10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Join us as we screen a movie with discussion following. Choose just one or come for all three! Light snacks will be served.
October 6 - Live & Become
Shlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him "Go, live, and become," as he leaves her to board the plane. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries.
October 20- No Place on Earth
Filmmaker Janet Tobias traces the harrowing tale of 38 Ukranian Jews who survived the Holocaust by fleeing into caves for 18 months. Scavenging for food and water while constructing escape routes, the desperate survivors bide their time in the unforgiving environment, awaiting liberation.
November 3 - Half the Kingdom (documentary / special speaker)
Seven women from Canada, Israel, and the US strive to find common ground between religious and cultural tradition and contemporary feminist principles. Focusing on the movement of women from observers to active participants - including when a group of women came together to pray at the Western Wall in 1988 - the film addresses issues of feminism, religious pluralism, civil rights, and the struggle for self-definition.
