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Below you will find an alphabetical listing of the video and dvd holdings of the Gray Cultural and Learning Center. The collection is constantly being updated, so be sure to check back often.
Videos and dvd's must be checked out IN PERSON, but you can call the Learning Center to check on availability, at 847 432-8900, ext. 242.
To search for a particular video, just fill in the name of the video below, and find out whether it is in our collection. You can also use the "keyword" feature, to search for ANY word that may be found in any part of the description, including title, producer/director, subject, or summary.
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Title: 5751 (1990-1991), The Year in Review
Producer, Director: Jerusalem Television Network
Audience: all
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Current Events
Summary: This is a montage of the events of the Hebrew year 5751, which affected the history and culture of the Jewish people.
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Title: A.M. Klein: The Poet as Landscape
Producer, Director: Kaufman, David
Audience: adult
Length: 58 min.
Subject: Biography -- Klein, A.M.
Summary: The personality of the century's leading Anglo-Jewish poet, A.M.Klein is revealed through interviews, selections from his writings, film footage and historical stills. His consciousness is explored, from his childhood memories of Montreal through World War II and the tragic silence of his later years.
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Title: Abraham
Producer, Director: Sargent, Joseph
Audience: adult
Length: 187 min.
Subject: Bible -- Personalities -- Abraham
Summary: This production from Turner Home Entertainment (and originally aired on television) stars Richard Harris as Abraham, and Barbara Hershey as his wife Sarah in the story of the first Jew. The film shows Abraham as he is called by G-d to leave his home and go to Canaan. It includes incidents such as the sacrifice of Isaac, Abraham's relationship to Lot, and his expulsion of Ishmael.
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Title: Abraham Joshua Heschel Remembered
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary and Marianna Mott Newirth
Audience: adult
Length: 60 min.
Subject: Heschel, Abraham Joshua
Summary: A video about the life and work of Abraham Joshua Heschel, produced by the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Title: Acts of Faith: Jewish Civilization in Spain
Producer, Director: Films for the Humanities
Audience: adult
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Jews in Spain
Summary: This program looks at the remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in Spain: the artifacts, which were Christianized or destroyed, and the people, many of whom continued to practice elements of the religion and folklore of Judaism and for most of whom the memory of Jewishness has long since been extinguished.
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Title: Adventure Travel in Israel
Producer, Director: Flying Camel Productions
Audience: all
Length: 40 min.
Subject: Israel
Summary: This travel video introduces "off the beaten track" places in Israel, for seasoned visitors to explore. It includes hiking and handgliding locales, archaeological digs, scuba and snorkeling in the Red Sea, horseback riding, and the desert on foot, jeep and rope. A side of Israel rarely seen.
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Title: Adventures of Agent Emes: Rabbi-napped
Producer, Director: Reel Jewish Entertainment
Audience: Children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Juvenile Fiction
Summary: Agent Emes has to find out why a group of rabbis have been kidnapped. It's the fiendish Dr. Lo-Tov, and only with the help of God and his classmates can Agent Emes stop him.
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Title: Adventures of Agent Emes: The Fish Head
Producer, Director: Reel Jewish Entertainment
Audience: Children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Juvenile Fiction
Summary: This is the first live-action adventure series on video tape for Jewish children. In this video, Agent E's initial escapade finds him trying to decode a mysterious message, delivered by an even more mysterious source: a talking fish head in a local kosher market. He later finds himself in a shofar-making factory.
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Title: After the War
Producer, Director: Raphael, Frederic
Audience: adult
Length: 3 disks/518 min.
Subject: Fiction
Summary: A sweeping Masterpiece Theater presentation, filmed on location in Paris, Israel and Kenya, which traces a complex friendship under fire during the tumultuous post-war years.
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Title: Again the Second Time
Producer, Director: Yavam Ltd.
Audience: all
Length: 20 min.
Subject: Jews in Ethiopia
Summary: A very moving account of Operation Solomon, the frantic effort to rescue 16,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa and take them to Israel. The video shows the bureaucracy in Ethiopia as the families are processed", and hurried to the planes. Emotional reunions take place. A must see. December, 1991.
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Title: Alan and Naomi
Producer, Director: Ryan, Paul
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 95 min.
Subject: Holocaust Survivors
Summary: This is the heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a Brooklyn boy and a young French Holocaust survivor. Lukas Haas stars as 14 year old Alan Silverman, a skinny rebellious kid who'd rather play stickball than help a young, disturbed girl.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- A Chanukah Mitzvah
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Hanukkah -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. The entire family is looking forward to another wonderful Hanukkah, except David, who is having trouble with the concept of Christmas. Mitzvah Mouse takes them to meet Judah Maccabee, and Hanukkah is celebrated.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- A Whale of a New Year
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Rosh Hashanah -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. David is always losing things. Though he tries to improve himself for Rosh Hashanah, he manages to lose his sister's goldfish. Thanks to Mitzvah Mouse, he meets Jonah, and finds out about responsbility.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- Fixing the World
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Homelessness -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. When Grandpa Abe gives a job to a homeless man, David and Rachel are determined to do their bit to "fix the world." But all of their attempts seem futile until Mitzvah Mouse takes them to see Maimonides, and they learn the value of giving.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- Lights of Freedom
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Passover -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. David and Rachel meet a talented young Russian immigrant, who teaches them about freedom, but it's not until the Mitzvah Mouse takes them to Egypt and they meet Pharoah that they learn the true meaning of freedom.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- One Big Family
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Judaism -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. Deena's International Jewish Youth Group reunion seems doomed when the family bookstore nearly falls apart, but with the help of Mitzvah Mouse, Golda Meir and other friends, the reunion is saved.
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Title: Alef Bet Blast-Off -- You've Come to the Right Place
Producer, Director: Jewish Television Network
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Judaism -- Juvenile
Summary: With the shpritz of his magic matzah meal, Mitzvah Mouse whisks his friends David and Rachel back in time to meet some of the most important people in Jewish history. Other adventures happen when the puppet family discovers how traditional Jewish values apply to modern life. This video teaches children pride in their heritage.
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Title: Alefbet Parade Video
Producer, Director: Scharfstein, Sol
Audience: juvenile
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Hebrew Alphabet
Summary: Sing along and learn the names, sounds and shapes of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The video also teaches Hebrew words. Colorful animations and lilting rhythms will familiarize your child with sound-shape relationships, and give pre-school children alefbet eading readiness.
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Title: Alila
Producer, Director: Gita, Amos
Audience: adult
Length: 122 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: This film examines the lives of residents of a run-down Tel Aviv apartment building called the ALILA. It explores the loneliness and deep need for connection that exists among those on the fringes of society.
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Title: All My Loved Ones
Producer, Director: Minac, Matej
Audience: adult
Length: 91 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Righteous Gentiles
Summary: Although this film deals peripherally with the rescue efforts of Harry Winton, a British man who came to Prague and saved over 600 Jewish children by evacuating them to London, it is really the story of one of those children, and the family he left behind. When the film starts, in 1939, the Silberstein family seems to have it made. David's father is a wealthy and respected doctor, and his uncle Sam a world-famous violinist. As Hitler's Germany claims first the Sudetenland, then all of Czechoslovakia, however, slowly the walls begin to creep in on their privileged life. We get an excellent view of this life (perhaps a bit idealized, as seen through the eyes of the son), and the changes that force them to send their beloved son away to strangers in a last desperate attempt to salvage something from calamity.
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