Spirited away

cover image Volume Number: disc 1 Barcode: 58947991 Call Number: V-HEB 104A Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 125 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Description: Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Spirited away

Volume Number: disc 2 Barcode: 58947992 Call Number: V-HEB 104B Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Description: Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Strangers No More

Barcode: 58954840 Call Number: V-HEB 150 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 40 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hebrew, English Creator: Directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Description: In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. The film follows several students' struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy: Mohammed, a sixteen-year-old refugee from ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Sweet Mud = Adama Meshuga'at

cover image Barcode: 58949770 Call Number: V-HEB 116 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Dror Shaul Description: An intense, disturbing coming-of-age drama about a boy with a mentally ill mother, Sweet Mud falters only in its unevocative title. The plot may sound familiar - there are so many coming-of-age stories about children with crazy mothers - but director/writer Dror Shaul makes it fresh with his vivid and often bitterly funny depiction of the film's setting, a kibbutz in the 1970s. Collection: Language Resource Center

Take A Position Series

cover image Barcode: 58963723 Call Number: DL-NH18 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 18 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by LRC Description: Four Five-Minute Programs. 1) Teacher & Student 2) Divorce 3) To Study Or Not To Study 4) Woman's Discourse Collection: Language Resource Center

Teach yourself modern Hebrew

Barcode: 58925966 Call Number: IL-HEB Gil Material Type: Language Kit Language: Hebrew, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Tel Aviv: Los Angeles

cover image Barcode: 58945007 Call Number: V-HEB 046 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by S. Imberman Description: Moodi Gazit is a mediocre comedian under the direction of a mediocre agent trying to advance his career. Pending a disastrous audition in the Israeli Television Company, he plans a plot that will give him the exposure he longs for. It works and his career climbs. He receives offers to perform in USA and decides to accept it. His stay in America transforms his conception of the world and the important things in it. Collection: Language Resource Center

Tel-Aviv-Jaffa

cover image Barcode: 58952887 Call Number: V-HEB 143 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 124 min. System Requirements: all regions DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Anat Zeltser, Modi Bar-On, and Gabriel Bibliowicz Description: Produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv, the two-part film Tel Aviv-Jaffa explores the rich and complex history of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Tel-Aviv-Jaffa

cover image Barcode: 58958275 Call Number: DV-HEB 143 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 124 min. DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Anat Zeltser, Modi Bar-On, Gabriel Bibliowicz Description: Produced in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv, the two-part film Tel Aviv-Jaffa explores the rich and complex history of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Aristocats

cover image Barcode: 58944566 Call Number: V-HEB 031 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 79 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Modern Greek Creator: Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman Description: This enchanting tale begins in Paris, when a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to her family -- a family of adorable high-society cats. Rating Audience (Video Only): G Collection: Language Resource Center

The Band's Visit = Bikur Hatizmoreth / ביקור התזמורת

cover image Barcode: 58957794 Call Number: DV-HEB 118 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 86 min. DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eran Kolirin Description: The film tells the story of an Arab music band made up of members of the Egyptian police force who head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab cultural center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong foreign city. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Band's Visit = Bikur Hatizmoreth = ביקור התזמורת

cover image Barcode: 58949772 Call Number: V-HEB 118 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 86 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eran Kolirin Description: The film tells the story of an Arab music band made up of members of the Egyptian police force who head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab cultural center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong foreign city. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Barbecue People = ha-Mangalistim

cover image Barcode: 58945159 Call Number: V-HEB 059 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 98 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Y. Madmony and D. Ofek Description: The story revolves around relationships in a Jewish family celebrating the 40th anniversary of the independence of Israel with a family barbecue in a local park. Shows the four leading character's estrangements and conflicts in the search of something fundamental for their lives. Hebrew; In Hebrew with optional subtitles in English, French or Hebrew. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Big Dig = Te'alat Blaumilch

