Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League and one of the world's most influential Jewish figures, distrusts Yoav Shamir. Norman Finkelstein, a well-known Jewish scholar who is Foxman's ...

Documentary. Directed by Yoav Shamir. (In English, and Hebrew with English subtitles. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At the Roxie.) Yoav Shamir's documentary "Defamation" takes on such an explosive topic ...

“Checkpoint,” a terrific new Israeli documentary opening for a weeklong run at Facets Cinematheque, takes us to ground zero in one of the world’s main trouble spots: the occupied Palestinian ...

After finishing their compulsory military service, tens of thousands of young Israelis head for India to unwind, get stoned or, in some cases, go insane. After finishing their compulsory military ...

Oscar-winning documentarian Michael Moore (pictured) has come on board filmmaker Yoav Shamir’s forthcoming film 10-Percent: What Makes a Hero? as an executive producer, and is pledging to match all ...

Like an Israeli Michael Moore, Yoav Shamir sets out to find out if anti-Semitism really exists in Defamation, an intriguing documentary that makes its local debut tonight at 7 at the Cleveland Museum ...

Take an Israeli director, the hot-button issue of anti-Semitism, and people arguing from both sides of the fence that it exists and it doesn’t exist. What you’ve got is a recipe for a controversial ...

Yoav Shamir’s provocative new documentary, “Defamation” (“Ha Shmatsa”), suggests that today’s anti-Semitism, however pernicious, reflects little more than petty ignorance. The Israeli filmmaker’s ...

Controversy isn’t new terrain for Yoav Shamir. And controversy is the likely response to “Defamation,” his new documentary focused on anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the Arab-Israeli conflict, among ...

Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir tackles the thorny and provocative issue of anti-Semitism in his documentary "Defamation" and finds a deep divide between Jews who see it everywhere and Jews who find it ...