Anti-Zionist graffiti written in Hebrew was sprayed over several parts of the building, with lines like, "Jews, wake up, the evil Zionist regime doesn't protect us, it jeopardizes us," and, "If Hitler hadn't existed, the Zionists would have invented him. (gadling.com)
  • Muslim leader uses Hitler to mock Trump: 'I love the Jews! (wnd.com)
  • In a parody of Donald Trump's Cinco de Mayo tweet declaring his love for Hispanics, a leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations - a group designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror-funding case - has tweeted an image of Adolf Hitler expressing love for "kosher" food and "the Jews. (wnd.com)
  • Zein also previously evoked Hitler in criticizing Donald Trump, posting in March, "Trump is blaming Sanders supporters for the violence at his rally because you can't truly be Hitler until you blame a Jew for your problems. (wnd.com)
  • Think of it: In how many documentaries have you seen footage from Nazi newsreels of Hitler's followers goose-stepping at a stadium with lit torches or images of Hitler shouting into a microphone? (opednews.com)
  • But Jews did not attend Nazi marches and certainly did not go out of their way to personally see and hear Hitler. (opednews.com)
  • The documentary was produced by Ken and Cathy Hook of Cloyne and is available for public viewing on Harry's website . (harrysstory.ca)
  • The documentary, 'Harry's Story' is about the childhood memories of Harry Andringa when he lived in Holland with his family during the Nazi invasion in 1940. (harrysstory.ca)
  • Harry and Fim Andringa attended the screening of the documentary "Harry's Story" at the Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives on November 25, 2017. (harrysstory.ca)
  • Harry's Story " documentary launch at the Northbrook Lions Hall was mentioned in the November 9th, 2017 edition of the Frontenac News . (harrysstory.ca)
  • about the Nazi deportation of Czech Jews during World War II. (opednews.com)
  • A recent Arte television documentary by Christine Rütten, Nazis in the German Federal Intelligence Service: A new job for old buddies , presented an insight into the survival of the Nazi dictatorship, which was carefully maintained by a compliant bureaucracy behind the facade of a democratic German Federal Republic. (wsws.org)
  • Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story is a 2010 American documentary film narrated by Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Ira Berkow, and directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Miller. (yahoo.com)
  • Dustin Hoffman is giving an award to the maker of a documentary which, according to an IDF membership group, "was edited clip after clip, shot after shot, to the point where it has no connection to reality," in order to make Israelis look bad. (jewishpress.com)
  • With Jews like Dustin Hoffman, who needs enemies? (jewishpress.com)
  • Certainly, many American Jews had strong personal ties to the Refuseniks, and the film tells their stories, too - their visits to the Soviet Union, their clandestine meetings with Refuseniks, the chances they took by smuggling books and religious objects into the country. (timesofisrael.com)
  • But other Jews who never visited the Soviet Union and never met a Refusenik, played a more distant role. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Augsburg's task force had been involved in mass executions of Jews in the Soviet Union. (wsws.org)
  • in subtitles on her hour-long documentary Children of the Gaza War, which airs on BBC Two tonight. (camera.org)
  • There seems to be no other reason why the Muslim Public Affairs Council would call upon Hoffman to present an award for a documentary film which portrays Israel in the worst possible light, with no balance or nuance. (jewishpress.com)
  • This 2015 Best Documentary Feature Winner of the Mountain Film Festival portrays the experience of three friends who set out to climb two of the Seven Summits in 2013. (documentarystorm.com)
  • Fighting and clashes between the Jews and the Palestinians began after UN Resolution 181 was passed by the General Assembly on November 29, 1947. (tikkun.org)
  • 3. If there were a person from the line of David who could perform miracles of those attributed to "JESUS the CHRIST" and followed by 12 other Jews so devoted to truth and enlightenment that the story or narrative would be proudly acknowledged and recorded as they occurred by the Jews themselves in Aramaic and the oldest richest Christian Church would be where his people lived. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • I don't say that that's a bad thing, I think the goals of this documentary are indeed good, but if you want to empower people to fight propaganda, you have to teach them, why propaganda is so successful: because people choose to rely on others to give them objective truth. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • There are no shortcuts, and if American Jews want their interests safeguarded (and it is their interest, since most Israeli Jews are neither Reform nor Conservative, and have learned to live with the ultra-Orthodox monopoly over Judaism in the country) they must rid themselves of the fantasy of a nonexistent liberal pluralism, and start expending real political capital toward creating one. (972mag.com)
  • If its true that Palestinian children conflate "the Jews" and "Israel" in their language, this matters - and news consumers seeking to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict should know about it. (camera.org)
  • If Palestinian parents and educators generally don't teach that "Jew" means something broader than "Israeli," then again, this matters, and BBC viewers should understand this reality. (camera.org)
  • A documentary of what God is doing among, and through the Messianic believers in Israel. (jeremiahfilms.com)
  • The movie personalizes the inspiring stories of a small group of Soviet Jews who defied the Soviet superpower by asking to immigrate to Israel. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Letters to the President is a documentary about the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known around the world for his verbal attacks on America and Israel. (praguemonitor.com)
  • The John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature (Narrative or Documentary) went to Haim Tabakman for Eyes Wide Open (Israel), in which a married butcher who falls in love with a younger man in Jerusalem's ultra-orthodox community. (altfg.com)
  • BBC Watch explained that this was not the first time the media giant replaced Palestinian "Jews" with "Israelis," and recounted that, after a complaint about the switch, the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee in 2013 did not correct the mistranslation, and in fact went so far as to justify the practice, saying that "Israel" is what the speaker was "most likely referring to. (camera.org)
  • Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Best Documentary Jury Prize at NewFest, and Special Jury Prizes for Fearless Filmmaking at the Florida Film Festival and Bravery in Storytelling at the Nashville Film Festival, Prodigal Sons is a raw and provocative examination of one family's struggle to come to terms with its past and present. (prodigalsonsfilm.com)
