On CNN’s Believer with Reza Aslan tonight, Aslan heads to Jerusalem to immerse himself in the world of the Haredim and explore the tensions between this isolated group and secular Jews in Israel. This is personal for Aslan. In 1979 he fled Iran as his home country went from secular to oppressive and religiously run.
Presenting Princess Shaw, a stirring new documentary from Israel, is a modern digital fairytale about how the interconnected world of the internet can transform the lives of obscure but talented amateurs into international sensations when their videos suddenly go viral. The film, a Participant Media release, has just opened in select theaters. Magnolia Pictures is
Director Erez Laufer’s documentary is true to its title. The film tells Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s story through archival footage and descriptions by the man himself. It is a touching movie, a documentary of unusual force and intimacy. One cannot help but listen to the words in the context of his assassination by his
A real life spy thriller proving the truth is stranger than fiction. It is unusual, but not unheard of, for a young Palestinian to be recruited by Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence machine to provide inside information on Hamas. So there is little amazing in the 2010 ABC News story that Mosab Hassan Yousef , “The