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. Our October session will feature Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and...
France 2024 | Director: Alexandre Arcady | French & Arabic with English subtitles | 126 minutes Drama Antoine, a celebrated filmmaker, travels back to his birthplace, Algiers, with his young son to present his latest film: an account of his childhood in mid-20th century Algeria during the country's civil war. As he wanders through the...
USA/Poland 2025 | Director: Yoav Potash | English & Polish with English subtitles | 100 minutes Documentary - USA Today, in an era where difficult truths about the past are being silenced by a right-wing Polish government that seeks to deny any Polish complicity in the Holocaust, Among Neighbors investigates the story of a small,...
USA 2025 | Director: Abby Ginzberg | English & Hebrew with English subtitles | 79 minutes Documentary A visionary leader, humanitarian, and one of history’s most influential, yet under-recognized, American Jewish women, Henrietta Szold left an enduring legacy that continues to reverberate to this day. After visiting Palestine in 1909, she founded Hadassah, a Jewish...
Israel 2024 | Directors: Adir Miller, Doror Paz & Yoav Paz | Hebrew, English & Hungarian with English subtitles | 122 minutes Dramedy Arnon Noble is a religious man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust survivor. He usually drives her to school lectures where she tells the students how she saved the...
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. Our November book selection will be announced soon! Upcoming books to be...
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),...
Israel 2025 Director: Paz Schwartz Hebrew with English subtitles 72 minutes Documentary Displaced from their homes in the kibbutzim and villages along Israel’s southern border with Gaza following the October 7th massacre, the twelfth graders of Nofei HaBsor, the regional high school, face an uncertain future. Scattered across the country and longing to be with...
Bring your whole family together for an unforgettable Friday night filled with music, laughter, and community spirit. This month, we'll be joined by our friends at PJ Library, who will be leading us in a special Shabbat craft! At 5:30pm, jump into an interactive Shabbat service with singing, games, and stories that will have kids...
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,...
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),...
