the jewish film festival program festival. welcome, lexi and jay. >> thank you for having us. >> we came in the trailer of the jewish film festival. what's up with the jewish film festival this year? >> we thought we would start with our trailer, funny send up for san francisco because we're so pleased to be a thriving cultural institution in the bay area. the film festival is the first and largest jewish film festival in the world and this year, we have 70 films from 18 different countries around the world. we've also extended our castro run. last year, we had such an amazing increase in attendance, an unprecedented 21% increase in attendance that we made a crazy decision and decided to extend our castro run to two full weekends, so we've got our opening night on july 24th going through august 3rd at the astro and then after all over the bay area in oakland, berkeley, palo alto and san rafael. >> fantastic. the jewish film festival has become a cultural institution in the bay area and functions on so many different levels. we

jewish festival what is new this year? >> we thought we would start with our trailer, a sunny send out for san francisco because we're so pleased to be a thriving cultural institute in the bay area. this is the first and largest jewish film festival in the world. and we have 70 films from 18 different country across the world. and we extended our castro run. last year we had an amazing increase in attendance, and unprecedented 21% increase in attendance that we made a crazy decision and decided to extend our castro run to two full weekends. we have opening night going through july 23rd and after all over the bay area in oakland, berkley. >> fantastic. the jewish film festival is really becoming a cultural institution in the san francisco area and functions on so many different levels. we'll spend our time looking at so many different clips and see the diversity of all of the films that you're going to be showing. i'm wondering, in a general way how do you choose what you put on the screen? >> we have an elaborate selection

i found out i was jewish when i was 13 years old. that is not as uncommon as might be but it was a shock when my dad played that one on me so i decided at that point in 1956 after one week of shellshocked i decided i would get with the program. so i decided i but go to temple there was no temple in my home town so i would hitchhike to the next town. but the weirdest thing is the temple rejected me because i was like a geek from the next down that they would look down on with no permits but and could not speak hebrew and had a bad attitude. so i gave up to go back to a regular american. but through this whole era i was looking around for role models. what jews are out there i could relate to? is it like canadians or molly goldberg? nothing like could relate to. íjuht$u program. then came 1967 and the six-day war. suddenly up and tell that time i wasn't very much aware israel even existed now suddenly the state of israel was hanging by a of the red then suddenly in six days they turned it around and on tv's the jewish fighter pilots, a

ofyou are the former head one of the leading jewish organizations, the american jewish congress. >> also synagogue council of america. >> these are major establishment jewish organizations. thesaid you went to see head of hamas several times. the u.s. government calls them a terrorist organization and will not communicate with them, they communicate through other countries. talk about your decision to meet with him, where you met with him, and the significance of your conversations. >> first of all, it should be noted that the u.s. has no such policy of meeting with terrorist organizations. has a policy of not meeting with hamas, that is different. we are happy to negotiate with the taliban, and they are happy to kill girls that go to school, and that did not prevent the united states from having negotiations with the taliban, so that's nonsense that we don't talk to terrorist organizations. we talk to enemies if we want to cease the slaughter and we are happy to do so if it reaches an agreement to do it. why should hamas be the exception? again, i find it dishonest. the only reason we d

or not they were jewish. on the other hand, hitler's well justified feels of inferiority are well known, his feelings of envy and of humiliation and of anger are enormously important and the success of so many, of so many jewish germans and austrians in the art world, it's quite plausible to think that that put an edge on his hay -- hatred. but i think the best explanation comes from the fact that he was personally so deeply invested in the german victory, in a german victory in the first world war because he'd been such a complete loser up til then in his life. this was the first accomplishment, the first time he was respected by anyone. he had a purpose, which was german victory. germany surrenders, a lot of people on the right wing of german politics blame the socialist party for surrender. and since he and many other people believed the jews were behind the socialists, they're the culprits for the defeat. that seems to be -- we can't be sure, but that's the best educated guess for the source of his hatred

