Sara Trappler-Spielman

When eight-year-old Klara, standing beside her father on the German MS S. Louis ocean-liner, sees Miami with her bare eyes, her father sighs and says, “So near, and yet so far.”

Rivka Eilfort is an 18-year-old chassidic singer and songwriter, whose parents serve as Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in southern California. She sings deep, mystical lyrics while playing the guitar like a natural star.

One of the most ancient tales from the Torah has been illuminated in the newest style of CGI animation.

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.

At a table surrounded by swaying bearded Chasids singing a wordless melody sits a rabbi dressed in white, his long white beard and white head covering completing the ensemble.

With his foot up in bed after surgery from a broken ankle, Rabbi Avraham Kivelevitz, a teacher at SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y., contemplated how to reach students taking his senior elective Kabbalah course.

The work of Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth director at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, N.J., is a fusion of modern day objects with Jewish values.

Jackie Stern, a principal at a Chabad-Lubavitch school in Los Angeles, has gone from hippie to feminist to a five-time bride without ever divorcing her husband.

With an all-female cast, save for three parts played by men, "A Light for Greytowers" will be shown to only female audiences. It tells the story of a Jewish girl who fights an orphanage to be able to practice her religion.

Michoel Muchnik, who just opened a gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., tells of artistic suggestions given him by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.