This moving film illustrates the quote by Dr. Stephen Shore: “When you’ve met one individual with autism, you’ve met one individual with autism.”
In honor of Noa Argamani reuniting with her mother Liora, who is dying of cancer, this week is a good time to enjoy mother-daughter movies.
Usually, whether I like a movie or not, I can understand why the director wanted to make it, but here the reasoning eluded me.
The story of “Treasure” will be familiar to many Ashkenazi Jews who have either made such journeys, which delved into genealogical research.
The festival, programmed in collaboration with the English department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU), begins on June 9 and continues throughout the month.
As I watched the movie, my loyalties kept shifting among the characters, and I wasn’t always sure where it was going – one of the highest compliments I can give any movie.
The film includes handwritten letters from her mother written during the Holocaust and footage of von Furstenberg as she visits the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Brussels.
Fittingly, one of the movies will be the documentary #Nova, about the October 7 massacre at the music festival in Re’im.
The infamous Home Alone house at 671 Lincoln Ave. in Winnetka, Illinois, a nostalgic piece of classic Christmas history, has hit the market for the first time in more than a decade.