Rabbi Ruth Adar is a rabbi and storyteller living in the Bay Area of California. She develops this list as a resource for her class at Lehrhaus Judaica in Berkeley, CA, Introduction to the Jewish Experience.
Rabbi Adar is also known as the Coffee Shop Rabbi, offering classes and storytelling for very small groups in the East Bay Area of California. She is a graduate of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, the University of Chicago Divinity School, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
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I would love to see you review Lost in Yonkers. I just stumbled upon it and before I rent it I wanted to read a review. Thanks for considering this film.
Dawn, I will add Lost in Yonkers to the list of films and take a look at it as soon as possible. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hi there,
We just released a feature documentary that is being distributed by Indiepixfilms on the life of Jewish inventor David Klein-the forgotten founder of Jelly Belly jelly beans…Its an amazing true story that has to be seen to be believed…It is the Social Network with candy…we were just written up in USA Today…we’d love for you to review the film…This film really is stranger than fiction
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2011/02/candyman-spills-the-beans-on-an-inventors-life/1
Candyman the David Klein Story is directed by Costa Botes(Forgotten Silver) and exec produced by Eddie Schmidt(This film is not yet rated)
website and trailer is at http://www.candymanfilm.com
Bert Klein
Producer
Candyman:The David Klein Story
Thank you, Bert, I look forward to watching the film!
I am a writer and editor specializing in Jewish History.
I am also an American Film Institute graduate.
I am working on a list of *modern* anti-Semitic films,
movies which portray Jews in a highly negative,
stereotypical, or fraudulent way.
An example of a modern anti-Semitic film would be
“The Doctor” (1991), which was based on the autobiography
of a very Jewish doctor, but the film character was turned
into a gentile who was forced to confront a fictitious and
highly stereotypic Jewish villain.
Would you care to tell me your choices?
Stan Brin
Stan, good question. I think that An Education has a very ugly set of stereotypes in it, although I understand that the filmmakers insisted that was not their intent.
I’d be very interested in seeing your list!
First off I just want to say that your blog is fantastic. I appreciate what you are doing over here.
I write to you because I am involved with a movie called “Saving Lincoln.” It tells Lincoln’s story through the eyes of Lincoln’s body guard and confidant, Ward Hill Lamon. The movie is Directed by Salvador Litvak, who is Jewish. He invented a filming process called CineCollage in order to make the movie on an indie budget. The movie has a tentative release date for Lincoln’s birthday this coming February.
I would really appreciate it if you took a look at our teaser trailer http://www.savinglincoln.com/
I would love to hear any comments you may have. I hope all is well, and keep up the great work!
Thank you for the kind words, drewhousman – I will take a look at that trailer!