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Films: Documentary captures young Orthodox boxer’s journey

Saul Austerlitz April 11, 2008

The era of Jewish boxers — tough guys from the ghettos, like Benny Leonard and Barney Ross — is over. For that matter, the era of boxing itself, once king of all American sports, has passed, as well. In that regard, Dmitriy Salita is doubly a throwback, being both Jewish and a boxer, with an added twist: As a practicing Orthodox Jew, he does not fight on the Sabbath. What normally might be a potentially fatal limitation for a boxer (many fights are scheduled for weekend nights) has proved to be a public relations bonanza for this undefeated junior welterweight, now the star of Jason Hutt\’s documentary film, \”Orthodox Stance,\” opening April 11 in Los Angeles.

How Tinseltown shaped the world’s view of the Holocaust

Tom Tugend April 3, 2008

Hollywood movies and television have shaped the way most of the world perceives the Final Solution, narrator Gene Hackman observes at the beginning of \”Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust.\” It is a statement that may not sit too well with generations of historians and authors, but the evidence validates the conclusion.

Films: Director examines healing from surgery, grief

Robert David Jaffee March 8, 2008

Seated at his office in Beverly Hills, Ben Mittleman, 57, doesn\’t have a trace of gray in his sandy-brown hair. He says his mother used to kid him that he must have had a \”facelift or something,\” but despite the fact that this veteran TV actor turned director-producer looks 10 years younger than his age, he underwent heart surgery in 2001. That experience is the subject of \”Dying to Live,\” along with his response to the cancers that later took the lives of both his mother and his wife, Valerie. The film premieres Thursday, March 13, at Laemmle\’s Music Hall, where it will screen for two weeks.

How the West was funny

Tom Tugend February 15, 2008

We haven\’t kept up with Ari Sandel since the nice Jewish boy from Calabasas came out of nowhere last year to win an Oscar for his hilarious short film \”West Bank Story.\” His second venture, \”Vince Vaughn\’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland,\” has opened to excellent reviews and is now playing in general release.

Film shows Down syndrome no obstacle to prayer

Rebecca Wolfson February 8, 2008

Lior Liebling davens everywhere: in the backyard, in school and on the swing set. Some congregants at his synagogue, Mishkan Shalom of Mount Arie, Pa., call him the \”little rebbe.\”

\”The Zohar tells stories of miracle children who were spiritual geniuses,\” one synagogue member said. \”Well, that\’s what Lior is.\”

Lior is the 13-year-old featured in the new documentary, \”Praying With Lior,\” which highlights the bar mitzvah of a Jewish child living with Down syndrome. The character study of this boy tells of how Lior\’s community successfully integrates him into communal life — a challenge many Jewish communities face with mentally and physically disabled members.

PBS documents struggles and successes of U.S. Jewry

Tom Tugend January 4, 2008

Jewish life in North America was nearly aborted before birth when the governor of New Amsterdam sought to expel 23 Brazilian Jews, who landed at the southern tip of Manhattan in 1654.\n\nIn a petition to his superiors at the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant urged \”that this deceitful race… be not allowed to further infest and trouble the new colony.\”

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