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- They fled from Gaza to Egypt — will they ever find their way back home?The Voice of Hind Rajab, tracing the broken state of aid in Gaza, got a lot of attention at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion. Many of the festival’s political demonstrations were connected to the movie about a little girl’s death in Gaza, and its premiere stirred up a storm of... […]
- A new documentary shows what it looks like when Hasidic education failsA new documentary on the adequacy of secular education at New York’s yeshivas is debuting just four months after what its director called the “disastrous defeat” of state efforts to exercise oversight on the religious schools, which serve tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox children. Unorthodox Education begins a two-week run at Cinema Village in Manhattan... […]