TICKETSSaturday, 11/05/22, 6:00pm - Join comics creator R. Alan Brooks, along with artists Kevin Caron and Jolyon Yates, to celebrate his new graphic novel, Anguish Garden Book II! The 2nd book in the series, this stylized dramatic graphic novel deals with themes of how people become radicalized, and how to avoid it. Through her conflict …
TICKETSSunday, Nov. 6, Noon - Beloved sportscaster Marty Glickman, a former athlete whose dreams were dashed by prejudice at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, went on to forge a remarkably long and influential career in sports. This illuminating documentary pays affectionate tribute to a groundbreaking sportscaster and former world-class athlete who ran alongside Jesse Owens. Produced …
TICKETSSunday, Nov. 6, 2:30 pm – Driven by desperation, an ingenious Jewish concentration camp prisoner from Belgium poses as Iranian to avoid death, pretending to speak and teach Farsi to the eccentric Commandant who holds his life in his hands. The winner of multiple film festival awards, this harrowing tale of survival is tinged with …
TICKETSSunday, Nov. 6, 6:30 pm - When a German biologist visiting Israel and an Israeli bar owner fall in love and plan to marry, sparks fly as their families struggle to plan an interfaith lesbian wedding. The course of true love never runs smooth, but here Middle East politics and the shadow of the Holocaust …
TICKETSMonday, Nov. 7, 12 pm & 6:30 pm – This bitingly witty New York story unfolds during one extraordinary day in the life of a distinguished, complicated, close-knit family whose world is suddenly upended by dramatic personal revelations. This dialogue-rich family drama features Richard Kind (“A Serious Man,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) as the long-absent patriarch …
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 …
TICKETSTuesday, Nov. 8, 12 PM & Friday, Nov. 11, 3 pm – Two thirty-something Israelis go on a blind date and divulge way too much in this bracingly unconventional romantic comedy that deals with the nature of attraction itself. Directed by and starring superstar comic Guri Alfi (“New Jew”), the film focuses on the embarrassing …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
TICKETSFriday, Nov. 4, 2:30 pm & Friday, Nov 11, Noon - Programmer Judith Dack returns with a selection of award-winning short subjects depicting the Jewish experience from multiple perspectives. The Shorts include: Newlywed’s Guide to Physical Intimacy An explicit sex manual from the Rabbi comes in handy on the wedding night for an Orthodox couple …
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