January 18 2009

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 18 2009

A new database that tracks who profits from the Israeli Occupation, plus a conversation with the directors of films at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Our Disappeared and Waiting for Armageddon

Episode segments
  • Who Profits
    Israel/Palestine, Occupation
    Dalit Baum of the Coalition of Women for Peace is responsible for the project, Who Profits?
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Activists have set up a new database, Who Profits?, which tracks Israeli and international corporations that are directly involved in the construction of Israeli infrastructure in the occupied territories, in building walls and checkpoints, and in the supply of specific equipment used in the control and repression of the civilian population under occupation.

  • New York Jewish Film Festival 2009
    Film, Arts & Culture

    Documentary filmmaker David Heilbroner has codirected, with Kate Davis, Transgender Revolution, Life After Death Row, The Dark Side of Parole, Anti-Gay Hate Crimes, and Untying the Straightjacket, all for A&E. Their most recent film, which has its world premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival, is Waiting for Armageddon.

    Juan Mandelbaum is the founder and president of Massachusetts’s first independent Latino media company, Geovision, and his award-winning work has been broadcast on such venues as American Playhouse and Sesame Street. His latest film Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, has its New York premiere at the 2009 New York Jewish Film Festival.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A discussion with two filmmakers with films at the New York Jewish Film Festival, Juan Mandelbaum, director of Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos, in which Mandelbaum returns to his native Argentina to trace the fate of friends who were disappeared by the military junta there, and David Heilbroner, co-producer and co-director of Waiting for Armageddon, about Americans who believe the End Time are near.

    For further information about these and other films and screening times go to either The Jewish Museum or The Film Society at Lincoln Center.