Srugim 23. Season 2 Episode 8. Hodaya takes a major leap, Amir and Yifat get in their biggest fight to date, Nati is learning how to deal with his Dad, and Reut and Roi are stilling figuring things out. This is our Mid-season finale!
The Salon 16. Jewish women discuss: gender segregation in Israel; “stuff” girls say viral videos; why American women are being left out of Jewish public life; Roe v. Wade 39 years later, and more! With Gaby Dunn, Nancy Kaufman, and Jennifer Mizrahi. Hosted by Jane Eisner and Rachel Sklar.
Beaufort This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop. As Liraz Liberti, the 22 year-old outpost commander, lays the explosives which would destroy the same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he’s been taught as an officer, and his soldier’s mental and physical disintegration.
James Journey to Jerusalem. James, a African boy sent on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, learns what it means to be a true Israeli as he suffers through a long and hard journey to the Holy Land.
Kippur.Kippur is a gut-wrenching journey through beautiful landscapes ravaged by gunfire, exploding mines, fear and desolation. It begins on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind.
Tehilim In contemporary Jerusalem, a small Jewish family leads an ordinary life until following a car accident when the father mysteriously disappears. They all deal with his absence and the difficulties of everyday life as best they can. While the adults take refuge in silence or traditions, the two children, Menachem and David, seek their own way to find their father.
Wondrous Oblivion David Wiseman is ecstatic when his new neighbors, the Samuels, build a cricket net in their backyard. However, many in the neighborhood are much less enthusiastic about sharing the neighborhood with the big-hearted Jamaican family.
35 Acres.Explore the most contentious piece of real estate on the face of the Earth. The Sharam El Sharif/Temple Mount is one of the most volatile areas in Jerusalem as it is both holy for the Jews and the Muslims. Many say that those who control it, control the entire land. This film investigates what’s happening in those 35 Acres, by documenting Palestinians and Israelis whose entire lives revolve around the area.
My Unit. Tension of dangerous patrols, stakeouts and guard duties and the friendship, trust and camaraderie that can only be forged in the heat of shared conflict and danger. Filmmaker Oded Zur captures the life of his unit from 2002 all the way to the 2006 Lebanon War.
Shield of Solomon.This is the story of four refugees from Darfur who have found sanctuary in the most unlikely place, the Jewish state of Israel. Thousands of men, women and children from Southern Sudan and the region of Darfur have been killed in what’s described as the first genocide of the 21st Century.
Not in My Name.A critical yet balanced look at the movement of the political Jewish Left Wing community in North America and their position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Filmed over a period of 2 years in the U.S., Canada, Israel, and the West Bank, the film brings to light the conflict that many Jewish idealists must face within their Jewish community.
Orthodox Stance. This New York Times “Critic’s Pick”, deemed “a damn good boxing documentary” by Salon.com, follows the life of Dmitriy Salita for three years, a young Russian immigrant pursuing a professional boxing title while maintaining a rigorous observance of Orthodox Judaism.
Who the Jew are You? When Alan Goldman’s son was born, he was not only faced with the decision of whether to circumcise him but also with the realization that Sacha was not actually Jewish. So begins a journey that asks, ‘What does it mean to be Jewish?’
Divan. To reclaim an ancestral couch upon which esteemed rabbis slept, Pearl Gluck travels from her Hasidic community in Brooklyn to her roots in Hungary. Along the way, a colorful cast of characters gets involved – the couch exporter, her ex-communist cousin in Budapest, a pair of matchmakers, and a renegade group of formerly ultra-Orthodox Jews. Divan is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery.