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THE TOLLBOOTH - WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DEBRA KIRSCHNER - STARRING MARLA SOKOLOFF, TOVAH FELDSHUH, RONALD GUTTMAN, LIZ STAUBER, ROB MCEHENNEY, JAYCE BARTOK AND IDINA MENZEL. The Tollbooth comically explores a Jewish family from Brooklyn through the eyes of Sarabeth Cohen (Sokoloff) – a struggling painter in her first year out of art school. Sarabeth and her older sisters Becky (Stauber) and Raquel (Menzel) come of age and question the values of their traditional parents. Sarabeth's...
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Jewish movie director icon Steven Spielberg's "An American Tail," with a family of Russian mice, a gang of rats and a cockroach in a cameo appearance, is the amazing storyteller's first animated feature. It's a melting-pot movie for little Americans, full of immigrant dreams. Director Don Bluth and a cadre of other Disney emigres create this classically drawn and effect-filled tale whose characters themselves are refugees. A family of Russian mice flee the Cossacks for the cobblestones of New...
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Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East (2003)- 62 minutes. Producers: Raphael Shore, Pael Seidman of Honest Reporting. Directors: Wayne Kopping, Brian K. Spector. "Relentless" uses primary source video clips to examine the history of the Mideast conflict and how the Oslo peace process unraveled in a surge of violence. Interviews with relatives of Jewish victims of palestinian terrorism, clips from palestinian TV encouraging terrorism and footage of viciously anti-Semitic...
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Rabbi Hershel Schachter - Is there A Chiyuv to Make Aliyah? - 42 min - Mar 11, 2007 Leil Iyun - Washington Heights, N.Y.C., N.Y. - One of the foremost authorities on Jewish Law (Halacha) takes a sober and honest look at the Torah viewpoint on "aliyah", moving to Israel.
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THE NATIVE NEW YORKER FILM: Filmed with a 1924 hand-crank Cine-Kodak camera, Shaman Trail Scout 'Coyote' takes a journey which transcends time, from Inwood Park (where the island was traded for beads and booze), down a native trail (now 'Broadway'), into lower Manhattan (sacred burial ground, now including the newest natives of this island empire).'Native New Yorker' took several years of filming, with a present running length of 13 minutes. This is a film by Steve Bilich with an original...
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