I New York får Ronit at vide, at hendes far, den ortodokse jødiske rabbiner Krushka, er død. Chokeret rejser hun hjem til England. Men Ronit modtages ikke just med åbne arme af det stærkt religiøse samfund, hun forlod som ganske ung. Ronit kom i unåde, fordi hun forelskede sig i en anden ung jødisk kvinde, Esti, der nu er gift med deres barndomsven Dovid. Da hun atter møder Esti, flammer den gamle ild op igen.
Herschel Greenbaum er en betrængt arbejder, som immigrerer til Amerika i 1920 og drømmer om at skabe en bedre tilværelse for sin højt elskede familie. Men da han en dag arbejder på fabrikken, falder han i en beholder med saltlage og syltes i 100 år. Sammen med sin sidste efterkommer må han lære at begå sig i en helt ny verden.
En bevægende og lystfyldt komedie om sex og kærlighed. Fioravante lokkes til at prøve livet som gigolo og finder ud af, at der er værre måder at tjene penge på. Murray spiller hans uerfarne alfons, som finder kunder til Fioravante, og første job er to kontakthungrende veninder . Da Fioravante senere kommer i nærkontakt med den kyske jødisk-ortodokse enkefrue Avigal, vækkes noget i ham, og han finder noget, han ikke vidste, at han ledte efter.
Collegestuderende Danielle skal dække sine spor, når hun uventet løber ind i sin Sugar daddy ved en shiva - med sine forældre, ekskæreste og familievenner også til stede.
Flere år efter at hans barndomsven, et violin-vidunderbarn, forsvandt på tærsklen til hans første solokoncert, rejser en englænder gennem Europa for at finde ham.
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
Slovakia, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The family of the young Jewish Martin Friedmann gathers to celebrate his bar mitzvah and make a solemn promise that they will all meet again a year later around the same table; but the storms of war and anti-Semitic fanaticism will lead each of them down very different paths.
”Footnote” fortæller historien om den store konkurrence og interne rivalisering mellem en far og en søn. Begge er excentriske professorer, der har dedikeret livet til deres arbejde. Da den tilbageholdne far, Eliezer, indstilles til en stor pris for sit mangeårige arbejde, er han både overvældet og stolt, men tilfældet vil, at prisen i virkeligheden var tiltænkt hans fremadstræbende søn, Uriel. Miseren skyldes en yderst uheldig misforståelse, som ender med at få store konsekvenser for de implicerede. Uriel står splittet mellem stolthed og misundelse - vil han stikke en kæp i hjulet på sin fars store ære?
Three siblings attempt to reconcile over their mother's suicide, torn between mourning and greed.
Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
Da Maja møder Leah, en ung jødisk kvinde fra London, falder hun pladask for hende. Men da Leah pludselig bliver syg, beslutter Maja sig for at tage med Leah tilbage til hendes hjem i London. Leahs mor Chana er en dominant og hemmelighedsfuld kvinde, som er reserveret og skeptisk over for sin nye svigerdatter. Maja forsøger at gøre et godt indtryk, indtil hun begynder at indse, at der er noget helt galt...
The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot by Polish amateur filmmaker Alfons Ziółkowski in 1941.
Yasmine, an openly lesbian Arab nurse, finds out that her lover, Or, an intelligence officer in the Israeli army has been reporting on their relationship. Yasmine's sister arrives for a visit from the West Bank, not knowing that she is going to meet the occupying enemy at her own sister's house.
The 2016 Broadway Revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical. It tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a male lover during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City.
A tight-knit college friend group gathers for a dual 21st birthday celebration, only to have their intricately-woven dynamics unraveled by a surprising revelation during a drinking game
Picking up where "God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore" leaves off, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti's trilogy continues with "Welcome in Vienna"
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to deal with her stuff: 63 boxes of her parent's heirlooms overwhelming her office-turned-future-baby's room, the weight her mother had begged her to lose, and the reality of being a half century older than her daughter.
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.