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  • Interfaith Celebrities:Iron Man 2

    By Nate Bloom

    The second Iron Man movie features stars from interfaith backgrounds, including Robert Downey Jr., Gwynneth Paltrow and the delicious Scarlett Johansson.

    Date: 04-27-2010
  • Something Like An Interfaith Family

    By Monica Raymond

    A film about a Puerto Rican family at Christmas features Debra Messing as a Jewish daughter-in-law.

    Date: 12-19-2008
  • Interfaith Celebrities: Rudolph Takes a Trip

    By Nate Bloom

    Maya Rudolph appears in a new movie by director Sam Mendes and James Franco is to star in another film as poet Alan Ginsberg.

    Date: 06-09-2009
  • Permanent Adolescence: Interfaith Marriage in Two Lovers

    By Micah Sachs

    I have rarely seen a film get so many subtle Jewish cultural details just right: the pot roast at dinner, the goofy candle-lighting at a bar mitzvah reception, even the smell of mothballs in Leonard's parents' apartment.

    Date: 02-27-2009
  • The Reel Deal

    By Jen Jones

    A profile of Lacey Schwartz, a documentary filmmaker who has made a movie of her own experience growing up as a biracial Jew.

    Date: 07-14-2009
  • Teens Take On the Jewish Holidays in Short Films

    By Lindsey Silken

    Teens direct three short films for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival about their complicated families and the Jewish holidays.

    Date: 02-10-2009
  • Tickling Leo: A Tale of Love and Loss

    By Hedi Molnar

    First time director Jeremy Davidson's film Tickling Leo reaches deeply into the lives of a family of Holocaust survivors.

    Date: 09-04-2009
  • Interfaith Celebrities: People With Pretty Faces

    By Nate Bloom

    Nate Bloom tells us which of People's 100 Most Beautiful and Time's 100 Most Influential People are Jewish or in interfaith families. Plus, Michael J. Fox is an optimist.

    Date: 05-12-2009
  • A Christian Singer of Jewish Songs in Ladino and Yiddish

    By Joseph Leichman

    Maria Krupoves, a Lithuanian Catholic professor of music, sings Sephardic music with Morrocan Jewish musician Gerard Edery.

    Date: 06-19-2008
  • Revered or Reviled--The Legacy of Kasztner

    By Hedi Molnar

    Egon Mayer, a Jewish community leader on issues of integrating interfaith families, was rescued from the Nazi Holocaust by a controversial figure whose story is featured in a new documentary film.

    Date: 11-09-2009

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