Some of cinema’s most visionary filmmakers, writers, and actors have been Jewish-Americans. The same can be said about professional baseball, comedy, politics, and many in the “Greatest Generation,” ...

They wanted to capture a growing Jewish generational divide over Israel. The Jewish makers of “Israelism” accomplished that — and then some. Over the last seven months, the documentary critiquing the ...

Four Jewish-themed, award-winning documentary films produced in Israel, the United States, Netherlands and Lithuania will be screened in person and virtually beginning Jan. 7 for four consecutive ...

Following the new scientific study by the University of Granada revealing the final resting place of Christopher Columbus, it has been concluded that Christopher Columbus was Spanish and Jewish. The ...

When Mel Brooks was filming “The Producers,” he recalled an executive approaching him and saying, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” Brooks said he would fire the actor, but never ...

The Jewish Historical Society of Long Island has released a documentary to kick off the celebration of the Jewish community’s 150th anniversary on Long Island. Brad Kolodny, president of the Jewish ...

The five new documentaries include “October 8,” “The Encampments,” “Blind Spot,” “The New Jew: Days of War” and “The Children of October 7.” A host of new documentaries are showcasing a wide array of ...

When the Boston Jewish Film Festival was founded in 1989 by filmmaker Michal Goldman, no one could have anticipated that it would grow from ten films to 45 in only 13 years. Thanks in part to the ...

Admittedly, Holocaust movies are often problematic. So much of the material is familiar and repetitive. Many audiences have ...

Jewish Story Partners (JSP), which works to "stimulate and support the highest caliber of independent films that expand the Jewish story," has selected 26 documentaries to receive $545,000 in a major ...

Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, blows the shofar outside the building in the new HBO documentary “A Tree of Life.” (HBO via JTA.org) On Feb. 21, ...