but, and anti-jewish riot is not a critique. it is not free expression when a protest turned into a mob that attacked a synagogue or a kosher grocery store. it is one thing when the message is to end the fighting. when the message is a death to the jews, it is an outrage. [applause] and it is dangerous. the mayor of a major city takes to twitter to invoke hitler and insight hostilities against the israeli embassy which he calls " despicable murders consulate." that is just hate. and it has got to stop. [applause] as the late tom lantos used to save and i quote "the veneer of civilization is paper thin. we are is the guardian and we can never rest." and so, when the leaders in tehran talk about ending the state of israel, that is just one more reason why america is determined to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. [applause] under president obama's leadership, it has been unprecedented pressure on iran. he brought i ran to the negotiating table and signed a joint plan of action that halted iran's progress and rolled it

jewish neighbors. jewish friends. jewish tailors were always the closest friends in our family. i was asked recently by a rabbi in new york, why do you love israel in and i said, i can't even begin to name the ways that we christians love israel. to see a group of people that restored themselves after 2,000 years of being dispersed in every direction, to see desert place made into a garden, to see democracy that is -- the only democracy in the whole region. to recognize a place, the only country where christians are free to worship in safety and liberty throughout the middle ea east. only israel. we can never thank you enough. especially as we see the twin sister of hamas isis destroying the tomb of jonah, one of our great heroes, and daniel, just in these last few days. the viciousness of these people is just incomparable. but in many other ways, let me go back to many of the reasons we love israel so much. because we see also fulfillment of hebrew scripture prophecy and the protection of land that we hold dear because our great heroes, our savior included walked the land of ou

in order to be a jewish state you have to have a jewish majority.f you have a jewish majority you do not need a declaration. if you have a declaration without a jewish majority, it will just be a declaration. i think there is a formula that may be abbas can agree to. that is my impression. the statement and the agreement would be the following. state a jewish state, israel. one state a palestinian state, palestine. so this will fit both the realities and the declaration. >> it seems on the issue of war and peace that net -- everybody knows what the settlement has to be. since not really changed the 1967 war. >> it did change for a much. the two state solution was not accepted either the two major parties of israel, the right and the left. the right -- [indiscernible] solution. two state people say -- it is a process. standpoint,our there is a clear majority and .fficial policy of israel support a two state solution. they wanted to conquer everything. principle, least in there is an agreement that a two state solution is the best. difficult it will b

jewish. and yet he insisted he was not and never had been an anti-semite. indeed, stengel claimed to have had, in his terms, quite friendly relations with the jewish prisoners in the camp. and when asked was there any aspect of his so-called work at the camps that he had found pleasurable, he said with emphasis, that's what i enjoy, human relations. that is, with prisoners. and to appreciate how grotesque this notion is, you have to remember that every single one of these prisoners was living under a sentence of death. stengel allowed them to live only so long as they could serve their german haasers as slave labor to help keep the camps running, and as soon as they had outlived their usefulness, their lives were over. and these prisoners understood this terrible reality every bit as well as stengel did, and then theless, his contact with them is supposed to be friendly and, for him, enjoyable. his chief example of his relations with condemned men was with a man named blau from vienna. in ste

still going on today, there were editorials in the jewish daily forward, and other jewish media about what at least one editorialist referred to as a shameful conduct of the american jewish joint distribution committee. dr. afoumado -- charged with negotiating the cuban government and at one point said give us $500 per st. louis passenger or a total of $453,000 we will allow them to land. lawrence came back and said, well, i think this is all a bit of latin american horsetrading so i will offer $443,000. in other words, $10,000 less. and at that the president felt insulted and said the negotiations are over. the st. louis must leave cuban waters tomorrow. so for a figure of $10,000, or $11 per passenger, those negotiations broke down. so even then there was debate within the jewish community as to whether or not everything proper had been done. >> thank you, martin, very much. the remarkable thing for me, and i'm sure many others, about the st. louis story is that if you examine the american media throughout the course of world war ii, editors did know what was going on in europe. ver

