February 2014 Events at Leo Baeck Institute

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 5, 2014 Art, Books, Movies, Music

February 2014 Events at Leo Baeck Institute

Join us in February for a diverse lineup of programs that will explore how German-Jewish immigrants helped build San Francisco, the role of Rabbis in the German Army in WWI, and much more. Unless otherwise noted, please register in advance at (212) 744-6400. The most current list of events is always online at lbi.org/events.

Thursday, February 6, 2014, 6:30 PM | Panel Discussion
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What To Do About Woody Allen?

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 4, 2014 General News, Movies

Click Here to Read: What To Do About Woody Allen? By Ezra Glinter on the Arty Semite website on February 3, 2014.
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The Invisible Woman: Moralizing about Charles Dickens

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 31, 2014 Books, Movies

Click Here to Read: The Invisible Woman: Moralizing about Charles Dickens By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Website on January 31, 2014.

The Invisible Woman

That’s a Family Documentary

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 29, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: That’s a Family! Film Review on the Groundspark website.

Click Here to View: The Trailer for this movie.

Tickets to Monuments Men

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 27, 2014 Movies

Click Here To Win: Free Tickets.

Watch Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary Suppressed by the British

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 27, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: Watch Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary Suppressed by the British in Jewish Press on January 12th, 2014.

Screen shot from the original Hitchcock documentary.

Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary ‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 20, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary ‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released By Ben Child in The Guardian on January 10, 2014.

The ‘disturbing’ film, made in 1945 and withheld, was restored by the Imperial War Museum

Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 8, 2014 Books, Movies

Click Here to Read: Media Book Review of: Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film, by Agniezka Piotrowska, Reviewed by Amy Hardie on the Allmedia Scotland website.

8 Films That Forever Changed Sex As We Know It (NSFW)

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 7, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: 8 Films That Forever Changed Sex As We Know It (NSFW) By Priscilla Frank in The Huffington Post on January 06, 2014.

Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice: “About wife-swapping and swinger culture. This is one of the series’ tamer films.”

The Therapist Who Stars With Allen

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 4, 2014 Movies

Click Here to Read: The Therapist Who Stars With Allen Psychoanalyst Martin Bergmann Plays A Tortured Professor In “Crimes And Misdemeanors.” Though Not An Actor, He Helped Shape His Role – And The Movie.By Michael Bamberger, In the Philadelphia Inquirer on December 12, 1989.