The next seven days are a veritable Vinnie’s calzone of specialty cinema.
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Savannah Jewish Film Festival returns for 16th year
Included in this year’s lineup are films like The Keeper, which tells the true story of Bert Trautmann, a German soldier who becomes a football star in post-war Britain
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From Sholom Aleichem to Spock
LOOK, there’s always going to be a Holocaust movie. The undeniable horror of Hitler’s genocide left an indelible scar on Jewish history, and its seemingly infinite tales of tragedy and […]
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Jewish Film Fest: Something for the whole mishpocha
Any way you slice it, the 12th Annual Joan and Murray Gefen Memorial Savannah Jewish Film Festival is quite a mouthful. Fortunately, SJFF organizers have arranged the festival’s tremendous breadth […]
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Jewish Film Fest biopic stars improbably sexy Sophie Tucker
Possessed with a formidable girth and an even fuller voice, Sophie Tucker reigned over every single performance platform that existed in the early 20th century.
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Dr. Harold Black talks about the rotten tooth in Emory’s history
During Buhler’s “reign of terror,” prospective dental students had to check a box on their applications categorizing them as “Caucasian, Jew or Other.”
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Have you heard the one about the Jewish Sumo wrestlers?
What do sumo wrestlers, transgender elder care workers, émigrés in Vietnam and beauty pageant contestants all have in common? If you answered that they were all encompassed by the spectrum […]