Added: 14th November 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 58 Comments:0
"God On Trial" - PBS - Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Dominic Cooper, and Stellan Skarsgard star in this harrowing drama about believers and non-believers coming to terms with a world drenched in evil and suffering. Celebrated screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is based on the often told,...
Added: 15th July 2008 Posted By:moviejewie Views: 193 Comments:0
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...
Added: 3rd June 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 82 Comments:0
"Yiddish Theatre in America" - Author/film critic J. Hoberman, music director of the San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, actor Fyvush Finkel, and playwright Tony Kushner discuss the importance of the Yiddish Theater. Mr. Thomas is the grandson of Boris Thomashefsky, the premiere star of...
Added: 21st May 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 243 Comments:0
SHLOMO is a new musical about the life of the the foremost Jewish Music personality of the 20th century, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. This video is brief interview with the play's Director, David Schechter. With a musical score that includes over 40 of Carlebach's soulful and joyous melodies, the...
Added: 21st May 2008 Posted By:wejew Views: 150 Comments:0
Legendary Jewish actress Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in New York City, the only child of Natalie (Bacal or Weinstein), a secretary, and William Perske, who worked in sales. Her parents were Jewish immigrants, their families having come from France, Poland, Romania and Germany. Her...