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By EDWARD RUBIN Ever since COVID-19 shut down our theaters, movie houses, museums, concert halls, opera houses, jazz clubs, and stadiums – in short, our country’s entire entertainment industry – there has been a marked increase in entertainment offerings on TV, cable and online through blogs, websites and streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Disney+. […]
By ALAN SMASON There is a minor, but pivotal moment in Marcus H. Rosenmüeller’s film “The Keeper” where a rabbi makes a major and dramatic declaration. Based on the real life story of Bert (Bernd) Trautmann, the film recounts how Rabbi Alexander Altmann, a noted, former German-Jewish scholar who had fled the Nazis, advocates his […]
By SCOTT BENNETT “Married to Math” is a film made as if it were a mathematical equation with unknown expressions of value being moved towards a solution. Created by Nina Zaretskaya, this documentary presents three mathematicians from the former Soviet Union who released the artistic expression of their youth after the distraction of their training […]