A comic film about an Orthodox superhero won a prize at the Berlin Jewish Film Festival. In “The Hebrew Hammer,” written and directed by 28-year-old Los Angeles native Jonathan Kesselman, the hero and his cool black buddy, Mohammed, stop a mean Santa from destroying Chanukah.
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