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 | The Year My Parents Went on Vacation – a film review |
 "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" is a coming of age story by filmmaker Cao Hamburger that gives the viewer an enlightening look at the events in Brazil in 1970 through the eyes of Mauro, a twelve year old boy, who is consumed by soccer and Brazil’s world cup team. Mauro’s parents are on the run from Brazil’s government dictatorship. In order to keep him safe, his parents leave Mauro by his grandfather in the Sao Paulo district of Bom Retiro (a district known for its diverse communities living in harmony - including an orthodox Jewish community). Unbeknown to his parents, Mauro’s grandfather dies the day that Mauro arrives. Mauro is looked after by his grandfather’s neighbor an elderly orthodox Jewish man, who has a job in the local synagogue. Mauro is left in a strange community and district and must learn to survive on his own until his parents return for him.
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| Making Arrangements – a film review of "Arranged" |
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The age old question of how to find Mr. Right is the basis of the film
"Arranged" by Stefan Schaefer, Diane Crespo, and Yuta Silverman. What
makes this film different than all of the other romantic comedies or
dramas that explore this theme is the unconventional two central
characters in the film – an orthodox Jewish woman and a devoted Muslim
woman from Syria. The filmmakers take a bold leap by exploring this
common theme within two traditional cultures that are rarely depicted
on film together.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Wednesday, January 02 @ 19:25:28 PST
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| Primo Levi’s Journey – a film review |
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Primo Levi’s Journey is a new documentary about the path Primo Levi took through Europe once
he was liberated from Auschwitz. The documentary uses voice over
narration from Primo Levi’s book "The Truce" (about his eight-month
journey to Italy via various locations in Europe after being liberated
from Auschwitz) over modern day footage of the locations that he wrote
about. The viewer gains some insight about these locations and what has
happened to them since World War II.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Wednesday, September 19 @ 18:29:53 PDT
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| "The Bubble" – an Eyton Fox film |
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"Love, Love Tel Aviv" is the slogan on the T-shirt designed by Lulu
that is worn by most of the main characters in Eyton Fox’s latest film,
"The Bubble." The T-shirt depicts the yearning for peace, sensitivity,
tolerance, and freedom of four young people who live in and around Tel
Aviv. The film tries to depict how three Israelis (Lulu, Noam, and
Yali) and one Palestinian (Ashraf) try to lead normal lives in Tel Aviv
(their bubble) while intolerance and hatred brew around them.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Monday, September 10 @ 06:37:51 PDT
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| A Night to Remember |
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One question that is asked at the Passover Seder is "Why is
this night different from all other nights?" For Hannah that question is asked
and answered during a Passover Seder when she is taken on a time traveling
adventure back to a small town in Poland where her cousin Rivkah/Eva lives.
After spending an insightful day with her cousin, she is caught off guard when
the Nazi’s invade and take the townspeople to an SS Camp in the adaptation of
"The Devil’s Arithmetic."
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| A Mighty Heart |
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The tragic kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal’s
Daniel Pearl shocked the world. Daniel’s wife Mariane told her perspective of
the events surrounding the tragic event in her best selling book which has now
been adapted into the film, "A Mighty Heart."
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;Posted by jewcentral on Wednesday, July 25 @ 00:00:00 PDT
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| The Devil Came on Horseback – a film review |
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After the atrocities of the Holocaust and again in Rwanda, the world
faces another crisis in the Darfur section of Sudan. "The Devil Came on
Horseback" is an insightful, educational, and award winning documentary
based on the book about Ben Steidle’s experiences in Sudan and how he
is trying to raise awareness of the situation in Darfur.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Tuesday, July 24 @ 19:41:45 PDT
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| One Person Can Make a Difference |
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"I Have Never Forgotten You – The Life and Legacy of Simon
Wiesenthal" is an insightful documentary about Simon Wiesenthal and how one
person can truly make a difference in the world. Filmmaker Richard Trank
convincingly mixes archival materials (photographs, documents, and old
interviews), new interviews, and new images of various locations from Mr.
Wiesenthal’s life in order to give the viewer a complete picture of a simple man
who was determined to bring justice for the inhumanity of the Holocaust.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Wednesday, July 18 @ 17:07:54 PDT
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| Wondrous Oblivion |
 Sandy Chertok reviews "Wondrous Oblivion" the new dramatic film by Paul Morrison.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Monday, October 23 @ 19:13:34 PDT
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| Finding Cezanne – a review of "Cezanne is Missing" by Frank McMillan |
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Sixty years after the Holocaust, writers are still tackling all of the
many facets of this horrendous event. The trick is how to expose it in
a new way and to a new audience, who is a generation removed from it.
Frank McMillan accepted this challenge and found a new approach to
expose a teen audience to the Holocaust through his new thriller,
"Cezanne is Missing." In this fictitious novel, McMillan uses a long
lost diary with clues to hidden treasures as the motivation for
unraveling one person’s ordeal in the Holocaust to her teenaged
grandson and her teenaged, street smart student.
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;Posted by jewcentral on Wednesday, October 04 @ 20:27:54 PDT
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