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  At Irwin Cohen's house each Hanukkah, you might find Spider-Man scaling an enormous menorah adorned by Maccabees, or Shrek sitting on the front sidewalk next to a sign wishing people a happy holiday. These are some of the fabulous...

Jewish and American Jews talk about the moral cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

American and Israeli Jews talk about Jewish identity and the nature of Israel as the promised land.

  Basic training jolted Binyamin Zemelman out of his comfort zone. He faced freezing cold weather, grueling work, and primitive living conditions. "I would picture all my friends back in college, sitting around eating pizza and listening...

The video talks about the inquisition still present in the 18th century. In Bologna Edgardo Mortara is taken from his Jewish family because they did not obey the church's laws. The office of the Inquisition claims that the child is no longer a jew...

Jewish LIfe in Cracow (disctrict of Kazimierz) in ca 1938/39 NOTE: This is a documentary film (a set of the mini-clips) was taken ca 1939 by some uncredited visitor to Kazimierz - being the part of prewar Cracow, mostly inhabited by traditional...

A Jewish army travels with its spirit. In this video, a Torah saved from the Holocaust is dedicated to the Israel Defense Forces.

If you think your room is a mess, you should have seen the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In 165 B.C.E., the Maccabees returned there after claiming victory over King Antiochus and the Syrian Greeks. They found the altar polluted, the holy vessels...

  When he was 20 years old, Steven Spielberg bluffed his way into Universal Pictures studios by dressing up in a business suit and carrying an empty briefcase past an unsuspecting guard. He settled into an abandoned office and spent the summer...