Recommended movies (and suggested reading)


   Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder
   Morah Yehudis Fishman
   Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman


These movies are recommended by Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder :

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AMADOU & MARIAM
w/ special guests

This blind couple from Mali who play guitar and sing, respectively, create the "fizziest afro-pop blues ever bottled." In 2003, renowned musician Manu Chao invited Amadou & Mariam to record with him, and the result is Dimanche a Bamako. The album has been a major breakthrough for the duo, reaching the top of the French album chart, earning a Gold certification, winning a Les Victoires de la Musique award (the French equivalent of a Grammy), winning the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Award for World Music and receiving album of the year by Time, National Public Radio, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, MOJO and Spin.

Effortlessly funky yet full of insanely catchy tunes and with the African core of Amadou’s stinging, snaking guitar lines and Mariam’s hypnotically soulful voice tweaked with touches of reggae, jazz, blues and rock, Dimanche a Bamako has been brought from the dense and vibrant undergrowth of the world music scene to achieve mass popular success in the mainstream. The Evening Standard dubbed Amadou and Mariam “Africa’s funkiest band” and The Observer called their music “the fizziest Afro-pop blues ever bottled” while Time Out simply declared they had made “THE world music album of the year.” If you go to only one world-music gig this year, this is the one to choose.

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Date/Time: Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 8:00 pm
Door Time: 7:30 pm
Audience: 21 and Over
Seating: Standing Room & Seated Balcony
General Admission: $21.50




These movies are recommended by Rabbi Henoch Dov Hoffman :

Synopses follow the movie titles, many taken from the Rabbi's discussions.
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Extracted from Rabbi Hoffman's website
which was last updated 7/13/04

 

Other people's recommendations:

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Suggested Reading:

  • The Painted Bird / Jerzy Kosinski
  • East of Eden / John Steinbeck
  • Escape From Freedom / Erich Fromm
  • Flatland / Edwin Abbott
  • The Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison
  • Joseph and His Brothers / Thomas Mann
  • Man's Search for Meaning / Viktor E. Frankl
  • Operation Shylock / Philip Roth
  • Soul on Ice / Eldridge Cleaver
  • The Slave / The Dibbuk / The Penitent / Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Enemies - A Love Story / Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The Hebrew Letters - Channels of Creative Consciousness / Rabbi Yitzach Ginsburg
  • What Makes Sammy Run / Budd Schulberg
  • Shivitti: A Vision by Ka-Tzentnik 135633 [ISBN 0062508709] Auschwitz and LSD
Halacha/Jewish Philosophy:
  • The 39 Avot - Melacha of Shabbat / Rabbi Baruch Chait
  • Shemirath Shabbat / Yeshua Y. Newirth
  • Code of Jewish Law / Ganzfried Goldin [Shulchan Aruch]
  • The Secret of Jewish Femininity / Tehilla Abramov
  • The Laws of Kashrus / Rabbi Benjamin Forst
  • Sacred Fire / Aish Kodesh
  • The Holy Fire / Pizetzer Rabbi
  • The Way of G-D / Moses Chaim Luzzatto
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These movies are recommended by Morah Yehudis Fishman :


• Antoine Fisher
• Apollo 13
• Buckaroo Bonzai
• Defending Your Life
• Fastlane
• Flatliners
• Ghost
• Groundhog Day
• Heaven Can Wait
• Hook
• House of Spirits
• Legally Blonde, Red, White & Blonde
• Matrix
• Medicine Man
• Mr. Holland's Opus
• Pay it Forward
• Peaceful Warrior
• Princess Bride
• Razor's Edge (old & new versions, old is better)
• Remember the Titans
• Shallow Hal
• Shawshank Redemption
• Spiderman
• Starwars
• The Chosen
• The Dybuk
• The Last Wave
• The Mask
• The Secret of Roan Inish
• The Shadow
• What The Bleep do We Know
• With Honors
• Wizard of Oz

 

Last modified: May 29, 2006