Louisville Jewish Film Festival
‘Something for everyone:’ LJFF plans a partial return to cinema in ’22
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Despite the pandemic that has now lasted two years, the Louisville Jewish Film Festival (LJFF) is slowly reentering the cinema. Tricia Kling Siegwald, senior director of festivals & special projects at the Jewish Community of … Read More
Bornstein to retire from LJFF; Siegwald named successor
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor For the first time in 18 years, the Louisville Jewish Film Festival (LJFF) is about to change hands. Marsha Bornstein, director of the LJFF since 2005, has announced her retirement in November, but will assist … Read More
The new Amalek: Racism Black rabbi stops senseless deaths on Chicago streets
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor In every generation, according to tradition, Jews have come face to face with Amalek, an enemy first revealed to them in the wilderness during the Exodus. Jews believe that Amalek has taken many forms over … Read More
Virtual cinema: LJFF returns in February despite COVID
By Lee Chottiner Community Editor Pandemic or no pandemic, the 23rd Louisville Jewish Film Festival (LJFF) will happen in February as scheduled. But it won’t take place in a theater. Blame COVID-19. Because of the disease that has killed more … Read More
Picture This: Opening Night
Opening night for the 22nd Annual Louisville Jewish Film Festival was all about “tradition.” The program, which was held at Bellarmine University, featured the screening of “Fiddler: A MIracle of Miracles,” a documentary about the making of the classic musical … Read More
Speakers to address array of topics at 22nd Louisville Jewish Film Festival
Dani Menkin is fascinated by the human spirit. A noted Israeli filmmaker, he loves training his camera lens on people overcoming harsh circumstances, facing impossible odds, only to come out on the other side winners, or maybe just healed. It’s … Read More
Picture This: ladies at ‘Cakemaker’
Pomegranates and Lions of Judah women who went on JWRP Israel trips enjoyed a reception and screening of the film “The Cakemaker” on Thursday, Feb. 21, at the Speed Museum. “The Cakemaker” was part of this year’s Louisville Jewish Film … Read More
Kassow: Jews wrote to resist inside the Warsaw Ghetto
“Jews! Write everything down!” — Shimon Dubnov, Jewish historian, shouted before his execution in the Riga ghetto, December 1941 During the Holocaust, Eastern European Jews did write everything down. They wrote on anything from journals to toilet paper. They also … Read More
Holocaust themes top this year’s Film Festival
Yes, the 2019 Louisville Jewish Film Festival will screen a lot of Holocaust-themed pictures. Like most Jewish film festivals around the country, the selection committee for Louisville’s festival has plenty of movies, documentaries and short-subject films that deal with the … Read More