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J-Films: Back to the Future
JCC MetroWest | TUE, NOV 12, 2024J-Films and The Center for Adult Enrichment Present Back to the Future Celebrate the holidays with your JCC community and enjoy a classic adventure on the big screen! Doc Brown’s…
read more Adult Enrichment, jfilms, NJJFFCommemorating October 7, 2023 – Part 2 – Short Films Program
JCC MetroWest | TUE, SEP 24, 2024Tattooed for Life (30 mins, Hebrew with English subtitles) Liraz Uliel survived the massacre at the Nova festival on October 7, but lost her partner and many close friends. She…
read more jfilmsCommemorating October 7, 2023 – Part 1 – Documentary Screening
JCC MetroWest | TUE, SEP 24, 2024Torn, a new documentary by Israeli-born, New York-based filmmaker Nimrod Shapira delves into the controversy surrounding the “Kidnapped from Israel” poster campaign, a grassroots effort to raise awareness about the 240…
read more jfilmsJFilms Presents: Lights, Latkes, and Laughter: Yaniv Screening and Card Play Club
JCC MetroWest | MON, SEP 23, 2024When the theater club at a Bronx public high school is defunded, their dedicated teacher hatches a scheme to pay for it: with the help of a fellow teacher (who…
read more jfilmsJ-Films Presents: The Death of Stalin
JCC MetroWest | MON, AUG 26, 2024With democracy on our minds, J-Films presents one of the best satires of the 21st Century, a mostly-true story of dictatorship run amok. In March of 1953, Joseph Stalin’s brutal…
read more gaelen, jfilmsLife Long Learning: Ephraim Kishon
JCC MetroWest | FRI, JUL 19, 2024Ephraim Kishon: Father of Israeli Comedy with Stuart Weinstock From his roots in Hungary, where he survived the Holocaust and Communist repression, to the peak of the Israeli arts…
read more Adult Enrichment, jfilms, life long learningJ-Films: Legend of Destruction
JCC MetroWest | TUE, JUL 09, 2024Exclusive US screening of the original Israeli version! Comments and a Q&A after the film with Dr. Seth Schwartz, the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization at Columbia…
read more jfilmsJ-Films Lecture: Steven Spielberg’s Munich: a Reappraisal of the 2005 Film for Where We Are Now
JCC MetroWest | TUE, JUL 09, 2024Join your JCC community for a lecture and discussion with JCC MetroWest’s Director of Film Programming, Stuart Weinstock, about a film that is “difficult” in the best possible sense. The…
read more jfilmsJ-Films: The Troupe with Writer-Director Avi Nesher
JCC MetroWest | MON, APR 15, 2024Celebrate Yom Haatzmaut at the J with a classic Israeli film and the chance to meet legendary filmmaker Avi Nesher! Free admission with registration (Advance registration preferred) The Troupe,…
read more jfilmsLife Long Learning: Humor as Resistance in Holocaust Cinema
JCC MetroWest | TUE, JAN 09, 2024Humor as Resistance in Holocaust Cinema with Stuart Weinstock When does comedy serve a higher purpose than entertainment? Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust have utilized humor to attack…
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