By Jordana Horn
Documentaries at the New York Jewish Film Festival profile a famed leader of the Entebbe raid and an Ethiopian immigrant. The common theme: being an Israeli.
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By Jordana Horn
A new film about the famed Catskills resort Kutsher’s debuts at the New York Jewish Film Festival. It lays out the hotel’s grand history with a minimum of schmaltzy nostalgia.
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By Jordana Horn
Jordana Horn does not believe anyone should celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas. This strikes some interfaith families as unduly strident, but she isn’t backing down.
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By Jordana Horn
Jews buried some of their most precious possessions at Majdanek concentration camp. A moving new film tells the story of survivors who returned to unearth them.
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By Jordana Horn
Like a sepia-tinged version of VH1’s ‘Behind the Music,’ a new documentary uses Jascha Heifetz’s home movies to flesh out the picture of a man who played the violin like a god.
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