NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR VIDEO    COLLECTION

These are the recent additions to our collection

 

Children's Videos
Joseph: Coat of Dreams  A delightful animated full-length film about the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers.

Comedy
Keeping the Faith  Ben Stiller stars as a very contemporary rabbi in this tale of romance in a multicultural society.

Holocaust
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of Kindertransport  The compelling stories of children sent from Nazi-controlled European countries to safety in England.

Korczak  Masterful drama of Jewish pediatrician Janusz Korczak and the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage he directed, by distinguished Polish filmmaker Andrej Wajda.

International
Solomon and Gaenor  Beautiful and poignant feature about a young Jewish man and the Welsh woman he loves, against a backdrop of labor unrest and anti-Semitism in the mining country of Wales.

A Trial in Prague  Gripping documentary about the show trial of leading communists, most of them Jews, in postwar Czechoslovakia. 

Lies My Father Told Me A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work

Israel
As if Nothing Happened  The perils and anxieties of life in Israel are the focus of this riveting drama about a soldier and the family that waits for word of his fate.  

Impossible Spy A young Mossad agent, on his last mission to warn Israel of an impending attack on a kibbutz is caught by Syria.

Kippur  The Yom Kippur War is the setting for this powerful feature by noted Israeli director Amos Gitai.  

Jewish Experience in America
From Swastika to Jim Crow  The remarkable journey of Jewish professors who escaped Nazi Germany and wound up teaching in segregated black colleges of the Deep South, where many became mentors to their students and got involved in the civil rights movement.  

The Chosen  Two Jewish teenagers in 1940s New York meet as playground rivals and become friends but must come to grips with the sharp differences between one's ultra Orthodoxy and the other's Modern Orthodox Judaism.

The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg  Popular, inspiring documentary about Hank Greenberg, the great Detroit Tiger's first baseman.