Added: 17th November 2008 Posted By:moviejewie Views: 39 Comments:0
The 'Hasidic Steven Spielberg' is torn between his passion for filmmaking and his socially conservative community that frowns upon it. "Film Fanatic" is the story of a man who struggles to make great films while still being accepted by his fellow ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, Jews, who don't...
Added: 27th October 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 115 Comments:0
"Left Luggage" Trailer (1998) - While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look...
Added: 26th October 2008 Posted By:moviejewie Views: 67 Comments:0
"Souvenirs" Trailer - Shahar is an unemployed filmmaker. His father, Sleiman, a strict 82 year old Yemenite, is unhappy with Shahar's life style. The golden age of Sleiman's life was his service in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army during WWII, of which he constantly bragged to his sons. As...
Added: 7th September 2008 Posted By:ourtorah Views: 78 Comments:0
"Remember what Amalek did to you along the way as you came out of Egypt." (Deuteronomy 25:19) G-d wants us to be on fire in the way we serve Him, but Amalek, the enemy of G-d, wants to "cool" us off, enticing us to trade in our passion for walking in G-d's way, with complacency with doing the...
Added: 29th August 2008 Posted By:ourtorah Views: 74 Comments:0
At the Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, Isralight Founder and Dean Rabbi David Aaron acknowledges that people feel special. In his lecture on Joy and Judaism, Rabbi David Aaron says that we all ultimately seek to be who we are, that is - rays of G-d in this world. Our deepest joy, per...