Culture

Which biblical character are you?

Are you more of a Moses or a Ruth? Take our personality quiz of biblical proportions to find out.

At Sundance, ‘The Settlers’ trains lens on movement’s extremist fringe

Filmmaker Shimon Dotan tells the story of the West Bank settlement enterprise through the eyes of its most radical supporters.

An Extraordinary But Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Explores the Nature of Cinema

The Little-Known Jewish Filmmaker Exploring the Nature of Film

Brooklyn-born avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs has been testing the boundaries of cinema for six decades. His first film “Orchard Street” (1956) portrays the vanishing Jewish immigrant population on the Lower East Side in 27 minutes. Meanwhile, “Star Spangled to Death” is seven hours of found footage that questions the mythology of America, begun in 1956 […]