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Did Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian youths recently for the “crime” of picking flowers and vegetables located on a Jewish outpost... Baxter is Catholic and his wife is Jewish. Joshua Faudem, whom he hired to make the film with him and who was also near the blast, is Jewish. Baxter has pieces of bone and sinew from the terrorist attack embedded in his body, and he has partial paralysis, though he can walk with a cane. “I wanted to be involved in a film that could make a difference,” Baxter said, adding that the attack was the first time British nationals acted as terrorists in Isra...

Follow Dec. 17, 2020 On April 30, 2003, Jack Baxter was sitting in Mike’s Place along the Tel Aviv beachfront and loving every minute of it. The beer was flowing like water, loud music was playing and the pub – an important landmark for every visiting American tourist – was full to capacity with a unique blend of Hebrew and English speakers, locals and foreigners. A few days earlier, Baxter had managed to interview one of the bar girls, a new immigrant from France named Dominique Caroline Hass, for his documentary about the pub. “Sometimes my mother calls me and asks worriedly, ‘Car...

The Last Sermon Movie Review By Director: Jack Baxter Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/10/20 Opens: December 20, 2020 You can call this film director Jack Baxter’s vanity project if you like, but in any case “The Last Sermon” mirrors the kind of odyssey that will make you cheer on its filmmaker and hope that he will gain the insights he seeks. Baxter is a New York resident who was injured in the terrorist bombing of Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv in April 2003. Three people were killed and many were injured. Baxter walks around now with a cane, partially paralyzed from the suicide bomb...

[ screaming ] >> april 30th, 2003, just after midnight, seconds after an explosion. >> i was laying in a puddle of beer and blood and broken glass. this is the closest i've ever come to death. >> when the blast goes off, filmmaker jack baxter is finishing up a shoot on his documentary called "blues by the beach," about this unique bar in tel aviv. ♪ >> we started doing a documentary about mike's place. and the waitresses, the bartenders, to try to get that perspective. pretty much stay out of the politics. >> i want y'all to take care of all the people here in the house, the waitresses, the ...

Little coffee shop things or selling cakes to half of tel aviv, buying my cakes. >> it is jack's last night in israel. he's having a beer at a table outside, saying his good-byes. >> dominique was sitting next to me. that's when one of the suicide bombers came up and tried to get into the place. >> avi, the security guard, has a bad feeling when 21-year-old asif hanif walks up. >> the guy was a little bit too quick in his pace. suicide bombings were going on all the time at that particular time. so, we both looked at each other and froze. >> hanif is strapped with plastic explosives when avi k...