Jews In Shorts: Documentaries

Construction workers, a pet turtle, loving companions, difficult goodbyes, human menorahs, earth, and space.
5 Palestinian workers try to find their place alongside their Jewish-Israeli constructor during Israeli Memorial Day
Snowy, a four-inch-long pet turtle, has lived an isolated life in the family basement. With help from a team of experts and his caretaker, Uncle Larry, we ask: Can Snowy be happy, and what would it take?
Following a long and loving marriage, Yosef and Zilli tell their son Doron of their plan to commit suicide together. As the plan starts to materialize, Doron seeks to preserve his parents’ memory with his video camera.
Reconstructing one last encounter with Dad.
When Daniel was invited to appear on “Conan,” he thought he'd finally made it. Instead, he found himself on all fours in a silver Spandex bodysuit with his face attached to the ass of the guy in front of him.
I follow the tracks of my great-great-aunt in Kiev. My mother tells her story, her tragic death and reveals a dramatic part of the history of the Holocaust.
In 1996, NASA astronaut Dr. Jeff Hoffman brought a small Torah scroll on board Space Shuttle Columbia. On Shabbat, while orbiting Earth, he read from the book of Genesis
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