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U.S. envoy to Libya killed over anti-Muslim movie
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2012
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American diplomats were killed, and the U.S. embassy in Cairo was attacked over an anti-Muslim movie.
‘Catch A Fire’ ignites filmmaker’s memories of anti-apartheid dad
Naomi Pfefferman
October 26, 2006
Shawn Slovo remembers how her Jewish parents, African National Congress activists, left home in the middle of the night to attend secret meetings. All the while, she said, she resented \”having to share my parents with a cause much greater than myself.\”\n\n
Caouette’s Journey to Hell and Back
Naomi Pfefferman
October 14, 2004
When gay Jewish filmmaker Jonathan Caouette was a preteen in Houston, he frequented sock hops at the Baptist church near his home. Invariably, church elders warned he was destined for hellfire: \”And I would tell them that I was possessed by the devil,\” Caouette, 31, said
Roasting Woody Allen — Gently
Naomi Pfefferman
September 16, 2004
One could call \”Who Killed Woody Allen?\” a \”benign revenge comedy.\” Co-authors Tom Dunn, Dan Callahan and Brendan Connor wrote the whodunit after Allen allegedly withdrew the rights to his play, \”Death,\” from their theater company in 2001.
Stalin’s Jewish State
Naomi Pfefferman
February 27, 2003
When Yale Strom was growing up in a traditional, socialist-Zionist home in Detroit, he was riveted by his father\’s tales of a Jewish state founded 20 years before Israel in a Siberian swamp.
Funny ‘Guys’
Naomi Pfefferman
August 29, 2002
\nIn between schmoozing with kids for his acclaimed Fairfax High documentary \”Senior Year\” in 1998, filmmaker David Zeiger hung out with the funny old guys who did lunch with his dad on Tuesdays at the Mulholland Tennis Club.
Fade to Black
Naomi Pfefferman
April 4, 2002
Two Jewish pioneers of the popular culture, comedian Milton Berle and director Billy Wilder, died last week in Los Angeles.
Catch a Rising Star
Gail Zimmerman
August 23, 2001
Elizabeth Berkley\’s audition with filmmaker Woody Allen for a part in his latest comedy, "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion," resembled a scene out of an "I Love Lucy" episode.
Unveiling Secrets
Naomi Pfefferman
June 28, 2001
Filmmaker Pola Rapaport grew up in a family of secrets.\n\nHer psychiatrist father never spoke of his life before meeting Pola\’s mother. He never spoke of his family. He never mentioned that he was Jewish, though Pola figured that out when he took her to Yom Kippur services when she was 10. And just before he died of cancer in 1972 — Pola was then 16 — his last words to his wife were, \”Be discreet.\”
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