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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel fled Nazi Germany and became an authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America. His book, The Prophets, inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. to invite him to take a role in the Civil Rights Movement. Heschel was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, an advocate for Soviet Jewry and a pioneer of interfaith dialogue. Join the filmmaker Martin Doblmeier and Heschel’s biographer Rabbi Shai Held, for a riveting film-and-discussion program moderated by Dr. Shulamit Reinharz. (more…)
The Spanish island of Mallorca (or Majorca) has a secret history — a group of families who have been discriminated against for centuries because their surnames connect them to a once-suppressed Jewish heritage. Some members of these families have been inspired to return to the faith of their ancestors. American Jewish filmmaker Dani Rotstein tells their story. (more…)
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The Comité de Défense des Juifs was established in Brussels, Belgium in 1942 in order to protect the Jewish population from Nazi persecution. They assisted and hid approximately 10,000 adults and 3000 children, from 1942-44. Eighteen members of this group were honored in 2018 by B’nai B’rith International with the Jewish Rescuer Citation. See a touching film about this heroic group and their legacy. (more…)
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In this touching program, author Peter Hellman tells the story of the Holocaust rescuer Leokadia Jaromirska, Righteous Among the Nations. She rescued Shifra, a Jewish baby girl who had been abandoned near the fence of a convent in Poland and sheltered her during the war, sometimes in very perilous circumstances. Today, Shifra Kotzer is in her 80s and lives in Israel. Before the program, see the touching film The Courage to Care, narrated by Elie Wiesel, about rescue throughout Europe during the Holocaust. (more…)
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A new documentary film Between the Stone and the Flower: The Duality of the Conversos chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Genie Milgrom as she embarks on a decades-long quest to uncover her Jewish lineage. This fascinating tale follows Genie’s relentless pursuit of the ancestral “breadcrumbs” left behind by her forebears. The result is a captivating film that offers deep insights into the history of the Jewish people. (more…)
In the new award-winning documentary film Fioretta, famed attorney Randy Schoenberg embarks with his son Joey on a journey across Europe in a quest to find their family roots. Schoenberg, whose success in forcing Austria to return five Nazi-looted paintings to their rightful Jewish owner was told in the Academy Award-winning film Woman in Gold, will be joining us in person and answering your questions.
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