TICKETSMonday, Nov. 7, 3 pm – The themes of revenge, justice, and morality stoke this suspenseful drama depicting the dangerous secret plan by a group Jewish resistance fighters and Holocaust survivors known as “The Avengers” to poison Germany’s water system in 1945. Based on the book “Vengeance and Retribution are Mine” by Israeli historian Dina …

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TICKETSTuesday, Nov. 8, 3 pm – In this disquieting psychological thriller, an assimilated Parisian family sells their basement unit, unwittingly welcoming a Holocaust denier into their life, turning it upside down. The intruder ultimately challenges their assumptions about anti-Semitism in France and forces them to confront their tenuous Jewish identity. Easily read as a metaphor …

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TICKETSTuesday, Nov. 8, 6:30 pm  – No good deed goes unpunished when a liberal gay couple moves into an underprivileged Tel Aviv neighborhood to take advantage of low rent. When they plant a tree on their street, they are confronted by unpleasant social realities and find their values and best intentions put to the test. …

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TICKETSWednesday, Nov. 9, 3 pm – The exploits of a Jewish Ukrainian war hero, the last of the great partisans, are portrayed with incredible force in this haunting WW II drama honoring his legacy and mourning his sacrifices. An interview with Berenshtein, an old man living humbly in Israel, is intertwined with the feature film …

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TICKETSWednesday, Nov. 9, 6:30 pm  – Fred Stein’s images of 1930s Paris and 1940s New York, as well as his portraits of luminaries such as Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, are well-known, but the artist himself was all but forgotten when his son Peter, a cinematographer of note, set about to recapture rightful acclaim for …

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TICKETSThursday, November 10, at noon - No charge; reservations required Peter Stein will discuss his three-decade career as a Hollywood cinematographer, discuss and share clips from such films as "Pet Sematary" and "Rueben, Rueben," and elucidate the art of cinematography. The director of "Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein," which will be shown …

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TICKETSThursday, Nov. 10, 3 pm  – The story of the Jewish family that owned and carefully preserved Monticello for far longer than Thomas Jefferson or his descendants was erased from history by prejudice. This enlightening and disquieting documentary tackles a complicated legacy of politics, slavery, and anti-Semitism in the American South, finally acknowledging the illustrious …

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TICKETSThursday, Nov. 10, 6:30 pm – A young Kurdish boy living on the Syrian/Turkish border in the 1980s, close friends with his Jewish neighbors, discovers the absurdity of war and the cruelty of hatred in this affectionate autobiographical feature. Encountering the edicts of a dictatorship he cannot fathom, our young hero clings to his humanity …

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