Circumcize Me

Circumcize Me

Circumcize Me is a 2008 movie about the American-born, Israeli comedian Yisrael Campbell. [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330927315&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]

Produced by Matthew Kalman, foreign news correspondent in Jerusalem for USA Today, Canada's Globe & Mail and other newspapers, and David Blumenfeld, an Israel -based photographer for was snapping for Time, Newsweek and other publications. [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330927315&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]

The film, originally screened under the title “It's Not in Heaven: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell,” [ http://www.thestar.com/article/420610] is about a Catholic convert to Judaism who has become a stand-up comedy star in Israel. Campbell ‘s routine riffs on the fact that he converted to Judaism three times, once Reform, once Conservative and once Orthodox. [” Jewish comedy not just a punchline,” Michael Posner, Globe and Mail, May 2, 2008]

The Economist calls the film “hilarious and moving.” [”Belonging in Israel,” Apr 24th 2008, TEL AVIV, The Economist , [http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11081863] ]

The film has been screened in Toronto and Jerusalem, and is scheduled to be released in the United States autumn 2008. [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330927315&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull]

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