December 29, 2023
We’ve just had a film shortlisted for The Oscars. That, on top of our first Broadway credit earlier this year, has us kvelling. We engaged 5.5 million people in our projects. And Reboot Studios’ commitment to new Jewish projects now tops a half a million dollars of support for television, film, podcasts, music, theater and publishing content. Thank you for your support in helping propel us to one of the most successful and impactful years ever! During these dark times, we see light in the power of art as a unifying force, bringing people together to create greater empathy. Reboot produces contemporary Jewish cultural content that engages, educates and inspires. Our work, along with accompanying resources and curriculum, expands and energizes the Jewish conversation and experience. We are helping to tell a new generation of positive, diverse Jewish stories – critically needed to bring brightness and insight to these challenging times. Read more here.
January 24, 2024
We wish you a wonderful and bountiful Tu B’Shvat. The 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar, celebrated this year from sunset January 24 through the evening of January 25, the holiday marks the beginning of a “new year” or “birthday” of all fruit trees. The day marks the season in which the earliest-blooming trees emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. Many people celebrate with a seder that includes wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, dates. On this day, we wish for the health and end of suffering for everyone.
Download our Tu B’Shvat playlist for your celebration. Find more here.
January 11, 2024
Filmmaker Christiane Arbesu’s new film, I am Judit, explores the life of Holocaust survivor Judy Sleed in a captivating portrait of Sleed’s resilience and inflatable joy, despite her harrowing childhood. Sleed’s parents and brother were taken to concentration camps when she was 12, leaving her alone. With the help of relatives, she eventually ended up in the United States where she built a new life, marrying and having children. But even though she hosted a talk show telling other people’s stories on a local access television station in East Hampton, New York, she never shared about being a Holocaust survivor, even with her own children. Once Arbesu met Sleed, she knew she had to help Sleed tell her story. Watch the film here.
December 29, 2023
We’ve just had a film shortlisted for The Oscars. That, on top of our first Broadway credit earlier this year, has us kvelling. We engaged 5.5 million people in our projects. And Reboot Studios’ commitment to new Jewish projects now tops a half a million dollars of support for television, film, podcasts, music, theater and publishing content. Thank you for your support in helping propel us to one of the most successful and impactful years ever! During these dark times, we see light in the power of art as a unifying force, bringing people together to create greater empathy. Reboot produces contemporary Jewish cultural content that engages, educates and inspires. Our work, along with accompanying resources and curriculum, expands and energizes the Jewish conversation and experience. We are helping to tell a new generation of positive, diverse Jewish stories – critically needed to bring brightness and insight to these challenging times. Read more here.
December 8, 2023
Lauren Hoffman offers her interpretation on the torah portion of Vayishlach, examining how we continue to wrestle, just like Jacob.
“And we, his descendents, keep wrestling. With God or God’s absence, with our fear and bewilderment, among ourselves and with others, in small ways and explosive ways, with these texts that we are raised to wrestle with year after year, that may be telling us to do one thing, be one way, or may be telling us to do something else entirely – the exact opposite, even: to learn from mistakes and do better. We wrestle, twisting ourselves into knots to fit any of what we read and see happening around us into a schema for righteousness and meaning. We are a nation who has been blessed, rebranded, prophesied, cursed to wrestle, whether we want to or not.”
Read more on our blog here.
December 7, 2023
The passing of the legendary Norman Lear this week led Reboot Network Member and Silver Screen Studios creator Tiffany Woolf to reflect on her recent cancer diagnosis and how Lear teaches us the importance of living life to the fullest to the very end. Woolf and Reboot’s Studio Managing Director Noam Dromi interviewed Lear in 2020 as part of the Silver Screen Studios project she created with Reboot in a quest for generational guidance. Others they have interviewed have also passed on, but this one gave Woolf pause. In the interview, Lear talked about the game of life and to love all of it, even when you are dealt a lousy hand. That every moment in one’s life leads you to this moment now, and no matter how good or bad, as Mr. Lear says “This too I get to experience.” Instead of future tripping on how long she has to live, Woolf realized she could start living NOW, just playing the game of life well, appreciating all of it, good or bad. Read more of Woolf’s reflections on Lear’s passing and see the interview here.