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Neil Friedman likes to think of his company, Menemsha Films, an exclusive distributor of Jewish and Israeli films, like a Jewish book club.

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. From 'Thou Shalt Not Hate,' one of the films being shown at the upcoming Eighth Italian Cinema Festival, opening June 3, at Cinematheques around the country (Courtesy Cinema Italia) It will be a week of “cinema paradiso” when the eighth Cinema Italia opens on June 3 in Israel’s Cinematheque arthouse theaters. The 16 films being shown at the eight Cinematheques in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Herzliya, Holon, Rosh Pina, Sderot and Ofakim range in genre and include heavy historical dramas, satire, classic ...

Virtual Jewish film festival Published: 5/13/2021 8:12:13 AM It’s the Bar Mitzvah celebration for this year’s New Hampshire Jewish Film Festival – which will screen independent and foreign films from eight countries from May 19 through June 10. The international lineup includes selections from the United States, Israel, Ethiopia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland and Switzerland. Eleven feature films will be making their New Hampshire premieres! The NHJFF is following an all-virtual format for the second time due to the pandemic. Festival attendees will have a 72-hour window to watch each...

“Aulcie” (Photo courtesy of JFilm) “Aulcie” English/Hebrew; 74 minutes More than 40 years before NBA superstar Amar’e Stoudemire suited up for Maccabi Tel Aviv, another American-born basketball player took Israel by storm. After being cut from the New York Knicks in 1975, Aulcie Perry, a 6’10” overlooked center, arrived in the Jewish state. Perry’s ability to lead Maccabi Tel Aviv to two EuroLeague Championships, and captivate a country’s heart during nine seasons of play, begins director Dani Menkin’s 74-minute film. As the documentary unfolds, however, the Israeli hero�...

The 25th annual Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival has gone all virtual, running from Feb. 28 to April 2. If the lineup looks the same as last year’s festival, that’s because to a great degree it is. In 2020 the fest was supposed to run from March 5 to 15. But on March 12, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the fest came to a sudden stop.