Barry Avrich’s absorbing and uplifting documentary, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, focuses on a shining episode in a chapter of darkness. At the center of it is Noam Tibon, a retired Israeli army general who heroically braved immense danger to save his family on October 7, 2023, a day of infamy in Israel’s […]
Trust is the fuel we run on and the air we breathe, Barry Avrich muses at the start of his fascinating documentary, The Talented Mr. Rosenberg. Yet, as he quickly adds, trust can be misused as a weapon by the unscrupulous. Avrich, a prolific Canadian filmmaker, was thinking of Albert Allan Rosenberg, a notorious resident […]
Borscht Belt standup comedian Jackie Mason died last month, but he metaphorically returns from the dead in Barry Avrich’s movie, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew, which is being screened online by the Toronto Jewish Film Foundation. Released in 2008, the film portrays the inimitable Mason in his final one-man show on Broadway. Speaking in a heavy […]