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Jewish Urban Fantasies

Urban Fantasies in Tel Aviv
By Amy Kronish  |  01/07/2010
Tel Aviv, known as "the city that never sleeps", has become a major metropolis of nightlife and yuppie culture. In recent years, a number of important films have reflected this secular culture

Sisters in Rebellion
By Raya Morag  |  01/07/2010
With an intimacy rare in documentary cinema, one based on partnership and sisterhood, Zuria depicts the tragedy of rebellion against violent and humiliating ultra-Orthodox familial relationships and the irresolvable feeling of being torn from the families that accepted only total submission, forced a fabricated mental ...

Blog - Again In Cracow
By Agata Peleszuk  |  01/07/2010
A worldwide known Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow celebrates this summer the 20th edition. The greatest encounter with Jewishness in Poland has evolved since 1988 when it took a form of a small scale event focused on cinematography and synagogal music. The history of Polish-Jewish dialogue, alike the festival, grew i...

Letter from London – A living Cretan synagogue revisited
By Antony Lerman  |  01/07/2010
The acrid smell of burnt and doused timber and books has gone, but when I visited the Etz Hayyim synagogue in Hania, Crete last weekend, five months after I was there surveying the awful damage from a second arson attack, images of the damaged ceiling, the blackened walls and the gutted offices came flooding back. And ...

Conversion on the dance floor - A weekly report by an Israeli in Berlin
By Amit Epstein  |  01/07/2010
The latest piece of news of last week was about a group of German-Jews which is about to send an aid ship to Gaza, breaking the iniquitous blockade – so they say –voicing out another Jewish tone. Jews for peace – wow – outrageous, who ever heard about something like that..?.

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