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From left to right: Meghan Leathers, Jon Bass, Theo Taplitz, Kyra Sedgwick, Method Man, Milana Vayntrub, Adam Mitchell, and Daniel Robbins speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 'Bad Shabbos' opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on February 19, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Derek White/ AFP)
February 25, 2026, 11:03 pm
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes over anti-Zionist juror judging human rights films
Israeli consulate claims evaluator shared antisemitic content, withdraws support from the event after organizers say the decision is irreversible as selections have been finalized
By Jackie Hajdenberg
'Maus' creator Art Spiegelman in the film 'Disaster is My Muse,' being screened December 12, 2025, at the Jewish Film Festival in Jerusalem (Courtesy Manifesto Production)
December 11, 2025, 10:37 am
Movies on non-Zionist ‘Maus’ creator among diverse features in capital’s Hanukkah film fest
Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Jewish Film Festival, running Dec. 13-18, captures Jews’ varied voices, including two docus on Art Spiegelman, who doesn’t even want to think about Israel
By Jessica Steinberg
Rabbi Moses 'Mo' Zaltzman, played by actor Mark Feuerstein, in 'Guns & Moses.' (Courtesy)
March 16, 2025, 6:19 am
A gunslinging rabbi takes on an antisemitic whodunit in this thrilling Jewish Western
Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, ‘Guns & Moses’ targets all-too-real themes for US Jews while keeping audiences on the edge of their seats
By Rich Tenorio
Civil rights leaders Roy Wilkins and A. Phillip Randolph during a protest at Maryland's Glen Echo Park in 1960. (Courtesy/George Meany Library)
January 14, 2025, 7:42 am
Film charts lasting impact of rollercoaster Black-Jewish protest of segregated park
Documentary film ‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,’ screening Jan. 29 at the NY Jewish Film Festival, shows how a 1960 neighborhood demonstration in Maryland shifted civil rights
By Luke Tress
Filmmaker Leslie Gelrubin Benitah sees the devastation wrought on Kibbutz Be'eri during the Hamas assault of October 7, 2023, in this still from 'Milk and Honey, Blood and Tears.' (Courtesy)
January 9, 2025, 2:51 am
Some Jewish film festivals tiptoe around Oct. 7. A Miami festival is leaning into it
Running from Jan. 9-23, the Miami Jewish Film Festival features 13 films dealing with the Hamas atrocities, to help combat denial of the tragedy and make victims’ voices heard
By Rich Tenorio
Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, Ontario on March 20, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube)
March 21, 2024, 5:37 am
Canadian theater accused of stalling Jewish festival over inclusion of Israeli film
Playhouse Cinema in Ontario says decision to postpone due to security concerns, but Jewish federation says theater succumbed to a few complaints, threats regarding lineup
By Andrew Lapin
A still from 'Sevap/Mitzvah' a short film directed by Sabina Vajrača that won the 2023 Humanitas Prize. (©geminisnakeproductions via JTA)
November 4, 2023, 4:07 pm
Bosnian director’s short on Muslims and Jews saving one another is a ‘mitzvah’
In Sabina Vajrača’s award-winning film, a Muslim family saves a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returns the favor in Sarajevo
By Shira Li Bartov
A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)
June 16, 2023, 12:16 am
Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films
From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher
By Jordan Hoffman
A still from 'My Mexican Shivah,' one of 10 films screening at the first-ever Mexican Jewish Film Festival in New York City on April 2, 2023. (YouTube screenshot/ used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 1, 2023, 1:27 pm
How a run-in with Guillermo del Toro led to NYC’s first Mexican Jewish Film Festival
After meeting the famed filmmaker at a cocktail reception, Deborah Koenigsberger Gutierrez had an epiphany about her identity – and created the new festival, which opens on April 2
By Jackie Hajdenberg
In this still from the new historical dramatic film 'The Light of Hope,' Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz speaks with Pat, one of the children at her maternity hospital that she ran for refugees from 1939 to 1944 in Elne, France. (Courtesy)
March 12, 2019, 5:08 am
How one Swiss nurse hid hundreds of pregnant women and their kids from the Nazis
‘The Light of Hope’ shares the little-known story of Elisabeth Eidenbenz, who saved young refugees during the Spanish Civil War and WWII through her French maternity clinic
By Rich Tenorio
Ariana Cohen-Halberstam, the artistic director of the Boston Israeli Film Festival, interviews Yair Lev, the director of the documentary 'You Only Die Twice' over Skype in Newton, Massachusetts, February 10, 2019. (Julie Masis/ Times of Israel)
February 14, 2019, 2:01 pm
In icy Boston, Sabras cram the aisles for first annual Israeli Film Festival
Despite last-minute snow cancellations and delayed screenings, the weeklong event’s organizers say nearly 2,000 will have attended by the festival’s end
By Julie Masis
Assi Cohen, left, as Broide, and Daniella Kertesz as Anna in 'Autonomies.' (Courtesy)
January 21, 2019, 3:51 pm
Dystopian drama ‘Autonomies’ stands on its own at NY Jewish Film Festival
By the creator of ‘Shtisel,’ the six-part series depicts an Israel officially divided after bitter civil war turns the country into walled-off religious and secular states
By Jordan Hoffman
Portuguese army captain Arthur Carlos de Barros Basto (Rodrigo Santos) presides at the head of the table with his wife Lea and child in a scene from the new historical drama 'Sefarad.' (Courtesy Miami Jewish Film Festival)
January 15, 2019, 1:04 pm
Historical drama depicts untold story of the 1930s ‘Portuguese Dreyfus Affair’
Premiering January 15 in Miami, ‘Sefarad’ is the tale of a real-life Marrano WWI war hero who converts to Judaism, revives Oporto Jewry, and is expelled from the military for it
By Rich Tenorio
Nicola Galliner being questioned on stage by publicist Sergey Lagodinsky at the Jewish Culture Day in Berlin, August 1, 2015. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/Flikr)
June 15, 2018, 4:27 am
Daughter of Holocaust survivors honored for founding German Jewish film festival
Nicola Galliner, whose 24th annual Jewish Film Festival Berlin-Brandenburg begins later this month, presented with Distinguished Service award
By JTA
Gershon Leizerson and The Yiddish Blues Drifters are scheduled to perform this year at the Yiddish Summer Weimar Festival in Weimar, Germany. (Maoz Fistuch/JTA)
July 14, 2017, 8:04 am
5 Jewish cultural festivals to rock your summer
Yiddish theater, Jewish movies, Klezmer and other music festivals around the globe host performances, workshops and tours
By JTA
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