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Jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen - Live musical performance by Anat Cohen and John Pizzarelli - "I Wanna Be Around" - Jazz stays vital by virtue of the young players who step up and bring something new to the music. One of the most delightful "arrivals" to the jazz world in the past several years is Israeli-born clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She combines virtuosity with warmth, the experimental with the universal, and an eclecticism that avoids the pitfalls of mish-mosh. In Anat...
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Gentleman's Agreement Trailer - The best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand in a personal way the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Hart wrote the script, based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson. Release Year: 1948. This book turned movie was one of the great hits of its time - the book topped the best-seller list...
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Documentary profiling Debbie Friedman, leading contemporary singer/songwriter of Jewish Music, will premiere on Hallmark Channel. "A Journey of Spirit", which won the best film award from the National Council for Jewish Women, and the Detroit Jewish Film Festival award for best new Jewish film, among others, chronicles the inspirational story of Ms. Friedman and how she has affected contemporary Jewish music and countless lives in the process.
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USHPIZIN (Complete in Hebrew - Part 1 of 2 - runtime 46:53) - A Warmhearted, Upbeat Fable in an Exotic Setting - the award-winning Ushpizin (2004) is a pleasant little film that takes place in an ultra-Orthodox community in modern-day Jerusalem, but its message is universal. The dialogue is in Hebrew, and the DVD provides English and Spanish subtitles. The story is about the clash between the religious and the secular, but what I like best about the movie is its humanism. The central...
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USHPIZIN (Complete in Hebrew - Part 2 of 2 - runtime 45:37) - A Warmhearted, Upbeat Fable in an Exotic Setting - the award-winning Ushpizin (2004) is a pleasant little film that takes place in an ultra-Orthodox community in modern-day Jerusalem, but its message is universal. The dialogue is in Hebrew, and the DVD provides English and Spanish subtitles. The story is about the clash between the religious and the secular, but what I like best about the movie is its humanism. The central...
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