• J-Films: Fiddler on the Roof Sing-A-Long Screening

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Let's gather together at the J for a cinematic dose of charm and tradition in Fiddler on the Roof?! We'll sing along with Tevye, a village milkman with a heart as big as his dreams, as he navigates the challenges of matchmaking and changing times with his family and neighbors. Whether it's your first time […]

  • NJJFF Pregame: Matchmaking

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Talkback following the film Director: Erez Tadmor 2022, Israel, 96 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $10 PURCHASE TICKETS A box office hit in Israel and at the 2024 NJJFF, Matchmaking tells the comic story of Moti Bernstein, the ideal yeshiva bucher and the perfect match for any Haredi Orthodox bride-to-be. While Moti […]

  • NJJFF Opening Night: Bad Shabbos

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Advance tickets are sold out, but we have a waitlist! Arrive 30 minutes early and add your name. We will sell tickets for all available seats 10 minutes before showtime. Post-screening Q&A with director/co-writer Daniel Robbins, co-writer Zack Weiner (in-person), and stars Meghan Leathers and Theo Taplitz (on Zoom)   Director: Daniel Robbins 2024, USA, […]

  • NJJFF: Running on Sand

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Talkback following the film   Director: Adar Shafran 2023, Israel, 104 minutes Hebrew, English, & Tigrinya with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Aumari, a young Eritrean refugee living in Israel, is about to be deported. At the airport, he is mistaken for Maccabi Netanya’s new star player from Nigeria. Despite having no […]

  • NJJFF: Of Dogs and Men

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director/co-writer Dani Rosenberg on Zoom   Director: Dani Rosenberg 2024, Israel, 82 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Filmed on-location in Kibbutz Nir Oz shortly after October 7, 2023, this sensitive drama follows a teenage girl as she returns to her devastated community to search for her […]

  • NJJFF: Unspoken

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director/writer Jeremy Borison on Zoom   Director: Jeremy Borison 2024, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Noam, a closeted Orthodox teenager, discovers a love letter written to his grandfather by another man before WWII. He sets out to find the letter’s writer under […]

  • NJJFF: The Spoils

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with Janet Cohen Mandel, arts educator and frequent speaker at JCC MetroWest   Director: Jamie Kastner 2024, Canada, 104 minutes English, German with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS A series of failed attempts by the city of Düsseldorf to honor German-Jewish art dealer, Max Stern, who barely escaped the war, […]

  • NJJFF: Come Closer

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    A pre-recorded Q&A with director/writer Tom Nesher will follow the film   Director: Tom Nesher 2024, Israel, 107 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS When her beloved younger brother, Nati, is suddenly killed in a car accident, Eden discovers he had a secret girlfriend, Maya. Grieving his loss and reeling […]

  • NJJFF: Diane Warren: Relentless

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director Bess Kargman on Zoom   Director: Bess Kargman 2025, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Diane Warren is one of the most prolific songwriters of all time, with a four-decade track record of writing mega-hits for superstar performers (“If I Could Turn Back Time,” […]

  • NJJFF: Shorts Program

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Join us for a globetrotting program of diverse and engaging short films! All are presented with English subtitles. Total running time: 110 minutes   Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Goodman — USA, Ben Rosenbach, 14 minutes, English Two strangers meet in Central Park and strike up a conversation. The Cave Synagogue — USA, Peter Decherney, […]

  • NJJFF Spotlight: Matchmaking 2

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Talkback following the film   Director: Erez Tadmor 2024, Israel, 100 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $18 PURCHASE TICKETS Picking up where sold-out 2024 NJJFF hit Matchmaking left off, Moti and Nechama navigate their next steps, while his friend, Baruch (Maor Schweitzer, also seen at the 2024 NJJFF in Arugam […]

  • NJJFF: The Ring

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with lead actress Joy Rieger on Zoom   Director: Adir Miller, Doron Paz, Yoav Paz 2024, Israel, 110 minutes Hebrew, English, and Hungarian with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Arnon (Adir Miller, The Monkey House and The Matchmaker) is a religious man who shares a strong bond with […]

  • NJJFF: Documentary Double Feature: Jerry’s Last Mission & The Path Forward

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Mike Yellin and Julie Cohen   Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Jerry’s Last Mission Director: Louisa Merino 2021, USA, 58 minutes English and Japanese with English subtitles Documentary Newark-born fighter pilot Jerry Yellin flew combat missions on Iwo Jima and over Japan, including the last combat mission of World War II. […]

  • NJJFF: Hemda

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Talkback following the film   Director: Shemi Zarhin 2024, Israel, 125 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS In this gentle drama by festival-favorite Israeli filmmaker and novelist Shemi Zarhin (The World Is Funny, The Kind Words), a long-married couple finds their bond tested by the dual returns of their teenaged […]

