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By Ronnie Friedland
Review of Jonathan Metzger’s film Bit By Bit, about a Nintendo-obsessed Swedish Jewish boy, his non-Jewish girlfriend, and his family’s seder on the eve of a big Nintendo competition that he tries to keep secret.
Date: 02-16-2007
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By Nate Bloom
Interfaith and Jewish celebrity connections to the new movie The Dark Knight.
Date: 07-22-2008
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By Naomi Pfefferman
Profiles of Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen, co-authors of the play and film Kissing Jessica Stein, about an interdating lesbian couple.
Date: 02-22-2007
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By Ronnie Friedland
Review of Anya In and Out of Focus, a documentary made by a father of his daughter’s life from birth to adulthood as her family moves from Poland and settles in the United States.
Date: 06-18-2007
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By Naomi Pfefferman
Interview with Karin Albou, the director of La Petite Jerusalem, a film about a Jewish girl in Paris who falls in love with a Muslim boy.
Date: 10-16-2006
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By Ronnie Friedland
Profile of Heidi Emberling, who directed a documentary called Tangled Roots about her own Jewish identity struggle.
Date: 05-03-2007
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By Carolyn Slutksy
News article about how non-Jews are celebrating and supporting Jewish culture in Krakow, Poland, a city with few remaining Jews.
Date: 12-21-2006
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By Naomi Pfefferman
Review of Lost and Delirious, a film that explores the lesbian affair of adolescent girls at a boarding school. Also contains brief profile of director Lea Pool (an adult child of interfaith marriage).
Date: 02-16-2007
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By Ronnie Friedland
Review of Would I Lie To You?, a comical French film about a man who pretends to be Jewish amongst new Jewish friends, rises to success and ultimately finds the Jewish girl he wants to marry, who then finds out he is indeed a Christian.
Date: 02-15-2007
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By Michael Fox
Review of Following Sean, a documentary about a boy who grew up with hippie parents in the sixties and compares his life to the filmmaker’s life and family of Jewish leftists.
Date: 06-18-2007