Documentary celebrates last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor
Michael Fraiman interviews documentary filmmaker Barry Avrich about his latest film, Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz.
A modern Holocaust story brings terror to 2018
Michael Fraiman reviews Christian Petzold’s latest film, Transit.
A tale of two kindergarten teachers
Michael Fraiman compares the two versions of The Kindergarten Teacher.
A filmmaking collaboration bears freakish results
Michael Fraiman profiles Canadian filmmakers Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, whose movie Freaks will be playing at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The CJN’s top Jewish picks for TIFF 2018
Michael Fraiman recommends his top 7 Jewish picks playing at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Your Daily Spiel for August 30
U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, recently said that a rollout of the Trump administration’s peace plan for Israel is “not imminent.”; Natalie Portman and Timothée Chalamet are among the list of talent attending the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival; and the August 29 rally to oppose B’nai Brith’s “smear campaign” against the Canadian Union of Postal Workers drew about 75 pro-Palestinian protesters and some 200 members of the Jewish community.
Your Daily Spiel for August 24
FIFA has banned Jibril Rajoub from attending soccer games for a year; anti-semitic slogans were found on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia; and Drake will present the critically-acclaimed film Monsters and Men at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
Your Daily Spiel for August 23
President Donald Trump has named Samantha Ravich as the new deputy chairwoman of the intelligence advisory board; a new trailer for the Netflix film Outlaw King, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, has been released; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Lithuania ahead of the Baltic summit.
Your Daily Spiel for August 22
President Donald Trump warns that Israel will have to pay a “high price” in peace negotiations with the Palestinians; TIFF has added a second Natalie Portman film to its Special Presentations program; and work on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv will no longer be done on Shabbat.
Your Daily Spiel for August 17
The U.S. Consulate in Haifa will close in September; this Sunday, Filipino church congregants will honour Israel in Earl Bales Park; and the Israeli dark comedy, Stockholm will premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
