The Jewish Channel presents dozens of movies and documentaries every month, as well as innovative original programming focusing on news, children, and home. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find on TJC:
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| A sneak peek at our lineup of award-winning feature films. | While the smash-hit musical Mamma Mia! follows the lead character’s search for her father, in real life ABBA singer Frida didn’t know of her father’s existence until she skyrocketed to fame in her 30s. Her father was actually a Nazi, and she was actually conceived as part of Hitler’s program to propagate the Aryan race. |
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 Rabbis Roundtable, Episode 01. Brand new TJC series! What do rabbis think about Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright? Rabbis of different denominations debate this and other hot-button issues, including Bush’s policies on Israel, Eliot Spitzer’s infidelities, and interfaith marriage. |
 Forward Forum. Leading journalists from the Forward newspaper share their expert insight and inside information on today’s top news stories, including the presidential campaign, America’s relationship with Israel, the changing face of the Jewish community, and more! |
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 Inside the Issues, Episode 03. Forward’s J.J. Goldberg digs deep on Americans’ health. In this excerpt, he examines the surprising effects of agricultural trends on consumers with the Assoc. Director of the American Council on Science and Health. |
 TJC Movie Talk, Episode 04. Forward’s Alana Newhouse gets the scoop on former MG-mogul Louis B. Mayer’s Jewish Hollywood legacy with Jewish-celebrity profiler Abigail Pogrebin. |
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 Time of Favor. Winner of five Israeli Academy Awards, Oscar-nominated director Joseph Cedar’s first feature film, which the New York Times calls an “art house thriller.” |
 Amen. Truth-based thriller from Oscar-winning director Costa-Gavras, weaves a riveting tale of moral and religious conflict. The story of an SS officer who fought to stop Hitler’s genocide. |
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 Caravan 841. Young Ethiopian immigrant Moshe wants something stable to believe in. With the help of a rabbi who tells him to trust in God, and a jazz musician who tells him to trust in himself, Moshe struggles as an outsider in Israel, learning to hope. |
 Katzhen. “Israeli Oliver Twist” shares the beautiful but sad story of a young orphan who decides to take control of his own destiny. Traveling across Israel in search of love and stability, Katzhen finds it in unexpected places. |
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 Click here for a list of films currently playing in the Israel category. |
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 Film Fanatic. “Hasidic Steven Spielberg” is torn between his passion for filmmaking and his community that frowns upon it. One man’s struggle to make a great film that his fellow ultra-Orthodox Jews will consider kosher. |
 Lullaby. Over 150 Israeli and Palestinian children have been killed since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000 — each child’s death tore a mother’s world apart. The heartbreaking story of those grieving mothers in their own words. |
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 Click here for a list of films currently playing in the America category. |
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 Awake Zion. Rastas have dreadlocks, Jews have side-curls. This documentary, which The Village Voice called “humorous, sometimes mind-blowing,” takes a deeper look into this connection. |
 They Came For Good. PBS documentary examines the personalities who shaped the Jewish-American experience from the first Sephardic settlers in the 1600s to the rise of mid-19th century mega-merchants like Levi Straus. |
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