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Three Minutes: A Lengthening, Sherry Coman
Three Minutes: A Lengthening, Sherry Coman
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021), directed by Bianca Stigter.
Where Is Anne Frank, Ken Derry
Where Is Anne Frank, Ken Derry
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of Where Is Anne Frank (2021) directed by Ari Folman.
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story Of An Image, Eric Michael Mazur
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story Of An Image, Eric Michael Mazur
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a book review of Shaina Hammerman, Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of An Image (Indiana University Press, 2018).
By And For Jewish Women Only: The Musical Film "The Heart That Sings", Celia E. Rothenberg
By And For Jewish Women Only: The Musical Film "The Heart That Sings", Celia E. Rothenberg
Journal of Religion & Film
The musical film, “The Heart that Sings” (2011), written and directed by Robin Saex Garbose, is part of a genre of films created by and for Orthodox Jewish women. Heart provides a case study that illustrates the depth and breadth of Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s (1902-1994) influence on Jews and Jewish life well beyond his own community members. Schneerson’s outreach work via his shlichim, or emissaries, to unobservant Jews is well-recognized. The extent and nuance of his influence on a broad cross-section of Jews, however, has yet to be fully traced. Heart tells its viewers that Jewish women …