Movies – Chai There!

EJFF continues this week with more films and activities

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(AJNews) – The Edmonton Jewish Film Festival started on May 3 and has enjoyed wonderful community participation and great reviews of the three films that have screened to date. This coming week will showcase some of the […]

Chai There! Podcast Episode 1 – Bar Lavy, Edmonton Jewish Film Festival Coordinator

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Shalom and welcome to the first episode of the Chai There! Podcast Chai There! is a culturally Jewish Podcast powered by AJN Hosts Addison Borhaven and David Sklar and their guests discuss cultural aspects of […]

The Parents in Sadie Sandler’s ‘Roommates’ Remind Me of My Own Jewish Parents

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By Avital Dayanim (Hey Alma) – This past weekend, my roommate and I settled into our couch to take part in what has become a customary 45–minute, typically fruitless scroll through Netflix. After a mad search […]

A lost film by Israeli B-movie director Sam Firstenberg gets a new life

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By Stephen Silver (JTA) – Sam Firstenberg, the Israeli-raised director behind cult B-movie staples like “American Ninja” and “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,” is getting an unexpected career revival — thanks to one of his most overlooked […]

In ‘Yes!,’ Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers his country’s ‘moral abyss’ after Oct. 7

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By Andrew Lapin (JTA) In November 2023, as much of the Jewish world was still reeling from the Oct. 7 attack, a newly formed Israeli organization called The Civil Front released a hair-raising video. The short film […]