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EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES
Acts of Faith: Jewish Civilization in Spain, 1992, 52 min.
“Civilization and the Jews,” 1984, WNET Thirteen Production for PBS, 10-part series.
David Grossman, 2006, 32 min.
Grossman discusses his book The Lion’s Honey, a retelling of the biblical story of Samson, in an interview with Bill Moyers.
The Forbidden Garden: Piercing the Veil of the Kabbalah, 2000, 63 min.
Essentials of Faith: Judaism, 2006, 24 min.
Genocide, 1981.
Historical unfolding of the Holocaust; won Academy Award.
A History of Jewish-American Achievement, 2010, eight DVDs.
Introduction to Judaism, 2004, 30 min.
Jerusalem: Center of the World, 2009, two-part series.
The Jewish People: A Story of Survival—Educator’s Edition, 2007, 104 min.
Judaism: Sarah’s Daughters, 1999, 26 min.
Keepers of the Faith: Hasidim in the New World and Beyond, 2000, 53 min.
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites, 2003, 240 min.
Paper Clips, 2004, 84 min.
Punk Jews, 2012, 120 min.
Reform Judaism, 2007, 27 min.
Shock and Awe: The Exodus Narrative, 2008, 53 min.
Talmudic Thought, 2006, 93 min.
To Torah and Testimony, 2006, 63 min.
PODCASTS and RADIO
The Progressive Jewish Radio Hour
Bi-weekly radio with Seth Schapiro (listen online)
Nachum Segal Network, “Jewish news around the world”
On Being, radio conversations and podcasts about the spiritual and intellectual content of faith.
TELEVISION
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, weekly 30-min. PBS production
POPULAR FILMS and DOCUMENTARIES
American History X, 1998 (racism; neo-Nazism)
The Chosen, 1978 (Jewish Zionism, liberal Orthodox Judaism, Hasidism, American secularism)
Fiddler on the Roof, 1971 (modernization vs. tradition)
A Mighty Heart, 2007 (about Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl)
The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, 1988 (young Jewish boy meets real life outside parents’ orthodoxy)
Paradise Now, 2005 (Jewish–Arab conflict)
Schindler’s List, 1993 (the Holocaust)
PERIODICALS
Jewish Chronicle, newspaper
Moment Magazine, largest U.S. independent Jewish magazine
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly
Tikkun, a bimonthly Jewish critique of politics, culture and society
LITERATURE
The Chosen by Chaim Potok (the conflict of modernity, orthodoxy, and political Zionism), 1987
The Covenant by Naomi Ragen, 2005
The Finkler Question (Man Booker Prize) by Howard Jacobson (exclusion and belonging), 2010
Honey from the Rock: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism by Lawrence Kushner, 1999
The River of Light: Jewish Mystical Awareness by Lawrence Kushner, 2000
Sotah by Naomi Ragen (comparisons of Israeli Orthodox and American Jewish life), 2009
Souls on Fire: Portraits and Legends of Hasidic Masters by Elie Wiesel, 1982
The Source by James Michener, 1986
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (war and loss), 2010
Women’s Minyan by Naomi Ragen, 2006 (also a play)