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Michael Etherton
Michael Etherton is the CEO of UK Jewish Film
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Take a stand for Israel by supporting our film festival
The UK Jewish Film Festival stands in solidarity with the Jewish state and its filmmakers and actors
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Jewish films made in Britain? They don’t count
The diversity agenda in the arts excludes films focusing on a certain minority community
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Time to take pride in Jewish culture
'Let’s not forget the visceral power of a vast screen, the embracing resonance of surround sound, the feeling of shared experience that comes with watching a film about our community as a community.'
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We don't all have beards and peyot
'Almost inevitably, whenever I hear the word “Jew” on ITV, Sky News, the BBC or a host of national newspapers, the images show strictly-Orthodox Jews shopping in Golders Green or walking solemnly past London’s synagogues.'
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Our cultural charities need your help
Culture sustains us in troubled times - but its funding is not secure, says the chief executive of UK Jewish Film
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UK Jewish Film Festival 2017: Unique stories shared with the wider world
Michael Etherton, CEO of UK Jewish Film introduces the 2017 programme
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Cinema, croissants and queues
Michael Etherton from UK Jewish Film gives us a peek at life on the other side of the velvet rope
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