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Acclaimed filmmaker turns camera on his own Holocaust experience for ‘Frontline’

For decades, Marian Marzynski has won critical accolades for his films about the Holocaust and Polish Jewry. Now, in “Never Forget to Lie,” he tells his own story of childhood escape from the Warsaw Ghetto.

By Penny Schwartz March 7, 2013 8:01 pm

Is Homeland the answer to peace in the Middle East?

Is the fictional world of CIA agent Carrie Mathison and US-Marine-turned-Al-Qaeda operative Nicholas Brody the answer to the tension in the Middle East? Yes, according to Many Patinkin. The Jewish actor, better known as Saul Berenson, traveled to Canada this week to do press for the Showtime’s award-winning series, “Homeland,” which is based on an Israeli TV (but you […]

March 7, 2013 6:42 pm

First look at Woody Allen’s new film

Sony Pictures Classics released the first image of Woody Allen’s upcoming film, “Blue Jasmine.” As the 46th movie from the Jewish writer/director, the film is apparently a romantic comedy about “ the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife.” We don’t know much else about the film, since its Woody […]

March 7, 2013 6:04 pm

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Acclaimed filmmaker turns camera on his own Holocaust experience for ‘Frontline’

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