The segment begins with host Jimmy Smits providing a quick overview of a familiar litany of problems besetting Los Angeles. There are traffic-choked interchanges, vast tracts of unchecked development, a trickle of water to slake a thirsty city and brownish air.
PBS \’Resurgence\’ documentary explores reappearance of anti-Semitism.\n
It\’s little more than a week to the airdate, March 28, and Ofra Bikel is still putting the final touches on her hourlong documentary, \”Israel: The Unexpected Candidate.\”\nThat\’s not like Bikel, a meticulous professional, described by critic Howard Rosenberg in the Los Angeles Times as \”one of television\’s premier documentary filmmakers … whose camera wields the power to mobilize public opinion through exposure.\”\n\”Usually, I take seven to eight months to make a documentary, but in this case I had only six weeks,\” Bikel said in an hourlong phone call from Tel Aviv, her speech a medley of Israeli, French and American accents.
It began by happenstance. CNN reporter Steve Emerson was stuck in Oklahoma City on Christmas 1992 with nothing to do and wandered by the city\’s convention center, where a gathering of the Muslim Arab Youth Association was taking place.
There is a haunting image in the early part of the PBS \”Frontline\” documentary on Pope John Paul II. As the Warsaw ghetto goes up in flames, just outside the wall and within sight and sound of the remaining Jewish resistance fighters, a carousel goes round and round, full of carefree, frolicking, young Poles
Among Jews, the subject of black-Jewish relations inevitably brings to the surface two impassioned, if not unrelated sentiments: a liberal nostalgia for the integrated social activism of days gone by and an embittered cataloguing of the latest anti-Semitic soundbites to come out of the mouths of black leaders.
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