The Jewish Community Center of Youngstown will screen “The Spy Behind Home Plate”’ as part of its Newman Levy speaker series at 6 p.m. Sept. 5 at its center, 505 Gypsy Lane.
Mario Mendoza, a lifetime .215 hitter during his Major League Baseball career, is best known for being the source of the name of the threshold for batting ineptitude: the “Mendoza Line.”
Chances are good that a film like “The Last,” which takes place during Rosh Hashanah and is about a Holocaust survivor and three generations of her Jewish-American family, will be about rejoicing, introspection and repentance.
(JTA) — Israeli actress Gal Gadot thanked the crew and cast of her latest film as shooting on “Wonder-Woman 1984” wrapped up.
First and foremost, British filmmaker Amma Asante’s “Where Hands Touch” is a romantic period piece and coming of age drama that revolves around two teenagers who fall in love.
“The Cakemaker” – the first feature film from Israeli writer and director Ofir Raul Graizer – follows in the flour-imprinted footsteps of Lasse Hallström’s “Chocolat,” Jon Favreau’s “Chef,” and Ang Lee's “Eat, Drink, Man, Woman.”
The feature-length documentary tells the story of three Israeli combat veterans whose injuries from recent battles motivate them to rebuild their lives and search for new identities, physically and emotionally.
It’s rare enough for a Jewish baseball player to make it to the major leagues. A New York Jew named Moe Berg took it even a step further — he added war spy to his extraordinary resume.
Israeli cinema has grown from a fledgling industry with poor cinematography, curtailed subject matter and low box office sales to a darling of world film festivals and an increasingly visible and promising industry.
(JTA) — Filmmaker Milos Forman, famous for the Academy Award-winning films “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeaus,” has died.
Scarlett Johansson is in final negotiations to star in a film where she would portray a German mother who is hiding a Jewish girl in her home from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Itzhak Perlman is, perhaps, the only living classical musician whose name is recognizable in most households. A true virtuoso, his playing is like “praying with the violin” according to renowned violinmaker Amnon Weinstein.
Itzhak Perlman is, perhaps, the only living classical musician whose name is recognizable in most households. A true virtuoso, his playing is like “praying with the violin” according to renowned violinmaker Amnon Weinstein.
In “7 Days in Entebbe,” which hits theaters on Friday, Daniel Bruhl plays a German leftist terrorist tortured by the fact that he’s hijacking a plane full of Jews and taking them prisoner.
On the surface, the indie comedy “Keep the Change” tells a conventional love story: A snooty rich boy meets a poor girl. They start dating, despite the objections of his parents, who assume that she’s a gold digger. The two argue. They part. Ultimately the snooty rich kid finds his better self.
“Arthur Miller: Writer,” a lovingly crafted documentary about the award-winning playwright set to air on HBO , doesn’t reveal a lot of new information. A good portion of the film involves Miller himself speaking from the audio version of his 1987 memoir, “Timebends: A Life.” And much has al…
Actor and director James Franco will direct and star in a film about children’s book author and poet Shel Silverstein.
It’s not every day that a Pepper Pike native gets recognized by the Hollywood press as one of the most powerful film producers in the business.
When the indie film “Blind” hit theaters in July, it wasn’t just its star, Alec Baldwin, who made headlines for his portrayal of a novelist blinded in a car crash.
Ahead of former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters’s Canadian tour in October, B’nai Brith Canada and award-winning filmmaker Ian Halperin will premiere a film exposing the anti-Israel rocker’s history of promoting anti-Semitism. “What motivated B’nai Brith to get involved [with screening the film] is the chance to promote awareness that the BDS movement is inherently anti-Semitic, and that its supporters, like Roger Waters, strengthen the campaign that seeks Israel’s destruction,” B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn told JNS.org.
