Southern New England Jewish Ledger
Israeli HR ‘Manager’ takes unexpected soul trip
Internationally recognized Israeli director Eran Riklis’s latest, “The Human Resources Manager,” is a movie with a willfully split personality. It…
Q & A with filmaker Stephen Z. Friedman
“Leap of Faith” tracks four personal paths from Christianity to Judaism.
Hartford Jewish Film Festival Schedule
March 26 – April 5. Presented by Mandell Jewish Community Center
with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. For tickets and information contact the Film Festival box office, (860) 231-6316 or visit www.hjff.org.
"The Round Up" revisits pain of French collaboration
“The Round Up” will screen at the Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival on Mar. 29. The screening will be followed by “Reel Talk” with survivor Nicole Szyrman Illouz.
Israeli TV journalist saves ‘Precious Life’
“Precious Life” will be screened twice at the Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival. Sunday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. & Friday, April 1, 1 p.m.
Conversation with… Al Rosen
All-Star Hitter makes a memorable appearance in “Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,” Peter Miller’s entertaining and unexpectedly thoughtful documentary about the relationship between the national pastime, an immigrant population and their assimilated sons and daughters.
‘Berlin 36’ is sports movie with a kick
The movie’s focus is German-Jewish high-jumper Gretel Bergmann, a strong-willed 20-year-old who, in another era, would have been feted and adored.
