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Dream No More, an ambi-
tious documentary on
Israel's first 50 years, is,
indeed, a dream no more.
Nearly completed, the film has
been permanently shelved by the pro-
ducing Simon Wiesenthal Center, to
the considerable dismay of the docu-
mentary's chief creators.
There are
two different
diagnoses for
Dream's demise,
one advanced
by the film's
director-writer,
Mark Jonathan
Harris, and his
co-writer, Stu-
art Schoffman,
the other from
Rabbi Marvin
Hier, the
Wiesenthal
Center's dean
and founder,
and Richard
Trank, execu-
tive producer
for the center's
Moriah Films
division.
Harris and
Schoffi iian
believe that the
project was
scuttled because
American Jews
— and, by
extension, the
Wiesenthal
Center — are
unwilling to
accept a realistic
representation
of Israeli life and history, depicting the
•a
shadows along with the light.
To Hier and Trank, it's a simpler
matter of creative and conceptual dif-
ferences between producer and direc-
tor, a familiar Hollywood story. They
are now working on a new version of
the film. The Hier-Trank team, as co-
producers, have won Oscars for two
documentaries — Genocide in 1981
and this years The LongWay Home.
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Schoffman, an American-born
Israeli, went public with the controver-
sy this month through his regular col-
umn in the Jerusalem Report magazine.
Schoffman writes that he and Har-
ris decided to encapsulate the story of
Israel's statehood through a "mosaic"
of different voices, "precisely because
there are so many vigorously compet-
ing versions of the development, pre-
sent-day priorities and future
prospects of the Jewish state."
After initial
script
approval, vari-
ous revisions
and extensive
filming in
Israel, Moriah
"shut down
production in
June 1998, on
the grounds
that the film
wasn't work-
ing," writes
Schoffman.
At that
point, the
dates for a
series of "world
premieres" of
the film in
such presti-
gious venues as J
Washington's
Kennedy Cen-
ter and New
York's Radio
City Music
Hall had
already passed.
"On the
occasion of
Israel's 50th
birthday, the
relationship
between Israe
in
serious
need
and the Diaspora is
Schoffman
said
f
re-examination,"
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Tom Tugend writes for the Jewish
Journal of Greater Los Angeles and the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
,
in an interview.
"It would seem that a great many
American Jews find Israel too complex,
disturbing and problematic to confro7
head-on, leaving them with a set of
flawed alternatives: They can tune Israe
out or else cling to the pristine picture
Israel that no Israeli, whatever his or he
political coloration, can take seriously."
Harris largely agrees
b with his co-
writer
writer and brings considerable author
ty to the discussion as a veteran film-
maker and teacher. A professor at the
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