Israel 2025 | Director: Shai Carmeli-Pollak | Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 minutes Drama Khaled, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village, gets the chance to fulfill a dream and see the sea for the first time in his life on a school trip. But when they reach a military checkpoint, the...
Israel 2025 | Director: Erez Tadmor | Hebrew with English subtitles | 96 minutes Drama This powerful drama is set in early-1950’s Israel, where Eva, a beautiful seamstress, arrives with her daughter in a working-class neighbourhood largely made up of former partisan fighters and young Holocaust survivors. Shalom Gottlieb, a former partisan leader and current...
Israel/USA 2024 | Director: Yael Melamede | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 81 minutes Documentary Ada Karmi Melamede is one of the most accomplished architects of her generation in her native Israel and abroad. A true pioneer who, like many successful working mothers of her time, was forced to make impossible choices, Ada...
USA 2025 | Director: James L. Freedman | English | 93 minutes Documentary This entertaining and touching documentary pays tribute to the extraordinary life and career of a man who was not only a talented actor-comedian and broadcast personality, but also a tireless social activist. A master of dry wit and deadpan delivery, Charles Grodin...
USA 2025 | Directors: Perri Peltz & Matthew O’Neill | English | 80 minutes Drama The Last Twins is the never-before-told story of an unsung hero of the Holocaust, Erno “Zvi” Spiegel, who risked everything to save dozens of young twins from almost certain death at Auschwitz. Under the shadow of Dr. Josef Mengele’s horrific...
Ready to go deeper in your Jewish learning? Judaism 201 is an adult education series with Rabbi Russ designed for those who want to explore the richness of our heritage and religious tradition. This year’s program will guide learners through some of Judaism’s most fascinating texts and practices, including Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Formation),...
Join us for our monthly Hazak Lunch & Learn, featuring guest speakers on a variety of engaging topics. Enjoy a delicious meal while expanding your knowledge and connecting with the community. Each session offers fresh insights and lively discussions. Don’t miss this enriching lunchtime experience! This November, we'll be joined by Harry Sanders. Harry the...
Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer (The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer) is one of the most imaginative and wide-ranging works of rabbinic literature—a Talmudic-era collection of midrashim that retells and expands upon the Torah’s stories, from the creation of the world to Miriam’s leprosy in the Book of Numbers. Within its pages you’ll find Jewish ethics, ancient customs,...
Canada 2025 | Director: Barry Avrich | English | 95 minutes Documentary Perhaps the most talked about film of this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), The Road Between Us was originally pulled from the TIFF lineup to great controversy, only to be ultimately reinstated, and going on to win the festival's People’s Choice Award...
Israel/Czech Republic/Poland 2025 | Directors: Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 110 minutes Drama/Romance While waiting at the airport for her husband, Aya is mistaken for someone else. Intrigued, she decides, on a whim, to pick up a total stranger instead. Their encounter sparks an unexpected intimacy that...
Canada/Sweden 2025 | Directors: Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman | English & Yiddish with English subtitles | 77 minutes Documentary In their entertaining and insightful new film SWEDISHKAYT, self-proclaimed "international Yiddish-ish icons" YidLife Crisis - comedy duo Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman – embark on a whirlwind trip to Stockholm where they unearth a hidden...
USA 2024 | Director: Oren Rudavsky | English & French with English subtitles | 87 minutes Documentary Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, this captivating documentary offers an intimate and unprecedented look into the life and legacy of Elie Wiesel, one of the most profound voices of our time. Told largely through his own...
United Kingdom | Director: Joe Stephenson | English | 112 minutes Biopic Midas Man brings to life the story of Brian Epstein, the visionary whose unyielding belief in the Beatles’ potential catapulted them from a scrappy Liverpool band into the biggest rock phenomenon of all time – and transformed music history forever. From running a...
Join us each month at Masala Art for lively conversation, good company, and great food as we explore Jewish literature together. The Beth Tzedec Book Club is open to all who love reading and discussing stories, history, and ideas through a Jewish lens. This November, we'll be discussing Night Owls by A. R. Vishny, an...
The Calgary Council of Christians and Jews (CCCJ) is sponsoring an exciting new program in Jewish-Christian Dialogue: an exchange of visits between various Churches and Synagogues in Calgary. The first of these exchanges will take place at Beth Tzedec Congregation on Saturday, November 29, when members of the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer will...
Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer (The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer) is one of the most imaginative and wide-ranging works of rabbinic literature—a Talmudic-era collection of midrashim that retells and expands upon the Torah’s stories, from the creation of the world to Miriam’s leprosy in the Book of Numbers. Within its pages you’ll find Jewish ethics, ancient customs,...
