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Sheldon Kirshner

Jun 17, 2026, 8:47 PM

Israel’s Next Leader

Israel's forthcoming general election is due to take place in September or October, and if the pollsters are correct Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fail to capture enough Knesset seats to cobble together yet another right-wing coalition. Public opinion surveys...

Jun 15, 2026, 6:35 PM

Beshert – A Review

Written by Gary Enkin Directed by Lewis Rose 2025 - 19 minutes Winner of the 2025 Pears Short Film Fund award, Beshert is a perfectly crafted 20-minute drama. Set in Leeds, Oliver Simon is approaching his bar mitzvah while having been set...

Jun 15, 2026, 6:21 PM

Shoulder-to-Shoulder with Israel’s Creatives

Boycotts will not heal Gaza; they will only silence the very artists still brave enough to build bridges The 43rd Jerusalem Film Festival is around the corner, and I find myself wishing, with unusual force, that I could be in...

Bruce D. Forman

Jun 14, 2026, 9:36 PM

Would It Frighten You? What Spielberg’s New Alien Film Gets Backwards

Steven Spielberg's new film, Disclosure Day, opened this past weekend, and every trailer for it circles back to the same question: if proof arrived tomorrow that humanity is not alone in the universe, would it terrify you? It's a good...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Jun 7, 2026, 12:57 AM

‘Post-Jewish Property’ and The Problem of the Returning Neighbor

In postwar Polish files, the phrase mienie pożydowskie gave officials a name for property left after the destruction of Jewish life. “Post-Jewish property” could mean a flat under municipal assignment, a workshop under state administration, a shop inventory, a...

Sheldon Kirshner

May 26, 2026, 7:18 PM

Inspired by a true story, Elena's War focuses on a Jewish heroine in fascist Italy. Scheduled to be screened at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which runs from June 4-14, Stefano Casertano's Italian movie revolves around Elena DiPorto (Micaela...

May 22, 2026, 9:29 AM

Senor EuroTrash, Your Flight Is Delayed: The High-Asset Dip Into Burnt Cheese

Picture blog reader the aromatic air in Terminal 2 at the Benito Juarez International Airport is thick with the scent of stale jet fuel and burnt chicory from a nearby franchise cafe. High above, exposed steel and trusses hold up...

May 20, 2026, 4:37 AM

Dial M for Metrics: The Capital Illusion of Wall Street’s MacGuffin

In Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic universe, a MacGuffin is an object, a secret, or a collection of papers that everyone on screen frantically chases, completely oblivious to the fact that its specific nature doesn't actually really matter to the real...

May 15, 2026, 7:36 AM

One Weapon, One Button, Zero Margin: Iran’s Project 110 and 1964’s ‘Fail-Safe’

In Sidney Lumet's 1964 masterpiece Fail-Safe, a single technical glitch–a tiny electronic component that fails at the worst possible moment– bypasses human command and sends Cold War-era American nuclear bombers on an irreversible mission to destroy Moscow. Decades after that...

May 13, 2026, 4:28 AM

The devil wears cleats

(AI)

Despite their TikTok attention spans, my adolescent sons were into the long-form drama about fashion, work, identity, and power - and I learned not to sell them short

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