Barcode: 58925146 Call Number: L-NH43 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 95 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Ephraim Kishon Description: Slapstick comedy lampooning bureaucracy and the madness of everyday life in Israel centers on an escaped lunatic who digs up the streets of Tel Aviv with a pneumatic drill. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Bubble = Habuah Bubble

cover image Barcode: 58953375 Call Number: V-HEB 135 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eytan Fox Description: "The Bubble" is the story of a group of young people who live in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The movie follows the group's difficulties of living in Israel's reality. Their routine breaks when a young Palestinian man enters their lives. Rating Audience (Video Only): Unrated Collection: Language Resource Center

The Cemetery Club

cover image Barcode: 58947967 Call Number: V-HEB 103 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 100 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Tali Shemesh Description: Two Holocaust survivors are members of a social club of elderly Polish-born, who meet every Sabbath to discuss philosophy, politics and poetry at the Mount Herzl National Cemetery. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Gatekeepers = Shom'ray Ha'Saf

cover image Barcode: 58956413 Call Number: V-HEB 151 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 101 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Dror Moreh Description: Charged with overseeing Israel's war on terror - both Palestinian and Jewish - the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's Secret Service, is present at the crossroads of every decision made. For the first time ever, six former heads of the agency agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers an exclusive account of the sum of their successes and failures. It validates the reasons that each man individually and the six as a group game ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Kastner Trial - Mishpat Kastner 1

Barcode: 58925086 Call Number: L-NH33a Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 184 min. Language: Hebrew Description: The trial of Malkiel Greenwald, better known as the "Kastner Trial," is the focus of this riveting docu-drama. Israel Kastner was a Hungarian Zionist leader, who by negotiating with Eichmann, was able to save some 1700 Jewish lives. Many of his friends and family were able to leave Budapest for Switzerland in August of 1944 on "Kastner’s Train." After the war, he ran for the Knesset in 1953 and was accused of Nazi collaboration by Malkiel Greenwald. Kastner sued Greenwald ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Kastner Trial - Mishpat Kastner 2

Barcode: 58925087 Call Number: L-NH33b Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 184 min. Language: Hebrew Description: The trial of Malkiel Greenwald, better known as the "Kastner Trial," is the focus of this riveting docu-drama. Israel Kastner was a Hungarian Zionist leader, who by negotiating with Eichmann, was able to save some 1700 Jewish lives. Many of his friends and family were able to leave Budapest for Switzerland in August of 1944 on "Kastner’s Train." After the war, he ran for the Knesset in 1953 and was accused of Nazi collaboration by Malkiel Greenwald. Kastner sued Greenwald ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Land of the Settlers

Barcode: 58948114 Call Number: V-HEB 108 Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Chaim Yavin Description: This five-part documentary series is a personal production in which Mr. Yavin visited the occupied territories over a period of two years as a private individual. His critics cross the entire spectrum of Israeli politics, from those who say he abandoned his objectivity, to others who complain that he kept silent for too long. Collection: Language Resource Center

The Last Fighters

cover image Barcode: 58954944 Call Number: Holocaust Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 76 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew, English, Polish, Yiddish Creator: Directed by Ronen Zaretzky and Yael Kipper Description: The first visit to Masha Gleitman who was one of the fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, was almost surreal. Here, in this very modest apartment in a rundown neighborhood, lives a former fighter in the uprising, a heroine of one of the most significant events of the 20th century. None of her neighbors know anything about her past. Can it be that she and her comrades are forgotten? This was also the sense I had after visiting the other five fighters. ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

The Secrets

cover image Volume Number: disc 1 Barcode: 58949718 Call Number: V-HEB 115A Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 120 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Avi Nesher Description: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Secrets

cover image Volume Number: disc 2 Barcode: 58949779 Call Number: V-HEB 115B Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Avi Nesher Description: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Secrets

cover image Barcode: 58956355 Call Number: V-HEB 115.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 127 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, French Creator: Directed by Avi Nesher Description: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally ... Collection: Language Resource Center

The Secrets

cover image Barcode: 58957933 Call Number: DV-HEB 115 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 120 min. DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Avi Nesher Description: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally ... Collection: Language Resource Center