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Be an Agent of Change

Introducing the new Agents of Change Film Fund, an expansion of the Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film! Past Film Fund grantees include Sandi DuBowski for Trembling before G-D, Yoav Potash for Crime after Crime, Sarah and Emily Kunstler for Disturbing the Universe, and dozens of other critically-acclaimed filmmakers who have won prizes at Sundance, Tribeca, and other festivals, before going on to theaters worldwide. With your help, we can continue selecting the best films that enthrall audiences, start conversations, and catalyze social change. Read more.

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Where’s ‘Wally’?

May 15, 2012

Reprinted from The Forward –Foundation for Jewish Culture board member Tom Freudenheim on the new film Portrait of Wally, which tracks the (sometimes murky) history of the 1912 Egon Schiele painting of his mistress, Walburga (“Wally”) Neuzil. Sometime in the mid-1990s I was asked by a Jewish arts organization to arrange an art trip to [...]Read more »

In the News

Great reviews for Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment in The New York Times, Variety, Slant, NPR, the Village Voice, and the Christian Science Monitor.
The American Academy in Jerusalem is in Da’at Travel, The Jewish Week, The Jerusalem Post, JTNews (Washington), Maariv, Haaretz, and Bloomberg.
The Law in These Parts in Haaretz, Variety, the Chicago Tribune, New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and JTA.
Crime After Crime‘s Yoav Potash published in the Wall Street Journal, interviewed on MSNBC NewsNation, and a segment of the film aired on the PBS News Hour.

Be an Agent of Change

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