  • Poetry of Resilience is a feature-length documentary that explores the question: How strong is the human spirit? (documentary.org)
  • As a result, the prisons were full of these young people who began to be released en masse in July and August, and only a set number of select individuals had political trials prepared against them. (webofstories.com)
  • Why won't Jews just admit a couple of facts to prevent antisemitism of religious nature from the two religions who you seemingly allow to add on stories to your books of Moses. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Rather than admit positivity, Jews used sarcasm, returned questions with questions, and employed a hostile passive-aggressiveness. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's a documentary with great integrity. (prodigalsonsfilm.com)
  • In July of 2014, the documentary Particle Fever was released to the world to great critical acclaim. (documentary.org)
  • FREE TO PLAY is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional video game players as they compete for a $1,000,000 prize in a competition that could change their lives forever. (documentarystorm.com)
  • It's about creating a mythology about America," says Wall, whose Yiddish Winter Wonderland is part of the documentary. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • By letting this insane story not be refuted at every opportunity it leads to Jews by race don't have value as Jew's of Religion do and non Jews drop in value even more. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Across four story lines, There Are Jews Here finds moments of tenderness in that struggle, as is rightly just as interested in how those communities live as it is in how they may die. (tabletmag.com)
  • Much like the history of comedy, it's the story of Jews in America . (yahoo.com)
  • The Record Breaker is a short documentary that tells the life story of Ashrita Furman, an eccentric and charming middle-aged man who happens to be the person with the most Guinness World Records of all time. (documentarystorm.com)
  • This 1996 feature-length documentary presents Troy James Hurtubise, an adventurer that willingly goes face to face with Canada's grizzly bear- the deadliest land mammal in the country. (documentarystorm.com)
  • Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (USA), one of the semi-finalists in the Academy's documentary feature category, received the Palm Springs festival's Audience Award for best non-fiction film. (altfg.com)
  • This amazing 90-minute Discovery Channel feature documentary was written, co-edited and associate-produced by Kim MacQuarrie and narrated by Linda Hunt. (documentarystorm.com)
  • For those thousands of American Jews a step removed from the fight to free their captive landsmen, this film brings the struggle full circle. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The 36-year-old Bialis hopes the film can serve as a teaching tool to young Jews who know little, if anything about the Refusenik struggle. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The Jews' tight-knit community and shared experience began to disappear with assimilation, and success within North American society removed their reasons to complain or be fearful. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some of the 112 interviews are with Natan Sharansky and his wife Avital, and Vladimir Slepak, as well as American Jews who took up their cause and congressmen such as Fr. (timesofisrael.com)
  • It is about the connection and history between American Jews and baseball . (yahoo.com)
  • He also consults on documentary projects, such as Jews of the Wild West, now featured on PBS. (jpost.com)
  • Five years in the making, "Refusenik" is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the 30-year grassroots movement to free Soviet Jews, according to its director, Laura Bialis. (timesofisrael.com)
  • It's very personal to be here, in this building," says the director, who describes the documentary as surreal and affecting. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Join film director and best-selling novelist Robert Lieberman in his Public Television screened documentary as he returns to his childhood home Kew Gardens in the outskirts of New York City. (deepdiscount.com)
  • Documentary evidence of Jews living in Augsburg dates from 1212. (geni.com)
  • But no documentary evidence has been found to confirm the suggestion. (catholic.com)
  • The chapter also describes the exceptionally harsh proscriptions under which their presence was tolerated, how, through exorbitant levels of taxation, the rulers of the time quietly enriched themselves at their expense (the origins of a reputation for lending rapaciousness), and how volatile popular movements founded in deep ignorance and superstition (for example, the flagellants) left European Jews in fear for their lives at almost every turn. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Later, the first entrepreneurs to really understand the potential of the city's strategic location and access to a large population were Sephardic Jews from the Middle East. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The documentary chronicles the efforts of Daniel Ellsberg, who smuggled a top-secret report about the history of the Vietnam War out of a safe in his office and into the pages of the New York Times . (altfg.com)
  • The documentary is meant to be shared as much as possible and can be easily downloaded for free for public viewing, in 4K resolution. (harrysstory.ca)
  • Years later (last Sunday to be exact), sitting in my living room watching the film documentary, "Refusenik," I finally saw what Yevgeny Lein looked like. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Filmed in 2002, this documentary provides an inside look at Thailand's notorious nightlife through the eyes of one of the thousands of young women who work the scene. (documentarystorm.com)
  • The videos which then became this movie were taken and put together by someone participating on one side of a propaganda war, and not by an objective film maker seeking to document reality - as is the role of documentaries - that fact should have sounded alarm bells for a professional actor of Hoffman's stature. (jewishpress.com)
  • It was a time when it was known as the "wicked old Paris of the East," and, as he discovered in the course of research, it was also a doomed world in which Jews had a starring role. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Koshofer is aiming to show that the answers to many questions are as varied as the number of Jews who live in the world today. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • This documentary, filmed over a 10 year period, revolves around the life of Robert T. Edison, a Buddhist monk in Thailand, originally from Nottingham, England, that decides to revisit the "normal" world after practicing Buddhism and living in monasteries for over a decade. (documentarystorm.com)