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A new movie about fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg explores her mother’s Holocaust experience

The film includes handwritten letters from her mother written during the Holocaust and footage of von Furstenberg as she visits the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Brussels.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
07/06/2024

Israeli Cinema Day celebrates creativity amid Israel-Hamas war

Fittingly, one of the movies will be the documentary #Nova, about the October 7 massacre at the music festival in Re’im.

Keep the change you filthy animal: 'Home Alone' house hits market for $5.25m.

The infamous Home Alone house at 671 Lincoln Ave. in Winnetka, Illinois, a nostalgic piece of classic Christmas history, has hit the market for the first time in more than a decade.

By JESSICA JONES-GORMAN/LA TIMES/TNS
02/06/2024

‘The Commandant’s Shadow’ tells the true story behind ‘The Zone of Interest’

The Jewish subjects of the documentary say they do not see the story as uniquely Jewish.

By JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
29/05/2024

Richard Sherman, Jewish songwriter of Mary Poppins, dead at age 95

Sherman passed at a Beverly Hills, California, hospital. The cause was only listed as an "age-related illness," a Disney obituary said.

By REUTERS
26/05/2024

What to watch this week as Israel marks two monumental days

There is a lot of television and movie programming this year that honors them and those they left behind, as well as Independence Day-themed content.

'June Zero': An obscure story about Eichmann in Israel after the trial

People forget that Eichmann spent about two years in Israel, as investigators interrogated him before the trial, during his trial, and in the period of appeals that followed the trial.

'Perfect Days': Less a movie, more like moving in with a stranger

The movie tells the story of a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo, one of the cleanest cities in the world.

Disney's Lion King: Is Mufasa Jewish? Parallels between Mufasa and Jewish scripture suggest he is

"The Lion King" echoes ancient Jewish tales through parallels with Joseph, Moses, and Jewish symbolism, enriching its narrative with Judeo-Christian elements and cultural resonance.

'The Blue Caftan': An unusual love triangle in Morocco

Silk is at the center of a moving drama about a couple in a small Moroccan city who make silk caftans in their workshop, which turns into an unusual love triangle.

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