it happens because of the jewish dna. [laughter] [applause]the jewish dna doesje.wish. [laughter] >> yes. [applause]>> you is know israely country.?qfknpeople complain t- countries, we are purely holy country. so we started actually with agriculture because we didn't have nothing. and -- because weoutnumbered any others. so a land which is nature --/be and now it calls. maybe we don't have the talent to be simple people. but we are very rich in -- many persons, maybe more than -- and those i think is the only compensation for the suffering of ouro w forefathers.>> rose: your sus president does not have the same commitment to a two-statesoluti. >>líg/ well it's not4president - policy and i'm sure that he will respect the policy whichbasicale government. i mean there are many people/cey with different -- i can't imagine they should have thousand policies.)by the way i- president says he wants to meet abbas. it wasn't his initial but he sell his people and no trust:÷o. >> rose: i would love for you to speak though to the democratic argument as you have often pointed

the settlements is to not make it possible. >> the jewish settlers. >> the jewish settlers have achievedrreversibility of a settlement in terms of a vast infrastructure that one has put in place. a leftistere were government, a so-called leftist government that came to power, it would not be able to do it because of the upheaval that would be necessary to create such a state. there is only one thing -- two things that could happen that could still produce a palestinian state. is because the united states remains absolutely essential in terms of israel security, its continued success at some point- if the united states were to say -- have now reached a point we have been with you through thick and thin, and we have and many have criticized the u.s. and the international community that we have double standards, and correcting things of israel that we do not expect from the rest of the world. we do have double standards, but it works the other way around. we grant israel privileges and tolerate behavior that we would not in other allies. we might say there is nothing we can do to change tha

i discovered that i have a jewish relative. i actually have a jewish sister.days, killing arabs value. this is what i have to live in. because of what i witnessed in the middle east, it in refugee i haveunder occupation, seen how pain, grief, and when you keep 60% of the population going hungry to bed, 90% without clean water, the only thing that can rise is extremism, and the solution is not bombardment. thesolution is lifting siege and empowering them financially and letting them thate moderate leadership eventually can take over. we did not manage to topple hamas, and that is fact. we are failing in our strategy on how to contain extremists. hamas was dead politically. the this more, we will him surviving hamas -- reviving hamas. >> how did you go from growing up in an orphanage in haifa to becoming a journalist? >> i won a scholarship from the italian government, i went there and became the first foreign, black anchor on italian television. rightattacked by the during the iraqi war because i challenged their views. when i visited, it was clear, there was n

we have a very special show for you and future in an exclusive debate between two very prominent jewish boyce's with very different perspectives on the israel palestine conflict without further ado let's break the sad. please please. please very hard to take that lightly oh. well you better act with the earthquake there really. believe. that. it's been over three weeks since the start of operation protective the latest military offensive launched by israel against the gaza strip to date the bombing campaign and subsequent invasion has resulted in the deaths of one thousand four hundred thirty two palestinians the vast majority of which are civilians including three hundred twenty seven children and one hundred sixty six women according to the gaza health ministry on the israeli's side as many as fifty six i.d.f. soldiers and the recent billions of also been killed according to reuters the situation on the ground is changing by the minute and these numbers reflect only the latest at the time of this broadcast as the cow. continue to mount and a series of proposed cease fires have failed

mark is a deeply jewish text. matthew and luke still maintain sort of jewish affinities.hey explain the jewish things that jesus does. john begins his gospel not with an infancy narrative, not with jesus' miraculous birth to a virgin, it begins at the beginning of time. [speaking in native tongue] john says, in the beginning was the word and the word was with god, and the word was god. right away john says something brand new. you see, matthew, mark and luke never, ever called jesus god. ever. they called jesus the son of god, which is actually a title, not a description, it's a title for king. they certainly intimate that there is a divine quality to jesus, and certainly postresurrection there is a divine nature to jesus. but at no point in these three gospels does jesus say i am god. the first verse of john says jesus was not a man, he was an eternal, divine being who was responsible for -- now here's his story. so right away what you see in john is something completely new, totally different. now, what we know, of course, is that these four gospels were not the only fo

