Tag: ChaiFlicks
Kid Sister: When Jewish Humor, Family, Tradition and Modern Life Collide
There are television series that make you laugh, and then there are the ones that somehow make you laugh, remember, recognize, reflect and feel...
Challah Across Generations: Witnessing a Living Tradition
In 1975, Jane, then 34, films her grandmother, Ida Rosen—a young 97—standing in her kitchen preparing challah for Shabbos. It is remarkable to see...
Mashhad: A Melancholy Mystery
A short film that pivotally impacts the body as much as the mind, Mashhad, directed by Sarah Solemani, moves through the political realities of...
Tightroping on the Shoelace of Survival: Nyosha
The film opens with the voice of Holocaust survivor Nomi Kapel, speaking in Hebrew as subtitles display her recorded testimony across the screen. Her...
Paper Bodies, Blue Sky: Witnessing *Survivor*
By Tobe Pilato
(The Hollywood Times) 2/23/26 - As the great-granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor from Poland, I grew up inside the mandate to never forget....