DVDs

All DVDs are $24.95 each unless otherwise noted.
These titles are also available in VHS.

ISRAEL: THE PROMISE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE - 58 Minutes
Media reporting of current events in Israel has tended to display a shocking amount of historical amnesia. To judge from the coverage of the Middle East, one would think that the ties between the Jewish people and the land of Israel have been strong only since 1948, when the Jewish state was created. In fact, Israel has been central to Jewish identity and religious life, ever since the destruction of the Second Temple and subsequent exile more than 2,000 years ago. Jews have been living in the land continuously for more than 3,000 years, and along with G-d and Torah, Israel has always been the third element in the triumvirate that has defined the Jewish people since time immemorial. The antidote to the historical amnesia is Yisroel Lifschutz's "Israel: The Promise of the Jewish People."

ISRAEL: THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLE - 27 Minutes
From its shimmering deserts to its snow covered ski slopes, this video looks at the broad spectrum of Israel’ varied landscapes and society. The video examines the country’ ancient civilizations as well as its 20th century accomplishments in agriculture, science and industry, as well as its vibrant spiritual and cultural life.

JERUSALEM: THE GATES OF TIME - 28 Minutes
A look at how Israel is preserving Jerusalem¹s existence as an historic and spiritual center while providing the services essential to a 20th century city. The video includes footage of ancient sites, recent renovations and restorations.

THE LEGACY OF ANNE FRANK - 30 Minutes
A dramatic documentary which features interviews with Dutch citizens who knew the ill-fated young diarist as a child, as well as captured German films of the Nazi occupation of Holland. Filmed on location, the program shows the school Anne attended and the house where she and her family had their hiding place. Appearing on the program is Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the only family member to survive the Holocaust.

SECRETS OF JERUSALEM - 27 Minutes An explanation of the life and times of the first and Second Temple periods hidden beneath the soil of centuries. Israel's leading archaeologists guide viewers through the tunnels and caves that played a vital role in Jerusalem's ancient history and the digs and excavations that verify biblical accounts.

MEMORANDUM - 58 Minutes
Bernard Laufer, a Jewish glass-cutter from Toronto, and his son make a return pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, "because," he says, "I am alive." Here, Mr. Laufer meets with other survivors as well as the British commander who liberated Bergen-Belsen in 1945. Mr. Laufer survived imprisonment in 11 camps including Auschwitz, but his family all were murdered in German gas chambers. Through him some of the atrocities perpetrated are recalled, but the picture of post-war Germany shown in the film is of a country forgetting its horrible past and smug in its present prosperity.

SIGHET, SIGHET - 27 Minutes
Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel returns, ghostlike, to the Hungarian town where he was born and where, twenty-five years before, the entire Jewish population disappeared into the maw of the German cattle trains. The camera pans slowly over the towns cape and cuts to photos of it from happier days, as Wiesel reflects mournfully and ironically on what has happened. A very low-key but gripping film, suited to audiences knowledgeable about the facts of the Holocaust.

TO REALIZE A DREAM - 30 Minutes
A history of Zionism from its inception until the present, this video shows scenes of epoch making events including photographs of the First Zionist Congress, film clips of the liberation of Jerusalem by General Allenby in 1917, Winston Churchill speaking at the opening ceremonies at the Hebrew University, Chaim Weizmann addressing a Zionist meeting, and David Ben Gurion reading the Declaration of Independence in 1948. In addition, the other founders of Zionism are discussed, including Borochov, Syrkin, Sokolow, Ussishkin, and Jabotinsky. "To Realize a Dream" shows the miracle of the birth of Israel, with a backdrop of the immigrants and their unstoppable pursuit of a state of their own.