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  • Lioness — Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

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    January 18

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Golda’s War Diaries explores the secrets revealed in newly declassified files concerning Prime Minister Golda Meir’s time in office, and particularly her handling of the Yom Kippur War. The result is an intimate portrait of a leader in crisis yet very much in charge.

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  • Franceska Mann — Ballerina and Holocaust Hero

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    January 25

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Franceska Mann was a Polish Jewish ballet dancer who killed a Nazi guard at Auschwitz and became an instant legend. Commanded to undress on her way to the gas chamber, she performed a striptease dance for the Nazi guard, seized his gun, and shot him dead. Her brazen act inspired an uprising among other prisoners. The film Francesca, directed by Lina Chaplin, tells her inspiring story.

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  • Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil

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    February 8

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Hannah Arendt came of age in Germany as Hitler rose to power, before escaping to the United States as a Jewish refugee. Through her unflinching capacity to demand attention to facts and reality, Arendt made groundbreaking insights into totalitarianism, the refugee crisis and the human condition. She was a famous witness to the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

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  • Operation Solomon — The Rescue of Ethiopia’s Jews

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    February 22

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Yerusalem is an Israeli documentary that tells the story of the Ethiopian “Beta Israel” Jewish community and their journey to Israel, focusing on the “Operation Solomon” and “Operation Moses” airlifts of the 1980s and 1990s. The film explores the challenges and discrimination faced by Ethiopian Jews in Israel, particularly regarding their acceptance and integration into Israeli society, despite their long history of Jewish observance.

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  • Henrietta Szold — Her Mission Was Saving Lives

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    March 1

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Henrietta Szold is among the most influential American Jewish women who ever lived. She founded Hadassah in 1912, a Jewish women’s service organization, that inspired hundreds of thousands of Jewish women to invest their energies in a cause that transcended their own personal lives. She also helped organize Youth Aliyah, which successfully rescued thousands of Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during the 1930s and transported them to Palestine. The new film, Labors of Love, tells her inspiring story.

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  • Khaled — The Tunisian Schindler

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    March 15

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Khaled is the story of Khaled Abdul Wahab, an Arab Muslim photographer who saved twenty-four Jews during the Nazi occupation of Tunisia. Learn about this remarkable man and his story and meet the son of one of the people that he saved.

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  • Raoul Wallenberg Reconsidered

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    April 12

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction tells the heroic story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them Swedish protective documents, opening protected safe houses, and more. The big mystery of what happened to Wallenberg following his arrest in 1945 by the Soviet liberators of Hungary is at the center of the film.

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  • Herzl Remembered — “If you will it, it is no dream!”

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    April 26

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    Theodor Herzl was a lawyer, journalist, playwright, and political activist. He witnessed the rise in antisemitism in the late 19th century and was inspired to build a safe haven for the Jewish community. The new documentary Theodor Herzl: The Man Behind Israel explores Herzl’s legacy, the formation of the State of Israel and past and ongoing political conflicts.

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  • The Rescue of Sigmund Freud

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    May 17

    11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK

    The film Outsider. Freud. follows Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, from his earliest experiences with antisemitism, through his meteoric career, and ending with his escape after the Anschluss from Vienna to London, where he spent the final months of his life.

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  • Partisan Women Heroes

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    June 14

    1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK

    See the award-winning film Four Winters, about partisan heroes of World War II, and then tune into the discussion, which will focus on the stories of partisan women heroes such as Faye Schulman, Chaya Palevsky, Gertrude Boyarski and others.

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