these remind us of jews killed at a jewish day school. in germany, long counted, appropriately so, for its extensive protective policies against anti-semitism, jews are witnessing anti-semitic slogans and chants that seem so out of date and out of place. only a few days ago, a jewish man wearing a yarmulke was assaulted on the streets of berlin and hit in the face. a group of anti-israel protests on their way to attack a synagogue were arrested for conspiracy to commit a crime. , statements, the screaming in frankfurt, you jews are beast, in paris, death to the ews, in germany, chants of hamas, hamas, jews to the gas. all over the world, not just statements, but the vitriol found on social media as well is not only abhorrent, it is chilling. but these incidents as my colleagues have described are not taking place only abroad. just this past weekend, as my friend from florida related, a synagogue in her district was vandalized with the word hamas and swastikas. nearby, jews woke up to find one of chair cars eggs -- egged and the other cove

this was from 1946, 1947, the last joint palestinian jewish house. we had a very good relationship with the arabs. and then the war started in 1947. >> all the arabs were pushed out. >> they were pushed out. >> they feel guilty that you are living here? >> no, no. >> you don't feel guilty that this is a home that belongs to a palestinian family and they got pushed out, and you are the recipient, the beneficiary of the blood and sweat and tears. >> i feel that the israeli government owes them, because the israeli government is the one who made this law about people who are not here. and the question is if people are ready to take compensation instead of coming back. >> the next day david and i separated so that i could go alone into gaza. along with the west bank, gaza is one of the two areas that have been taken by israel in 1967 and has been an occupied territory ever since. >> when i was in gaza david attended an israeli right wing rally in jerusalem. a large movement of religious israelis believe that rather than returning this land, it should be

but little attention has been given to the jewish-american family. indeed, when reading arnold's correspondence, it was the first time i ever stopped to really think and appreciate what it was like for family to deal with this crisis. arnold corresponded not only with his relatives, but bank officials, immigrant aid societies, u.s. court officials. there was always a letter to write, and there were always nagging questions. had his relative received his letter? had his relative received the money he had sent, or had a nazi official pocketed it? was he following u.s. immigration law? at one point he's concerned that he has filed so many affidavits that he wonders that perhaps he has broken the law. as arnold deals with these questions, he does so through the prism of the depression. in 1933 when his german-born father had died, he inherited hatch knitting. when operating at full capacity, factory employed 1,000. yet in 1933 there were weeks when the doors opened in the morning and only 150 people passed through to report to a job. understandably, he w

both a jewish and non-jewish audience. it was a--we would now call a somewhat highbrow magazine, and it published a lot of the intellectuals from partisan review. it published a lot of non-jews, of course, and i was an editor there for five years. c-span: i want to make a connection for the audience that may not follow these things in detail. from a booknotes in april, let's watch this and get your reaction to it. (excerpt from april, 1995, booknotes) c-span: how did you and irving kristol originally hook up? ms. gertrude himmelfarb: that's a rather peculiar story. it goes back to our youth. i was very young--i think i was 18 when--when we met, and i think he was probably all of 20 or something like that. and we were both trotskyists. we were both very m--you're surprised at that. we were very much involved in the radical movement. and we met at a trotskyist meeting, and we were married a year later. c-span: where? ms. himmelfarb: and that's our--in--in new york, in brooklyn. it was actually in brooklyn. c-span: now what w

was non jewish so the idea was to dispossess that population and create a jewish state on that land. there were major manipulations in the united states to push the scientist agenda i was astounded to there are a great many books that have documented that just most people don't know about them because most of them are out of print but there was major activism on behalf of zionism some of it was very public much of it was kept hidden there were a number of front groups for the groups that were in palestine at that time working to fight against the palestinians who were living on that land so it was. if people want to go want to know where did this violence in gaza start do you go back to july twelfth there or maybe june eighth when the the three israelis were abducted you learn that just before they were abducted for palestinian children had been killed you learned that from the beginning of two thousand and fourteen january first there had been already thirty palestinians killed before those three were abducted so where do you start where do you go back to understand the beginning yo

