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December 14, 2007

Watch The Dray Dells online

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The incredible performance of the Dray Dells on Hanukkah at Beth Israel was captured on video.

You can watch their live performance by clicking on this link: http://www.vimeo.com/thedraydells

August 20, 2006

World Trade Center film

After reading the following review in World Magazine (www.worldmag.com), we went to see the film "World Trade Center." I think it was a movie that surprisingly portrays faithful marriage, love for God, and love for our fellow man. I recommend that you see it with some close friends, and focus on the way that love and faith are presented.
Shalom,
Rabbi David
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Oliver's twist

World Trade Center is sober, inspiring—and nothing like anything Oliver Stone has made before | Andrew Coffin

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, some disturbing images and language) is bizarre and shocking, but for none of the anticipated reasons. The film can be described using a long list of adjectives never before associated with an Oliver Stone film: sober, inspiring, patriotic, uncynical, rousing, hopeful, sincere—even devout.

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May 02, 2006

Ushpizin, the movie

I highly recommend the recent Israeli film, Ushpizin (Now available on DVD for rental or purchase). It's a marvelous comedy about Sukkoth told through the life of a modern Hasidic Jew in Israel. The scene on breakthrough prayer is fantastic.