Wednesday, August 23, 2023, 7 - 9 PM @ Cinemark Buckland Hills

A thriller that chronicles the high-stake responsibilities and controversial decisions that Meir – also known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel’ – faced during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

Saturday, October 14, 2023, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

Bella! tells the story of Bella Abzug, who first rose to prominence as a scrappy grassroots activist in New York's West Village, and then went on to champion everything from an end to the Vietnam War to the advancement of LGBTQ rights.

Saturday, October 14, 2023, 9 - 9:30 PM

Immediately following Bella! , stay for a conversation between Bella Abzug's daughter, Liz, and Rabbi Debra Cantor.

Sunday, October 15, 2023, 1 - 3 PM @ Mandell JCC

In A Pocketful of Miracles: A Tale of Two Siblings, filmmaker and Berlin born Aviva Kempner chronicles her mother Hanka and uncle Dudek Ciesla’s lives before and during World War II. From their idyllic Jewish upbringing in Poland through their survival of the Holocaust to their tearful reunion after the war, this moving documentary follows the incredible story of these loving siblings and the incredible lives they built in America as painter Helen Ciesla Covensky and businessman and philanth...

Sunday, October 15, 2023, 3 - 3:30 PM

Immediately following Pocketful of Miracles , join us for a discussion with Aviva Kempner (filmmaker and daugheter of Helen Ciesla Covensky), Cheryl Chase, and Arnold Chase (children of David Chase). The conversation will be moderated by Stuart Abrams.

Saturday, November 11, 2023, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

A 2020 English-French language comedy film directed by Marco Carmel, starring Angel Bonanni, Moris Cohen and Nelly Tagar.

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 10 AM - 12 PM @ Mandell JCC

Enjoy some breakfast as you watch My Father's Secrets.

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 10 AM - 12 PM @ Mandell JCC

Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that as a young man he was an adventurer, a pirate or a treasure hunter.

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 3:30 - 4 PM @ Mandell JCC

Sunday, November 12, 2023, 4 - 4:30 PM @ Mandell JCC

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

He was born Jerome Silberman to an assimilated Milwaukee Jewish family, and his childhood buddies called him Jerry—but the world would come to know Gene Wilder (1933 – 2016) as an endearing comic genius through an extraordinary string of film roles that seem to grow deeper, funnier and more humane with time: from the timid Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks’ The Producers to the strange and magical title role in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , from his inspired on-screen partnership with Richar...

Saturday, December 16, 2023, 9 - 9:30 PM @ Mandell JCC

Immediately following Remembering Gene Wilder , a chance to converse with the director.

Sunday, December 17, 2023, 3 - 5 PM @ Mandell JCC

In the heart of Tel-Aviv's Neve Tzedek neighborhood stands an old house that operates as a shelter for youth from broken homes. Jackie, a young man who finds himself running the shelter after the sudden death of its legendary founder, discovers that the old house actually belongs to the municipality of Tel-Aviv, and has been bought by a businessman who's planning to demolish the house and build a boutique hotel on its ruins. Together with the house's at-risk youth, and with the help of a social...

Sunday, December 17, 2023, 5 - 7 PM @ MJCC Innovation Center

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one d...

Sunday, December 17, 2023, 5 - 7 PM @ MJCC Innovation Center

An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one d...

Saturday, January 20, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

Marie was just two years old when her mother gifted her to her infertile sister, a common Moroccan custom at the time. 40 years later, Marie travels from France to Israel, where her family now lives, to marry her one true love. Her warm and excited family is preparing for the custom of "Seven Blessings"- a week of festive meals in honor of the bride. But Marie has also come to open old wounds. Between intoxicating family meals, secrets and lies are revealed. Marie is desperate for an apology alt...

Sunday, January 21, 2024, 1 - 3 PM @ Mandell JCC

Holocaust denial began with the Nazis — including a top-secret death camp called Sobibor. In a dramatic tale of detection, archeologists Yoram Haimi (Israel), Wojciech Mazurek (Poland) and Ivar Schute (Netherlands) launch a 10-year investigation to unearth evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a genocide in a remote forest in Poland. To hide the murder of 250,000 Jews, a daring revolt, and mass escape, the Nazis destroyed all trace of the camp. Now, archeologists have uncovered what the Nazis...

Saturday, February 17, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Real Art Ways

Chelly Wilson was a Christmas-celebrating Jewish grandma, a lesbian who married men, and a proud owner of porn theaters in 1970s NYC. Through audio recordings, Chelly recounts her pre-war escape from Greece up through her unlikely motherhood and rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street. Fascinating WWII and NYC archival footage illustrate this entertaining story of a family and its matriarch, a truly unique character with chutzpah in spades.

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 1 - 3 PM @ Mandell JCC

19-year-old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help 12 Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 2 - 4 PM @ MJCC Innovation Center

He was born Jerome Silberman to an assimilated Milwaukee Jewish family, and his childhood buddies called him Jerry—but the world would come to know Gene Wilder (1933 – 2016) as an endearing comic genius through an extraordinary string of film roles that seem to grow deeper, funnier and more humane with time: from the timid Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks’ The Producers to the strange and magical title role in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , from his inspired on-screen partnership with Richar...

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

A few weeks before the opening of the Eichmann trial, transcripts of recorded conversations that Adolf Eichmann had with a Dutch Nazi journalist, Willem Sassen, were mysteriously handed over to prosecutor Gideon Hausner. The conversations were held a few years before Eichmann was brought to Israel by the Mossad. During the trial, Eichmann tried to convince that he was only a bureaucrat who carried out orders, but in the transcripts, Eichmann was found boasting and proud of his significant role...

Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois and routine event takes a turn as they start playing a game that will change their lives: every message, call or alert they receive on their phone is exposed to the eyes of everyone. Betrayals, lies, secrets and accounts that are 20 years old rise and float to the surface and question the long-standing friendships and internal relationships in it.

Sunday, March 3, 2024, 1 - 3 PM @ MJCC Innovation Center

Stunning, iconic, heartbreaking and yet life-affirming at once, Roman Vishniac's photographs of Eastern European Jews in the 1930s are imprinted in our collective memory as the last visual records of a world wiped out in the Holocaust. The story of their creation, and of the fascinating man behind them, has never been told. Until now.

Sunday, March 3, 2024, 5 - 7 PM @ Mandell JCC

The Catskills is a humorous and nostalgic tribute to what became affectionately known as the Borscht Belt. Stand-up comedians share their best shtick while former waiters, entertainers, and dance instructors recount tales of the family-run resorts and bungalows that inspired films like Dirty Dancing. Featuring home movies, publicity photos, postcards, and menus, this time capsule provides an overview of Jewish immigration to New York going back to the early twentieth century. Director Lex Gille...

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Cinemark Buckland Hills

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Thursday, March 28, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Parkade Manchester

The Catskills is a humorous and nostalgic tribute to what became affectionately known as the Borscht Belt. Stand-up comedians share their best shtick while former waiters, entertainers, and dance instructors recount tales of the family-run resorts and bungalows that inspired films like Dirty Dancing. Featuring home movies, publicity photos, postcards, and menus, this time capsule provides an overview of Jewish immigration to New York going back to the early twentieth century. Director Lex Gille...

Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7 - 9 PM @ Mandell JCC

999 reveals the hidden story about 999 unmarried, young Jewish women registered for government service in a supposed shoe factory and ended up in Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they chosen? How did a handful survive over three years in the death camps? Among them was Rena Kornreich, whose family will be in attendance at the screening. Rena, number 1716, arrived at Auschwitz in March 1942. Three years and forty one days later, she was liberated from Neustadt Glewe....