Programming

BJ Film Festival

The Annual BJ Film Festival will screen 4 stimulating documentaries this year in Heritage Hall, followed by discussions led by Rabbi Feldman and Rabbi Freundlich. Popcorn and light refreshments will be available for purchase. Cost is $5 per film, $15 for the entire series.

 

Hiding and Seeking

Saturday night, January 14, 8:00 pm

Is it possible to heal wounds and bitterness passed down through generations? An American Orthodox Jewish father tries to alert his adult sons, learning in Kollel in Israel, to the dangers of creating impenetrable barriers between themselves and those outside their faith. He takes them on an emotional journey to Poland to track down the family who risked their lives to hide their grandfather during World War II. Like many children of survivors, the sons feel that Poland is a country that is incurably anti-Semitic, but it is precisely here that they meet people who personify the highest levels of compassion. Hiding and Seeking explores the Holocaust’s effect on faith in G-d as well as faith in our fellow human beings.

 

Iranium

Saturday night, February 25, 8:15 pm

How dangerous is a nuclear Iran, even if it never detonates a weapon? What are the guiding principles of the Iranian leadership? To what lengths would the regime go to carry out its agenda? How far have Iran’s leaders already gone to fund the world’s most powerful terrorist organizations? And why have American leaders failed to gain the upper hand in relations with Iran during the past 30 years? Iranium powerfully reports on the many aspects of the threat America and the world now faces using rarely-before seen footage of Iranian leaders, and interviews with 25 leading politicians, Iranian dissidents, and experts on Middle East policy, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation.

 

Six Days in June

Sunday night, May 20, 7:30 pm

This Yom Yerushalayim, relive the War that redefined the Middle East. In this classic documentary, the guiding Hand of G-d is undeniable as powerful events and people converge during a miraculous Six Days in June 1967. Trace the events leading up to war, from Nasser and Hussein to Eshkol and Dayan. Although the fighting lasted for only six days, the effects of the War are still apparent today.