“I didn’t want to cancel the festival, but the price that we were being asked to pay was too high,” the owner of Cinemes Girona wrote in a letter to festival organizers.
Moshe Pesach Geller, a Bronx-born teacher who spread the gospel of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia with nearly equal fervor, died in Israel on Feb. 12.