Films at the intersection of history and modernity are featured at the Ames Amzalak JCC Rochester Jewish Film Festival (RJFF), which runs through Sunday. The festival is celebrating its 26th year.
Posts published in July 2026
Tovah Feldshuh, a major Jewish Broadway and television actress, was the subject of a documentary shown at the Rochester Jewish Film Festival on Sunday at the Dryden Theater. Feldshuh was in attendance for a Q&A with director David Serero.
Gangsters and religious missionaries sound like opposing crowds. But in Happy End, the Kurt Weill, Bertold Brecht, and Elisabeth Hauptmann musical theater work from 1929, they are far more alike. They are both wayward groups fighting capitalist injustices, albeit from opposing vantage points, and they both struggle to hold onto…
What do “vibrant acidity” and “steely brilliance” sound like? ChamberFest Canandaigua answers that question by pairing musical selections with wine from the Ventosa Vineyards in Geneva on Sunday at 2 p.m.
From the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer residency at Tanglewood to Mass MoCA and the Kripalu Yoga and Health Center, the Berkshires offers Rochester music lovers a nearby cultural escape.