Streaming Jewish movies at home, Part II

By Laurie Baron, PhD

-Second in a series; here is a link to Part I–

SAN DIEGO — Here are more Jewish-interest films and programming available to watch at home

Ergo Media: Buy DVDs of Jewish feature and documentary films.

Israel Film Stream Center: Purchase Israeli films for streaming.

Jewish Film Institute Online Shorts Collection: If you’re a fan of shorts, you can stream Jewish shorts from your computer.

National Jewish Film Center: Buy DVDs of old and new Jewish films.

Better Things (FX. Hulu): Pam Adlon is great as a single Jewish mother raising three daughters in Los Angeles.

Bombshell (Netflix): Documentary about Heddy Lamarr, brilliant inventor and beautiful actress.

Broad City (Comedy Central, Hulu):  If you haven’t ever seen the raunchy antics of two single Jewish women in New York, now’s a chance to add some laughs to your shut-in life.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW and Amazon) A high-powered Jewish female lawyer gives up her job to pursue a man she knew when she was a teen at summer camp.

Menashe (Netflix): An independent Yiddish film about a Chasidic man fighting to regain custody of his son after his wife’s death.

The Meyerowitz Stories (Netflix): The estranged members of a dysfunctional Jewish family gather to attend an exhibition honoring the artwork of its patriarch.

Red Sea Diving Resort (Netflix): Dramatization of how the Mossad helped Ethiopian Jews escape to Israel.

The Scent of Rain in the Balkans (MHz Choice) A generational saga about a Sephardic Jewish family in Bosnia between 1914 and 1945.

Transparent (Amazon): Meet the Pfefferman family as its members navigate their Jewish and sexual identities.

YidLife Crisis  Two Yiddish speaking young men deal with dating and being religious in Montreal.

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Lawrence Baron, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University and the author of Projecting the Holocaust into the Present.   He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com