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How Film Helps Us Understand Grief

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Everyone goes through grief at some point, but it is hard to describe when you are in the middle of it. Grief can feel sharp and overwhelming, or it can be quiet, slow, and confusing. Sometimes it changes everything right away, and other times it quietly shapes how you move through life without others noticing. That is why film is such a powerful way to explore grief. The best movies about loss do not try to make it simple or offer easy answers. Instead, they show that grief is about more than just death. It is about memory, guilt, love, resentment, longing, and the challenge of moving forward after a life-changing event. In this blog, we will look at how film can help people process grief and how art can express feelings that are hard to put into words. This is what makes Train Dreams and Hamnet so powerful. These two films are very different, but both focus on what happens after loss changes a person’s life. They do not rely on dramatic speeches or easy resolutions. Instead, they...

Passover 2025

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With Spring comes Passover , when Jewish families gather everywhere to remember a journey of freedom. It is a major Jewish holiday and a time to remember and meditate on the story of Exodus.  Known as Pesach in Hebrew, Passover is one of the most widely observed holidays in the Jewish tradition. It marks the biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. For many observant Jews, a central part of preparing for Passover involves clearing their homes of all leavened foods, known as chametz , and refraining from eating them for the entire holiday week. In place of bread, they eat matzo , an unleavened flatbread symbolic of the Passover story. Tradition holds that the Israelites had to leave Egypt so quickly that there wasn’t enough time for their dough to rise. Another interpretation suggests matzo was simply more practical for a long journey through the desert, being lighter and easier to transport than typical bread. In 2025, Passover begins at sundown on April 12...

Back to School: Exploring the Evolution of Teen Drama from Classic Films to Modern Tropes

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It’s back to school time ! Even if your high school days are far behind you, and whether you look back at your time in high school with fondness or dread, high school is an inevitable experience that most adolescents face worldwide. The American high school experience has been dramatized and portrayed in films and TV shows since the 1960s. This week’s blog will dive into the “Teen Drama” genre in honor of the confusing, often dramatic, and sometimes joyful period of our lives.  A teen drama is a type of drama series that centers on teenage and young adult characters. The TV show Never Too Young , aired in 1965, is often regarded as the first teen drama explicitly aimed at a teenage audience. Set in Malibu, the series depicted the lives of affluent high school students and their parents, featuring Tony Dow and Tommy Rettig in leading roles. Although, the genre gained significant popularity in the early 1990s, particularly with the success of the Fox series Beverly Hills, 90210 ....