By Maria Esteves – April 12, 2012   Why was this night different from all other nights? Jews and Spaniards celebrated the historical launch of “The Ultimate Digital Haggadah” with Sephardic Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel of Shearith Israel at the Spanish Benevolent Society, New York, Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 6:30PM. A live performance by Sephardic recording artist Gerard Edery preceded the first interactive Sephardic Passover Seder sponsored by Ladino Tapas Bar & Grill. ...

  Leo Khasin, director of Kaddish for a Friend Kaddish for a Friend,the debut film of director Leo Khasin, and Beating Time, a documentary about the struggle to overcome ALS, won The 23rd Boston Jewish Film Festival's Audience Awards for Best Feature and Best Documentary films respectively. "I had ...

Kaddish for a Friend, the debut film of director Leo Khasin, and Beating Time, a documentary about the struggle to overcome ALS, were the winners of The 23rd Boston Jewish Film Festival’s Audience Awards for Best Feature and Best Documentary films respectively. “I feel very honored to win this year's Audience Award at the Boston Jewish Film Festival,” said Khasin. “I had the chance to be here in Boston and be part of a wonderful vivid, receptive and, at the same time, profound audience. ...

Tamar, 35, a beautiful young woman, lives alone with her two daughters. She can't restrain her sexual appetite and gives herself to several men of the village. Shai, a young veterinary, just moved in the region and soon falls under the spell of Tamar. They quickly become lovers but will Tamar be satisfied with only one partner? This film is showing at the Miramar and has received many mixed reviews!!! It is definitely on of the Critics Week Film Shockers ...

Synopsis Sandi DuBowski's documentary Trembling before G-D is about gays and Lesbians who are either Orthodox or Hasidic Jews. And while there is no shortage of documentaries about gay and lesbian human beings in all sorts of situations and communities, not many of them are as nervy or as revealing as this one. DirectorSandi Simcha DuBowski (Director, Producer) is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. DuBowski is a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation's 1999 Film/Video/Multime...