Films of Jewish Interest: Jewish Thought
Movie Recommendations
- Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century. 2002.
VHS 296.09 R - These lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying such challenges and revealing the ways in which a small group of Jewish thinkers attempted to address these challenges.
- The Talmud and the Scholar. 1989. VHS 296.12 T
- A behind-the-scenes look at Adin Steinsaltz, whose English translation and analysis of the Talmud has made the Oral Law accessible to a new generation of English readers.
- Torah Forum: Children in the Age of Narcissism. 198-? VHS 649.1 C
- A made-for-television lecture by Rabbi Manis Friedman that focuses on Chassidic insights into child raising.
- Torah Forum: Transitions, Life's Seasons. 198-? VHS 302 T
- A made-for-television lecture by Rabbi Manis Friedman on how to live with hard-to-accept changes in our lives, especially as they affect loved ones.