The JCC Film Fest will celebrate the recent restoration of a movie house in Miamisburg dating to 1919 when it presents its opening-night film, Once in a Lifetime, at the Historic Plaza Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5. One hour before the screening, the Film Fest will host

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The marvelously claustrophobic and deeply damning Israeli courtroom drama Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem actually consists of three trials. Seeking a divorce after some 30 years, Viviane aims to cast her husband Elisha as the defendant. However, the

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Exceptionally intelligent and resourceful, and supported by a loving middle-class family, the young protagonist of A Borrowed Identity has a wide-open future. He does have one handicap, though, that will block his ascent into the upper echelons of Israeli

Film Review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The recent history between Jews and African-Americans, from the Crown Heights riot of 1991 through the dustup between Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders last summer, is strewn with misunderstandings. One has to go back half a century to

By Marc Katz, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Hardly lost in a film of drama, love and a mostly Jewish football (soccer) team that beat a German team — despite the harshest of consequences — is the Nazi elimination of more than 7,000 Macedonian Jews during World War II.

Film review by Michael Fox, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer Depending on your perspective and politics, Moriah Films’ adaptation of The Prime Ministers is a pride-inducing tour of the first three decades of Israel’s existence or a stunningly blinkered view of ancient events That’s the nature of oral history: