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Filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum: Reconciling with Mother
Negative mother and daughter relationships are more frequent than may be imagined. Feeling defined by a mother’s pejorative observations and pronouncements is deadly for a growing child’s self-esteem....
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Love Thy Nature: Rethinking Our Connections
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the Earth.” –Rumi A new documentary, Love Thy Nature, directed by Sylvie Rokab, presents the premise that in...
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P.S. Jerusalem: Danae Elon Returns Home
As an American Jew trying to deal with the stress of Trumpland, I can only imagine the psychological ramifications of living in Israel. As that country’s drift to the right preceded America’s, so did...
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Photo: November 3, 1971 Credit: © WF/AP/Corbis As Americans struggle to deal with the divisiveness and polarity within our country, the presentation of the documentary Maya Angelou:...
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5th Annual Socially Relevant Film Festival Returns to New York
From March 16 – 22, the 5th Annual Socially Relevant Film Festival with be screening at the Cinéma Village theater in Manhattan. As expressed by Nora Armani, the founding artistic director, the goal...
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The Mindfulness Movement: Promoting Social Change
Just in time for the exacerbated stress and anxiety brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a new documentary, The Mindfulness Movement (originally slated for theater release) is available to stream...
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“Mayor” – A View from Ramallah
For most American Jews, the occupied Palestinian territories exist as an abstraction. Their towns are names that are heard on the news, often in a negative context. Director David Osit shifts that...
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Lilly Rivlin: Artist as Truth Seeker
Credit: John Turner Every era has its moments that are written and evaluated by “historians.” Creatives capture those same events through the prism of nuance, drama, and emotion. Lilly Rivlin, now 84,...
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“The Tinderbox”— Documentary Looks at Israel/Palestine Conundrum
With a shift in American and Israeli leadership, the armed hostilities between the Israeli government and Hamas in May, and street riots within mixed Israeli cities, Diaspora Jews are beginning to...
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‘I Am Here’— Lessons from a Holocaust Survivor
As the last Holocaust survivors die, despite documentation and recorded oral histories, the connection to lived experience disappears with them.In “I’m Still Here,” the story of Ella Blumenthal is...
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