>> only jewish. >> only jewish in the village. >> and this?grilled. and then we use the sauce. it's that intense kind of goat-y flavor. very typical for palestinian cooking. >> okay. man, this is good. >> i just had this incredibly delicious meal completely oblivious to the fact that it's entirely vegetarian. if any of the vegetarian restaurants in new york served food that tasted near this, i would actually go there. you made it, i'd consider it. >> and this? >> zucchini. >> and the apricots. the sweet apricots we had. >> all this food is intensely delicious. >> are you hopeful? >> of course, i had my children, i need to see them. >> i respect her religion, she respects my religion, my family. and together, we can build something for our kids. our future country. that's what we think, and that's what we give the message for our customers. >> part of the attraction of this restaurant, the fact it actually manages to do what so many chefs try to do here, try to mix the jewish ethnicity, background, with arab food. live in the same communities t

you jewish. not the first time. see. >> you writer?a writer, yes. [ speaking hebrew ] now you bar mitzvah. >> mazel tov. >> mazel tov. thank you, gentlemen. >> i've never felt so much like i'm masquerading like something i'm not. i am instinctively hostile to any kind of devotion. certainty is any enemy. i'm all about doubt, questioning ones self and the nature of reality. when they grabbed hold of me and in a totally nonjudgmental way essentially -- god's happy to have you, here you go. oh, man. my treachery is complete. just because i was raised outside the faith with no particular attachment or loyalty to israel doesn't mean that plenty of people on this earth don't hate me in principle. i know that. but the state of israel, i never really knew what to think. first look around, it's like everybody says -- it's pretty. it's awesome. it's urban. sophisticated. hip. like southern california. only nicer. then you see the young draftees in the streets and you start to get the idea. this is jerusalem. >> i'm taking you through damascus ga

but an anti-jewish riot is not a policy critique. it's not free expression when a protest turns into a mob that attacks the synagogue in a kosher grocery store. it's one thing when the message is end the fighting, but when the message is death to the jews, it's an outrage. [applause] >> skpand it's dangerous. when the mayor of the city calls hitler, quote, the despicable murderer's consulate. that's just hate and it's got to stop. as the late tom lantos used to say, and i quote, the veneer of civilization is paper thin. we are its guardians, and we can never rest. and so when leaders in tehran talk openly about ending the state of israel, that's just one more reason why america is determined to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. [applause] >> under president obama's leadership, we've martialed unprecedented equal and diplomatic pressure on iran. we brought iran to the negotiating table and signed a joint plan of action that halted iran's progress on its nuclear program and rolled it back in key respects for the first time

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and we received the tweet directed toward one of our jewish guests.hy do you keep having that zionist pig on your program? where are the palestinian voices. what do you make of that? >> i get tweets like that almost every single day. it's very zurich. you're victimizing the victim. you're saying those that experience genocide, and a lot of the things that fareed is referring to in france and in germany. france was the vichy regime that cooperated with germany. you don't even allow them the comfort to feel victimization. you say they have internalized the hatred and they're just like the nazis themselves. it's extremely disturbing. >> social media making it easier to spread hate? >> it makes it easier to spread powerful emotions of any kind. you have a vast insymmetry of power. that asymmetry of power is visible very clearly around the world. and it naturally evokes a certain set of emotions. >> but what is the difference, fareed, between free speech which is protected here and dangerous opinion or dangerous rhetoric? we've seen people using nazi propa

