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The Washington Jewish Film Festival (WJFF), in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's oldest and largest Jewish film festivals.Focusing on Jewish and Israeli issues, the festival has shown hundreds of films ranging both in genre and theme and held in the Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater in the Washington DC Jewish Community Center and other cinemas in Washington and suburban Maryland and Virginia.
Danny A. Abeckaser is directing and starring in a new World War II drama, “Bardejov” from a screenplay by Shmuel Lynn. It has already been picked up by Gravitas Ventures for North American ...
In March 2006, the Bardejov Jewish Preservation Committee was founded as a non-profit organization by Emil Fish, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who was born in Bardejov. [11] In July 2005, Mr. Fish returned to Bardejov with his wife and son for the first time since 1949.
Bardejov is a 2024 American historical war film written by Shmuel Lynn, directed by Danny A. Abeckaser and starring Robert Davi and Abeckaser.. Based on a true story, Bardejov reveals the daring plan devised by Rafuel Lowy (played by Robert Davi), a successful wine-maker and community leader, to save the young women of Bardejov from being included in the first official Jewish transport to ...
In 1925, DC's various Jewish charities merged to form the Jewish Welfare Association. In 1939, when United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was formed from the merger of United Palestine Appeal and the fundraising wing of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Welfare Association became the DC headquarters of the UJA.
Jakob Garfein [1] (July 2, 1930 – December 30, 2019) was an American film and theatre director, acting teacher, and a key figure of the Actors Studio.. Growing up in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia during the rise of Nazism, [2] Garfein was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 13 and survived 11 concentration camps.
Aug. 25—Bob Sanders, a Jewish anti-war activist, goes the distance for the causes he believes in. On Saturday the 68-year-old Concord resident set out to pedal 650 miles through 10 eastern ...
At least one pro-Palestinian group, the Washington chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, has asked its supporters on Instagram "not to engage" with Tuesday's pro-Israel event.