You may know all about our film program – that The Law in These Parts just won the prestigious World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at Sundance, that Crime After Crime premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network and was subsequently optioned for a full-length motion picture drama, and more. Read More »

From grantee and filmmaker Sam Ball, at the reception celebrating the world premiere of his film Joann Sfar Draws From Memory (2010 recipient of the Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film) – photos after the jump: Filming Joann Sfar, we set out to portray an engaging character whose pen never stops drawing. Read More »

With several major Jewish and mainstream film festivals going on right now, there’s a lot of film news coming in – our film grantees are all over the place, and its great to see that audiences everywhere are appreciating their work as much as we do. Read More »

The brand-new Master’s program in Jewish Cultural Arts at George Washington University is now accepting applications! Under the leadership of Judaic Studies Program Director (and past recipient of a Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ) Jenna Read More »

The Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards: now in your living room! Shalom TV’s coverage is available online (video below) or on demand on your TV – instructions after the video.   To watch on TV: go to http://www.shalomtv.com and click on “Find Us” on the menu bar to find out the channel numbers on their cable system. Read More »

Filmmaker Yoav Potash (Crime After Crime) with Mrs. Potash and George Clooney at the National Board of Review Awards Some fun news – George Clooney has been connected to two of our documentary films! First, he was in the audience at the National Read More »

Come see our films! In addition to the constant stream of screenings at JCCs, synagogues, and other community centers around the country and abroad, there are a few especially important screenings that we’d like to feature. Read More »

From: http: //www.smithmag.net/jewish SMITH Magazine is teaming up with the Jewish cultural mavens of Reboot to bring you “Six Words on the Jewish Life. Read More »

All of us at the Foundation for Jewish Culture send our heartfelt condolences to the family of Adrienne Cooper and to the wonderful community that she brought together. Her contributions to the revival of Yiddish culture were formative and extraordinary, and we are proud to have been able to help support her in her work. Read More »

Interview with Urban Planning Fellow David Karnovsky at the American Academy in Jerusalem . Reprinted from Yedioth Ahronoth . Read More »

Choreographer Donald Byrd, writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem . Donald Byrd, Dance Fellow Saturday 12 November 2011 — Let me begin by saying I love Jerusalem. I love all its contradictions, political messiness, convergences and colliding of religions, cultures and ethnicities, as well as the resultant tensions. Read More »

David Herskovits Theatre Fellow David Herskovits blogging from the American Academy in Jerusalem. 2 December, 2011 — Rechov Yermiyahu 52 is nowhere. I mean really nowhere, as in nowhereseville, dark cold abandoned, get-out-of-the-cab-and-wonder-how-you-fell-for-it nowhere. Read More »

From Urban Fellow David Karnovsky at the American Academy in Jerusalem. David Karnovsky Jerusalem is littered with 19th and early 20th century buildings that are in various states of disuse and disrepair. Read More »

Program Officer for the Arts Andrew Ingall writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem . Andrew Ingall Sunday, November 20, 2011 – I joined David Karnovsky and architects Hannah Gribetz and Danna Margaliot to visit Hansen House, a former hospital for patients with Hansen’s Disease (leprosy). Read More »

Program Officer for the Arts Andrew Ingall writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem Andrew Ingall Thursday, November 17 — Day 2 of the Speaking Art Conference.  Art historian/curator Emily Bilski was so taken with Donald that she joined a group of observers at Donald’s dance workshop at Vertigo dance studio. Read More »

Program Officer for the Arts Andrew Ingall writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem Andrew Ingall Tuesday, November 15, 2011 — It’s a small world after all, and Israel is teeny tiny.  At the airport gate, I bumped into Rabbi Levi Kelman, of Congregation Kol Haneshama. I arranged for the Fellows to have dinner with his family on Friday night. Read More »

The last installment (for now) with choreographer Donald Byrd, writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem . Donald Byrd, Dance Fellow It has begun! The moment after I have begun to separate from my life at home and locate in a different place. It is like awaking from a dream.  It is my ‘traveler entity’ emerging. Read More »

Continuing with choreographer Donald Byrd, writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem . Donald Byrd, Dance Fellow On Saturday night I saw a dance piece called “Homesick” by the Israeli Jewish choreographer Iris Erez. Read More »

This is the first in a series of posts by choreographer Donald Byrd, writing from the American Academy in Jerusalem . Donald Byrd, Dance Fellow This place, Jerusalem, is a place of narratives. It is a place where voices battle to be heard. Here narratives contend and interpretations of those narratives challenge and compete. Read More »

The third installment in this series of posts from Fellow David Karnovsky at the American Academy in Jerusalem. Urban Planning Fellow David Karnovsky The last two days have provided some interesting food for thought  for a NYC land-use lawyer . Read More »