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Body and Soul
The quintessential boxing classic. A Jewish boxer (John Garfield) fights his way out of poverty but nearly sells his soul on the way to the top.
His People
Join us for a one-time-only musical event: a 1925 silent Jewish boxing classic set in NY's Lower East Side, accompanied live by Paul Shapiro's jazz sextet playing his new film score.
Max Baer's Last Right Hook
It's wartime 1942, and hapless entrepreneur Yaakov Gendelmayer has an idea for a morale-boosting publicity stunt: bring Jewish former heavyweight boxer Max Baer to Palestine to fight a German boxer, in an effort to recreate Baer's legendary bout against Hitler's darling, Max Schmeling. Sixty years later, Gendelmayer's son comes to Israel to interview old-timers and find out the truth about Max Baer's last right hook. In a hilarious send-up--or is it a valentine?--of the clichés of history documentaries, filmmaker Avida Livny uncovers a story so wonderful it ought to be true...and maybe it is!
Orthodox Stance
A fascinating journey into the two worlds of Dmitriy Salita, a strictly Orthodox young Russian immigrant in Brooklyn who is also an undefeated professional prizefighter.