giving creative expression to the voice of the soul
by Yehudis Keller, age 15, NY
Hi Rivka! We are so glad for this opportunity to talk to you. Many of us have seen you starring as lead actress in A Light for Greytowers and The Heart that Sings. How does it feel to play such an important role in these movies?
To begin with, I really feel it is a privilege to be involved in these projects at all. I honestly didn’t understand how necessary these movies were until I started [...]
by Yedida Wolfe
Robin Garbose’s inspiring energy filled Stern College’s Koch auditorium last Monday night as the film producer and founder of Kol Neshama summer camp visited the campus for a screening of her award-winning feature film, “The Heart that Sings”. A panel discussion with Stern students Mimi Farb, Tova Miller and Leah Gottfried, who had main roles in the film, followed the show. Stern’s film club, dramatic society, and career development center sponsored the evening, which served as a reunion [...]
by Sarah Trappler Spielman
One afternoon this past winter, I waited at a café in Boro Park for Yuta Silverman, an ambitious young filmmaker who lives in the neighborhood. Although I had watched four of her films in one week, I didn’t know what to expect. But when a beautiful red-haired woman entered with a beaming smile and an open, friendly face, I immediately recognized her as the star of Sheffield’s Manor, a film about a group of girls hiding in [...]
Orthodox Hollywood director, Robin Garbose, will be speaking this evening at the second screening of her most recent film, “The Heart that Sings,” for female audiences.
The movie musical is about a young holocaust survivor named Miriam, who lives in New York in the 1950s and spends a summer at a girls camp in the Catskills as drama director. At first the campers take advantage of her quiet, broken spirit but in the end they transform [...]
by Libby Herz
One of the most-widely attended Jewish film festivals in the United States shined a spotlight on the lives of religious women this week, treating all-female audiences to screenings of a uniquely feminine work of art and a chance to get to know the film’s director.
With a cast dominated by religious women and girls – many of them from the Chabad-Lubavitch run Beth Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. – “The Heart That Sings” hit theaters last year after [...]
Sunday, Feb. 26 @ 1:05pm
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Encore Screening by Popular Demand!!
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Cinematheque program says the movie creators ‘politely request that only women and girls attend the screening.’
By Tsafi Saar
Cinematheque Tel Aviv attempted to prevent men from attending screenings of the movie “The Heart that Sings,” according to a man who attempted to purchase a ticket to the film Sunday.
Dr. Yosef Algazi said the woman working at the box office told him the movie was for women only. According to the Cinematheque’s description of the movie in its program that [...]
By Sarah Trappler Spielman
Orthodox director Robin Garbose is at it again. First she made history four years ago with a red carpet premiere of her movie musical “A Light for Greytowers” in Los Angeles. Modestly clad Orthodox girls and women filled Paramount Studio’s lot at the Sherry Lansing Theater, many attending a movie for the first time.
Last week, during Hanukkah, Garbose again proved that Jewish religious art can prevail with the women-only premiere of her second film, “The Heart that [...]
By Robin Garbose
As an Orthodox woman – hassidic, even – it has been hard for me to watch the news and developments from Israel in recent weeks.
On one hand, Jewish law and traditions of female modesty are very important to me. Although I did not grow up in an observant family, I came to embrace the value of personal modesty as an adult. Especially in Southern California, where the popular culture glamorizes and profits from immodesty, I have found tzniut [...]
by Hannah Brown
Robin Garbose’s groundbreaking new film, ‘The Heart that Sings,’ is a movie musical created exclusively for women and girls.
Many directors like to think themselves unique, but no one except Robin Saex Garbose could utter the sentence, “My frumkeit deepened while I was directing episodes of America’s Most Wanted.”
Garbose is in here this week to present her latest film, The Heart That Sings, which is being shown at the 13th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque [...]
Big news! The Israel premiere of “The Heart that Sings” will be a part of the 13th Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, to be held at the Jerusalem Cinematheque from December 17-23, 2011. More details coming soon!
From our letter of invitation:
This annual event is an opportunity to explore the many and varied issues surrounding the question of Jewish identity, history, culture and religious practice. From the plethora of new films made each year, we select a handful that uncover little-known chapters [...]
by Sara Trappler Spielman
Robin Garbose, the Jewish director who earned headlines for her female-only screenings, is at it again, scheduling showings of her latest film in 11 American cities over the upcoming Passover holiday.
Crowds of fans turned up for the premiere of “The Heart That Sings” last month at the Jewish Children’s Museum, headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch youth organization Tzivos Hashem, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. They filled every last seat – a total of 700 – [...]