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Wat zijn de idealen van De Vrijdagavond? Video-gesprek met Wanda F Bloemgarten

Op de dag van het 1-jarig bestaan sprak ik met Wanda F Bloemgarten, eindredacteur van De Vrijdagavond, what an inspiration! Gefeliciteerd, team De Vrijdagavond met deze geweldige prestatie en ik zie uit naar het volgende jubileum! video credits Past, Present, Future – In gesprek over De Vrijdagavond By Ega Netz, Stichting Rainbow Music: Sururbian Chimes, electronic track by Wanda F Bloemgarten

25 jaar Stichting rainbow

The Bund, Utopia for Real

This week I’ll tell you about The Bund, Utopia for Real, the TV documentary we produced in 1997, exactly 100 years after the Bund was created. A secret Jewish workers’ movement, the Bund or also written as BUND (Yiddish: בונד‎, cognate to German: Bund, ‘union’) was established in November 1897 in a small shack in the Russian town of Vilna. From thirteen men it had grown within a few years into an open and proud worldwide organization with hundreds … [Lees verder]

25 jaar Stichting rainbow

Hans Snoek of the Scapino Ballet, a Tzadeket Gdola

It was thanks to this documentary that I got to know aspects of the life of Hans Snoek, the founder of the Scapino Ballet, of which she never boasted. This documentary was indeed, a great vehicle to promote the values for which she stood. Sadly, Hans (formal: Johanna) died a year later, remarkably on Yom Kippur’s eve, which – some people believe – is another sign of her righteousness. She was, indeed, a Tzadeket Gdola, … [Lees verder]

25 jaar Stichting rainbow

In Search of the Jewish Secret

An experimental, humoristic MTV-style documentary about the meaning of being a Jew, as seen by Dutch Jews – and non-Jews. Ten years after the creation of Stichting Rainbow – for the realization of the TV documentary Summer, Autumn, WAR, Spring – came the idea to make an experimental, funny documentary. By then we had done a string of TV documentaries: Israel – the Other Reality Israel – the Changing of the Minds ISRAEL ROCKS! The … [Lees verder]