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Just before his dastardly Gaza deportation of 10,000 Jews from their homes, ultra-Orthodox Jews invoked the Kabbalistic Pulsa d'Nura ("Lashes of Fire") curse against its instigator Ariel Sharon, that he should die within the year. As with his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, who was also so cursed, and was killed one month to the day, Sharon was felled six months to the day of this cursing. The Pulsa's wording makes chilling reading: "On Ariel the son of Vera of the family Sheinerman, we request...
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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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Jewish comic legend and prolific movie director, Mel Brooks, talks about his Jewish upbringing, growing up Moshe ("Melvin") Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York.
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Try the Pastrami, It's Divine! - The documentary "Divine Food: 100 Years in the Kosher Delicatessen Trade" tells the story of the Oscherwitz family and their passion for making kosher corned beef, pastrami and other classic deli fare. Making mouth-watering delicacies that are good for your tastebuds and your soul has been the business of the Oscherwitz family for more than a century. Taking a tasty look at their meats, the hunger-inducing documentary shares Isaac Oscherwitz' rise from...
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OUT OF FAITH, a feature-length documentary (82:00), follows three generations of a family torn apart by conflicts over interfaith marriage. The family's matriarch, Leah Welbel, and her husband Eliezer, both survived nearly three years in Auschwitz; however, in their minds, their grandchildren marrying non-Jews represents a posthumous victory for Hitler. OUT OF FAITH examines these issues by capturing the intimate details of one family's attempt to persevere in the face of a heart wrenching...
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