In 1941, a Jewish attorney becomes a reluctant Civil Rights hero when he teams up with a NAACP lawyer to defend an innocent man, in the new film “Marshall.” Based on a true story, this inspiring, entertaining, surprisingly funny film features Josh...

We all know that attempts were made to assassinate Adolf Hitler in Germany late during World War II. But what if he had been assassinated in November 1939? Think how history would have changed, particularly for Jews.Such an assassination attempt actually...

Charming and warm, the Israeli comedy “The Women’s Balcony” entertains but also captures an appealing feeling of community –  and even family – that being part of a religious congregation can bring. It is no small feat.That sense of a close,...

From the director of the Israeli drama “Fill The Void” comes a decidedly different take on Orthodox marriage in Israel, the romantic comedy “The Wedding Plan.” Funny and surprising, Rama Burshtein’s “The Wedding Plan” offers a clever twist...

In “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,” Richard Gere stars as Norman Oppenheimer, an aging New York deal-maker, or fixer, who is clearly past whatever glory days he may have had. A chance encounter with a low-level Israeli...

It is not often that a film gets its U.S. premiere in St. Louis, but that is the case for the award-winning “Judgment in Hungary.” This powerful courtroom-drama documentary spotlights the trial of four Hungarian men accused of the racially motivated...

“Denial” is a film adaption of Deborah Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.” In the late 1990s, British writer David Irving sued Jewish-American historian Lipstadt in British court for libel, for calling...

“The People vs. Fritz Bauer” opens with a short video of the real Fritz Bauer, a kindly looking white-haired old man talking about how German children should be taught all of their country’s history, good and bad. “The People vs. Fritz Bauer”...

Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman makes her feature-film directorial debut with “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” a Hebrew-language film adaptation of Israeli-writer Amos Oz’s best-selling autobiographical novel. Oz’s story focuses on his childhood...

“Anthropoid” sounds like the title of a science fiction movie but is in fact the title of a film about a secret World War II mission, code named “Operation Anthropoid,” to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking SS officer.Heydrich, nicknamed...

Philip Roth’s more than 30 novels have earned him every literary award except the Nobel Prize in Literature but have rarely served as the basis of successful films. “Goodbye Columbus” was a commercial success and entertaining, but  “Portnoy’s...

Dictionaries define “cafe society” as the world of socialites who regularly frequent cafes, nightclubs, resorts and other fashionable spots. The term originated in the mid- to late-1930s, according to the “Random House Dictionary,” which puts...