  • NJJFF: Colleyville

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Dani Menkin and Colleyville hostage crisis survivor Jeff Cohen on Zoom   Director: Dani Menkin 2024, USA, 80 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS On January 15, 2022, an armed man entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during a livestreamed Shabbat service and held Rabbi […]

  • NJJFF Spotlight: Sabbath Queen

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Sandi DuBowski   Director: Sandi DuBowski 2024, USA, 105 minutes English, Hebrew, & Yiddish with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $18 PURCHASE TICKETS Filmed over 21 years by Sandi DuBowski, director of the groundbreaking documentary Trembling Before G-d, this absorbing documentary follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir […]

  • NJJFF: Mazel Tov

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Talkback following the film   Director: Adrián Suar 2024, Argentina, 97 minutes Spanish with English subtitles Feature NJ Premiere! Ticket Price: $15 PURCHASE TICKETS Acclaimed Jewish-Argentinian actor and filmmaker Adrián Suar directs, produces, and stars in this comedy about a Jewish family with a lot of love for each other and an equal number of […]

  • NJJFF Closing Film: Midas Man

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Advance tickets are sold out, but we have a waitlist! Arrive 30 minutes early and add your name. We will sell tickets for all available seats 10 minutes before showtime. Post-screening concert with live Beatles cover band   Director: Joe Stephenson 2024, UK, 112 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18   This […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: The Floaters

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers!  Opening Night Director: Rachel Israel 2025, USA, 101 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18 BUY TICKETS   Just fired from her rock band, Nomi (Jackie Tohn, Nobody Wants This) takes a last-resort job from her best friend Mara (Sarah Podemski, Reservation Dogs), who is now the director of their Jewish sleepaway camp. As Mara contends with all manner of […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: Once Upon My Mother

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Director: Ken Scott 2025, France and Canada, 102 minutes French with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family of Mizrahi Jews in France. He is born with a clubfoot that prevents him from standing and walking, but Esther is determined that her son learns to walk and leads an extraordinary life. With a […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director Ilana Trachtman on Zoom Director: Ilana Trachtman 2024, USA, 89 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round tells the little-known story of the first organized interracial Civil Rights protest in U.S. history. Five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960 and their arrests made headlines. When the progressive Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: From Darkness to Light

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with Jerry Lewis’ former archivist Bob Furmanek, Founder & CEO of 3-D Film Archive  Spotlight Film Directors: Eric Friedler & Michael Lurie 2024, USA & Germany, 108 minutes English and French with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   In 1972, movie legend and comedy auteur Jerry Lewis gambled his career and his own […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: Looking Up

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director Elena Neuman on Zoom Director: Elena Neuman 2025, USA, 71 minutes English with English subtitles Documentary Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Looking Up tells the inspiring story of Eitan Armon, a young man battling progressive blindness from Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare genetic condition. Diagnosed while serving in the IDF, Eitan refuses to let his 95% vision loss […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: Fantasy Life

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Matthew Shear on Zoom  Director: Matthew Shear 2025, USA, 91 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   After losing his paralegal job and suffering a panic attack, 30-something Sam (writer-director Matthew Shear) stumbles into an unexpected role: babysitting his psychiatrist’s three lively granddaughters. What begins as a one-time favor turns into […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: Shorts Program

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Total running time: 83 minutes Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   The Wall - Israel, Dovi Rozenberg, 13 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles A serio-comic analysis of the 6-foot wall climb that is a universal aspect of IDF training. The Whistle - USA, Greg Franklin, 7 minutes, No dialogue Based on a true story, a Jewish doctor in 1938 Germany […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: 31 Candles

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Jonah Feingold  Spotlight Film Director: Jonah Feingold 2025, USA, 90 minutes English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $18 Buy Tickets   Leo (writer-director Jonah Feingold) decides to have his Bar Mitzvah at the age of 31, recruiting his childhood crush, Eva (Sarah Coffey, in a breakout performance) as his tutor. His ambitious Mitzvah Project is a journey of self-knowledge […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: The Property

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with director/co-writer Dana Modan on Zoom  Director: Dana Modan 2024, Israel, 110 minutes Hebrew, Polish, and English with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Regina and her granddaughter Mika travel from Israel to Poland to reclaim their family property seized during World War II, and their quest quickly unravels. As Mika finds […]

  • Roesch NJJFF: The Sea

    JCC MetroWest | Maurice Levin Theater 760 Northfield Ave, West Orange, NJ, United States

    Post-screening Q&A with writer-director Shai Carmeli-Pollak on Zoom  Director: Shai Carmeli-Pollak 2025, Israel, 93 minutes Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles Feature Ticket Price: $15 Buy Tickets   Khaled (Mohamed Ghazawi, in his first role), a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, has to miss his school trip to the beach – the first time he would have seen the Mediterranean. Disappointed and […]