The Marvelous Jew

Larry Harlow talks salsa consciousness

"...A New York Jew with a thick Brooklyn accent, Larry Harlow is an..."

Oct. 7, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

What Jew Wanna Eat Blog Is Finalist in National Contest

DailyCandy.com picks Austin Finalist in Start Small, Go Big contest

"...attending Le Cordon Bleu, Amy Kritzer created the What Jew Wanna Eat blog and began teaching cooking classes, sharing..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

The Reich's Right-Hand Man

AFS Documentary Tour presents Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss

"...Joseph Süss Oppenheimer was a well-known historical figure, a Jew in the court of 18th century Württemberg, about whom..."

March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Homicide

"...in an internal struggle between his identity as a Jew, his identity as a cop, and his identity as..."

Nov. 1, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.

"...cordite-scented flash points of the world. That he’s a Jew only adds to the increasingly ludicrous setup, and so..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Glass Shield

In this often overlooked film by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), a black cop in an all-white police station confronts racism from his colleagues and incredulity from his family and community

"...the first female in this squad but the only Jew as well. (Problem: It's not like we can check..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

The man who would be kingmaker

"...is subsumed in this role as a New York Jew who wants nothing more than to be connected to..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Counterfeiters

Winner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film, this brisk Austrian film uncovers the moral choices faced by WWII concentration-camp victims selected to work on the Nazi effort to create bogus currency.

"...Foreign Film. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Markovics) is a Russian Jew in Germany before the Second World War who puts..."

April 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Aimée & Jaguar

"...constant fear of being found out, either as a Jew or, nearly as bad, as a lesbian. The film..."

Sept. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

To Dust

Two men and a pig become more than porcine comedy in this tender and cunning discussion of death

"...drama laced with grim humor, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew (Röhrig) obsesses about the rate at which his deceased..."

March 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Exception

WW II melodrama lacks a charismatic lead

"...grubbed down and steely in concealing she’s secretly a Jew. And Plummer, with his twinkle and bombast, is a..."

July 7, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ida

Concisely but with great depth, this Polish film explores questions of individual and national identity.

"...Anna’s real name is Ida and she is a Jew born to parents who were murdered during the Nazi..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Killing Kasztner

This documentary is about the little-remembered figure Rudolf Israel Kasztner, who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann for the release of 1,700 Jews from Hungary, only to later be castigated for Nazi collaboration.

"...into her documentary about Rudolf Israel Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who negotiated with Final Solution architect Adolf Eichmann for..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ajami

This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.

"...(a Palestinian living in Israel) and Shani (an Israeli Jew) add the weight of their own personally divergent backgrounds..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inglourious Basterds

In this World War II movie, Quentin Tarantino weaves together multiple storylines that coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history.

"...men, christened the “Basterds" by the Axis, are an all-Jewish squadron of bloodthirsty Nazi hunters whose most memorable member..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Heartbreak Kid

Ben Stiller stars in this smart and winning remake of a 1972 Neil Simon-penned comedy about a man who falls in love with another woman on his honeymoon.

"...hasty so often. The younger Stiller varies his hapless Jew schtick just enough to make Eddie a wholly believable..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saved!

Teen satire softly pokes at the hypocrisies of organized religion.

"...at their Baptist high school for being the lone Jew. Saved! has its most fun getting to know these..."

June 11, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Human Stain

Despite some terrific moments, Philip Roth's words fail to stick to the screen.

"...a well-respected classics professor – the headstrong, seventysomething, and Jewish Coleman Silk (Hopkins) – resigns in disgrace over charges..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Gospel of John

The last years of Jesus are presented with more realism than pageantry.

"...film is its depiction of Jesus as a devout Jew, whose outspokenness about the debasement of the Temple irritated..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Believer

"...a fiercely anti-Semitic neo-Nazi, and he is also a Jew. Unlike the blind rage of his skinhead colleagues, Danny's..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hollywood Ending

"...as another slight variation on the neurotic New Yawker Jew we know and love, and he floods the soundtrack..."

May 3, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Convent

"...is researching his theory that Shakespeare was a Sephardic Jew. His investigation leads him to a secluded convent library,..."

March 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Slingshot

"...Stockholm. His father's a socialist and his mother's a Jew and young Roland wonders what that combination makes him...."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dialogues With Madwomen

"...are a representative cross-section: straight and gay, Catholic and Jew, young and middle-aged, one Chinese-American and one African-American --..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Stranger Among Us

"...her credibility as she goes undercover as a Hasidic Jew? Goy in the Hood, anyone? Griffith plays a cowboy..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crossing the Line

"...couple years back starring Willem Dafoe about a Greek Jew at Auschwitz who boxes in order to stay out..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Potato Zucchini Kugel Cupcakes

Amy Kritzer puts trendy spin on one of Bubbe's traditional dishes

"...brunch or as a side dish. As a young Jew, you could make me pretty gosh darn happy by..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Food Post by Amy Kritzer

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...As a member of Austin's fast-growing Jewish population I found "The Light Is On, Is Anybody..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Perfect Liberty

To find themselves, the subjects of this year's rock docs found that they had to follow their own sound

"...onto Walkmans and answering machines under the name Silver Jews, Berman and Malkmus took rock music to new heights..."

March 9, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Whole Schmear

The First Annual Austin Jewish Film Festival

"...Texas has been host to Jewish communities since the 1840s, and Jewish settlers arrived as..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Maya Churi

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