Jewish Studies

Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries

Through film excerpts of Hollywood's most important Holocaust movies this documentary tells the story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany.

The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights

The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities

How did we come to this moment, where free speech issues have never felt more complicated and urgent, and where the nation is wondering a new: what price are we willing to pay for free speech?

In HOUSEWITZ, daughter and filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk tries to find out the reason behind her mother’s categorically refusal to leave her house.

The Lost Key, an award-winning film featured on Netflix, reveals lost teachings to turn a sexual relationship into a healthy, spiritual experience where two people become One.

A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story.

 How can life go on after the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald? Four Holocaust survivors talk about their lives afterwards.

The tale of a century-old rivalry between two progressive Jewish summer camps and their attempt at a newfound alliance, inspiring unity within today’s divided world.

When the living disregard those buried below, their ghosts wage war against this indifference.

Discovery of their Jewish roots threatens the communal life of the family in Brazil.

"Yerusalem" is a personal stories of people who took part in these events, and through them, bring to the screen an up to date view along with its hardships and hopes

A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time

Rabin, the quintessential Israeli fighter, what drove him to turn diplomacy, to politics to the post of Prime Minister? Until Israeli militarism nurtured, among others, by Rabin, turned against him: he was assassinated by a Jewish fanatic

“Rocking the boat is his favorite tactic, to sway it sufficiently for the helmsman to lose his grip” Moshe Dayan an enigma- a warrior, a farmer, a man of the world? A non conformist who defied norms and conventions

I hope to be remembered as someone who prevented civil war- this is more important than having been the supreme commander of the underground movement, prime minister or the peace treaty with Egypt. Begin in his own words

Sharon incorporated reliance on naked, brutal power when dealing with the Palestinians. Deviant in his tactics, he has changed the map of Israel almost to the point of no return. Until he too became a victim of his own manipulations

The Inner Tour is a sightseeing tour of the State of Israel of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. Tourists in their homeland. The windows of the bus serve as a two-way mirror at the Palestinian tourists, at Israeli society

The ultimate Jewish Mother, Golda Meir, turned out to be the Israeli Iron Lady, neither more civilian nor more feminine in her decisions than her male counterparts. She continued the power politics of Israeli leaders and personified Israel’s unyielding stand

Itzhak Rabin was assassinated in the middle of his groundbreaking peace initiative, by a political opponent. This is an authentic documentation of the immediate reactions of grief in Israel, before grasping that the course of history was forever changed

A touching story from the midst of the Israel-Palestine conflict