Your weekly “Torah In Ten” videocast -  Parshas Eikev
Brooklyn, NY – Kol Menachem, the organization behind the critically acclaimed series of  English Judaica, is announcing a new venture – Torah in Ten.
In this go, go, go world we live in, it can be difficult to sit down and find time to study the weekly parsha. And [...]

The art of painting is now at one’s fingertips – literally. The 21st century has ushered in a new wave of digital artworks reflective of our modern times, with the LCD screen slowly gaining on the easel.
Realist painter David Kassan is one such pioneer exploring new methods of artistic expression through digital media. Recently, he [...]

Your weekly “Torah In Ten” videocast -  Parshas Va’etchanan
Brooklyn, NY – Kol Menachem, the organization behind the critically acclaimed series of  English Judaica, is announcing a new venture – Torah in Ten.
In this go, go, go world we live in, it can be difficult to sit down and find time to study the weekly parsha. And [...]

Israel is a land and a people. The history of the Jewish people, and its roots in the Land of Israel, spans some 35 centuries.
In this land, its cultural, national and religious identity was formed;  here,  its physical presence has been maintained unbroken throughout the centuries,  even after the majority was forced into exile.
With the [...]

“Those Were Nights” (Hayu Leilot) – Israel Movie DVD 2010 - Israeli drama, 2010.  The story of a daughter living for her father,  broken in spirit after the family fell apart,  but who wants to break free.
Goni Ben Shmuel (Maya Cohen) had a charmed life until she was seven years old – a beloved and spoiled [...]

Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv are two young writers & directors from Tel-Aviv. They graduated together from “Camera Obscurs Film School Tel Aviv”. They made “Strangers“,  a 7 minutes drama for 20th century Fox Serachlight. “Strangers” was accepted to the short competition at Sundance film festival 2004 and won for best short. It also went [...]

Hufshat Kaitz (English title - ”My Father My Lord“, 2007) – With the primordial clarity of fable, David Volach’s astonishing debut feature recalls that most terrible of Jewish parables, Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac, but without the biblical last-minute reprieve.
Set in a contemporary Israeli ultra-Orthodox community and thesped by a trio of magnificent actors [...]

Out of the Blue (Etsba Elohim) – 2008
Shabtai (Alon Abutbull) is a junkman who makes his living reclaiming and selling various cast-offs he finds while scouring the back streets of Tel Aviv.
Shabtai has been having a recurring dream in which he meets a beautiful red-headed woman who wastes no time in showing her affection for him.
Shabtai doesn’t [...]

“For my Father” (directed by Dror Zahavi),  2008 – nominated  for 7 Israeli Academy Awards
Tarek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father’s honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate.
Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, [...]

At age 11, abducted soldier Gilad Shalit wrote about a fish and a shark who meet and, though natural enemies, they decide to become friends and live in peace.
On Sunday morning (25 June 2006) in the course of an infiltration and attack by terrorists in the area of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, on the Israeli side [...]

During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were on borrowed time [...]

Movies from the  JewishHistory.org collection – Rashi & Rambam.
Rashi – In the calm before the crusades, one man forever changed the way the world would understand the Bible.
Set in the 11th Century, “Rashi” is the story of a unique hero, a Torah commentator who lived at the beginning of the Reign of  Terror – The [...]