Events
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tickets by donationFebruary 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. -
tickets by donationFebruary 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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tickets by donationMarch 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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tickets by donationMarch 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. -
free but registration requiredMarch 29
1 PM LOS ANGELES • 4 PM NEW YORK
Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hatred and extremism across the generations.
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tickets by donationApril 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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tickets by donationApril 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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tickets by donationMay 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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free but registration requiredMay 31
11 AM LOS ANGELES • 2 PM NEW YORK
Julian Borger‘s family memoir I Seek a Kind Person — highlighted by The New York Times as one of the 100 must-read books of the year — is a gripping story of how the author’s Austrian Jewish father and other children were rescued through the placement of advertisements in British newspapers.
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tickets by donationJune 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.