Jewish Daily Forward

This publication is prejudiced against non Jews. They wrote an article about Jewish Film Festivals and selected the SFJFF as the top one, I wrote the comment below and within seconds they censored it and deleted it. I asked them why they deleted it but the have declined to give a reason for their censorship.
«The SFJFF discriminates against non Jewish filmmakers. That would fine with me, though still perhaps illegal, if they were not taking $ 50,000 per year from the city of San Francisco and thus agreeing in writing not to discriminate. I made a short documentary film for a cinema class at my community college. It won first place in the statewide California Community College competition and screened at four festivals, including the Mill Valley Film Festival, one of the top ten festivals in the USA. It is called Gold Violin: bow of death, and is about my good friend, virtuoso violinist Joseph Gold. When I made the film I did not set out to make a «Jewish» film. I only realized after making the film that everyone save one person mentioned in the film is/​was Jewish, so I submitted it to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. They rejected it. Fine, my two short films have been rejected many times and only screened in 7 festivals out if perhaps 40 submissions, but I am happy with that. The problem is the feedback email the SFJFF sent me admitted the film was «very well made» but said with the possible exception of Mr. Gold, the film had no Jewish content. First, yes, surprise, surprise, Mr. Gold, the man whose parents suggested he learn the violin and who studied at USC’s Thornton School of Music in Santa Monica is Jewish. So was his father, Jascha Heifetz — his violin teacher at USC, Eduard Remenyi –solo violinist to Queen Victoria and Emperor Franz Joseph and original owner of the bow of death Mr. Gold now performs with, and the deli Joseph worked at while young, all of which he talks about in the film. Unfortunately, it does not have any klezmer music as all the music was performed by Mr. Gold. My film documented the experience of a student of Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky a year before Peter Rosen’s film, God’s Fiddler, did. You can judge for yourself whether my film indeed has Jewish content on Youtube at
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The Forward (Forverts), commonly known as The Jewish Daily Forward, was first published in 1897 as Yiddish-​language daily issued by dissidents from the Socialist Labor Party of Daniel DeLeon. As a privately-​owned publication loosely affiliated with the Socialist Party of America, Forverts achieved massive circulation and considerable political influence during the first three decades of the 20^th Century. The publication still exists as a weekly news magazine in parallel Yiddish (Yiddish Forward) and English editions (The Jewish Daily Forward).
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