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Thursday, July 17 YIDDISH THEATRE: A LOVE STORY 2:00 PM, JCC Hart Theatre Enter the funny, larger-than-life world of Yiddish Theater through this moving new documentary film about Zypora Spaisman, an 85+ year-old actress who has helped keep Yiddish theater alive in America. With a passion for art, life and Yiddish, she fights to be relevant in a society that worships youth. A must see film for anyone who loves theater and has realized Yiddish is HIP! Presented in cooperation with ... MORE » |
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Thursday, July 17 MY FATHER MY LORD (Hofshat Kaits) 6:30 PM, Little Theatre Winner of Best Narrative film at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, MY FATHER MY LORD is a quiet, intense film of shattering power and dreamlike beauty. Filmmaker David Volach drew upon his upbringing as one of 19 children in an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem family to create this tale of a revered rabbi's effort to impart his deep faith to his young son. Framed as a variation on the biblical stories of Job, and of Abraham and Isaac, this haunting ... MORE » |
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Thursday, July 17 THE FIRST BASKET 8:30 PM, Little Theatre Did you know that Ossie Schectman, a Jewish kid from Queens, scored the NBA's very first basket? Schectman and his New York Knickerbocker teammates Sonny Hertzberg, Stan Stutz, Hank Rosenstein, Ralph Kaplowitz, Jake Weber, and Leo "Ace" Gottlieb went on to win the opening game 68-66. For Jewish immigrants in the early 20th century, sports played an essential part in becoming "American," and was a way of disproving ... MORE » |
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