writing, attacks against people of jewish belief and synagogs, cannot be tolerated.othing, including the dramatic military confrontation in gaza justifies any such transgressions in europe. here in the u.s. support for israel has been strong. support of hamas made its way to this miami synagog, painted alongside swastikas. >> my wife is shaking. she woke up, she's gathering the kids and she's shaking. she feels like this 1940s all over again. >> it is yet another troubling sign of hatred spreading beyond the bombs of war. jake tapper, cnn, washington. >>> the fighting rages on in eastern ukraine. up next, how some of the badly wounded soldiers are coping with the help of their new brides. >> is this the wedding day that you predicted, that you dreamed of? >> no. iring plumbers, carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angieslist.com no more calling around. no more hassles. start shopping from a list of top-

in other words if you fail to declare loyalty to the jewish state, to the jewish state you will be stripped of your sedition ship rights in the supply to 20% of the israeli public award not jewish or palestinian citizens of israel. and these laws, lieberman moves to fulfill his promise as he entered the knesset and his party into the knesset as the third-largest party in coalition with younger members of the likud and the support even from ehud barack who supported an initiative which passed to require all new citizens of israel to swear loyalty to the jewish and democratic state. loyalty of us. these loyalty oath, this loyalty oath was first introduced by racist incitement to advocated the establishment of a theocratic fascist state state in with your bird to as judeo-and samarra or the west bank and the transfer of all palestinians and nonwho refuse to swear loyalty to the state of israel. they ran a headline declaring that come on i had one with ehud barack and the labour party support. up next law partners hillary clinton webb hubbell talks about the background to his political thriller

i don't want people coming up and talking to me and giving me problems because i'm jewish", this is a sat situation. what you need to know about the french jewish population, it's charge, the third-largest in the world. but it's also largely north african. these are jews who emigrated, fleeing arab countries after world war ii, and after the creation of the state of israel, but came to france for safety, and feel threatened here. >> we are seeing other reports, a study from tel aviv, saying one-third declined attending jewish events was of attacks on places like sina gocks. >> is it symbolic, sippa goings, other places where jews would gather or in community levels in homes? >> it is pt in homes, synagogues will be defaced. there'll be graffiti, attacks on the buildings more than against individuals, but every so often something happens that sends an absolutely icy chill through the community. a couple of years ago you had a young man down in the south of france who identified with al qaeda, and thought that he was going to be a great jihadist. and he started out killing a couple of f

of those 12,000 thousand, only 311 were jewish. was over 50% of the rabbis in the united states at that time. would say you are superseding the numbers. they said we love our country like you do. but if we don't win the war in europe, there will be no more jews. as they are moving in, the jewish refugees are coming out. imagine the dilemma a jewish chaplain faces. he has people who have been hiding. they are hungry. they are frightened. they have not had a worship service in years. they are begging the chaplain to stay with them. they want to stay. they want to help them. they want to bless them. but they have a battalion to travel with. they need to keep moving. sometimes they would linger for a day or two and hurried to catch up. but there were tensions. these were things nobody expected. the further they got into france and belgium and then into germany, the more of these jewish refugees were found. the cries for help were phenomenal. europe in world war ii was always tender toward children. we were pretty tender toward women as

now they seek to illegitimize the jewish state rather than the jewish people. not going to happen. it will never be tolerated. there is freedom of speech we accept that. but the thing is when we have freedom of speech to defend ourselves also we know that we can make a difference, especially in front of the united nations. >> reporter: the longer this protest rolls on, the more likelihood there will be protests all around the world, middle east on both sides of the continent. a peace solution seems to elude world leaders. john. >> john terret. >>> now, the deadly ebola virus. two american aid workers are being treated for the disease. the outbreak is the worst in history. killing nearly 700 people in west africa. jake ward is here. how is it that doctors are being infected? >> those doctors wear ppe, personal protective equipment. a full body suit and mask because the transmission with ebola happens from direct contact with bodily fluids. if a person is sick, physically ill, vomits, if that's aspirated by the doctor, have somehow ended up sick. right now there's great concern with