Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem

Monday, 24 August 2009, 0:21 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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This report made me think how odd it is that I know about women having to have their hair covered and all that in certain Muslim communities and yet I never realized the same was true for some Jewish communities…

Po-Lin aka the Poland that doesn’t exist anymore

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Po-lin. Okruchy pamieci (Germany/Poland, 2008)
Seen: Wednesday, 1st April 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 82′
Director: Jolanta Dylewska
Narrator: Piotr Fronczewski
Production House: A Jour Film, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien (BKM), Bomedia, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, PISF
Plot: A documentary about Poland’s Jewish community in the 1930s.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
The informative value of this film is huge and I [...]

Arieh Czeislah and his Bar Mitzvah

A very nice story about the life of a 79 year old Auschwitz survivor.