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Alan Zeitlin

Alan Zeitlin is a writer whose articles have appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Jewish Press, The Forward and other publications. He is based in New York and hosts the “Film Fury” podcast.

“Hopefully, this will go viral, so many can see the exposure of bias exposed that is going on,” said Sami Steigmann, who will turn 86 in a few weeks.
In a new documentary on the life of Christopher Reeve, Dr. Steven Kirshblum talks tells JNS that the actor surprised him once by showing up at his shul.
“We can’t ignore the tragedy because God is not absent from the universe. As it says in Psalms, ‘The guardian of Israel does not slumber or sleep,’” says Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia.
Assaf Lowengart, who played for Team Israel in the Olympics, thrilled fans in his first week with the independent league team.
“I couldn’t stop thinking about it as a young man,” says Joe Berlinger of World War II and the Holocaust. “Had I been born back then, I clearly would have been murdered. I couldn’t believe that people could do that to each other.”
“We live in a world of conspiracy and denial, and we have to fight it by making films such as ours,” says Daniela Völker, who wrote, produced and directed a film about Rudolf Höss.
As to why there seems to be a flurry of Holocaust films out right now, one director said it may be due to a delay from the COVID pandemic when some held their projects back.
“The joke was that maybe the guy who got my kidney would become a good singer,” Yitzy Spinner told JNS.
A husband and father, Gabriel Boxer told JNS that he didn’t sleep much a few nights before his stint in the Gaza Strip.