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Civil Rights Trip Through the American South

11/10/2024

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$1,520

“Unspoken” Film Screening

11/9/2024, 9:15 pm

The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge

Unspoken

$18

“Avenue of the Giants” Film Screening

11/7/2024, 7:00 pm

Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline

Avenue of the Giants

$18

The Performance

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Opening Night: “The Performance” Film Screening

11/6/2024, 7:00 pm

Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline

$25

Mizrahi Jewish Heritage Month: “The Forgotten Refugees”

11/4/2024, 7:00 pm

Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody

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Free

Robert P. Jones: “Christian Nationalism, Religious Pluralism, and the 2024 Election”

10/8/2024, 5:00 pm

Gasson Hall, Chestnut Hill

Robert P Jones, Noah Willman, Simon & Schuster)

Free

Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream

9/30/2024, 12:30 pm

Henrietta Szold, Jewish National Fund

Free

Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches & Future Directions

9/26/2024, 6:30 pm

Salem State University Marsh Hall, Petrowski Room 210, Salem

Dr. Caroline Sturdy Colls, Treblinka: Hitler's Killing Machine, Smithsonian Channel

Free

How American Activists Helped Free Soviet Jews

9/26/2024, 1:00 pm

Free

Christian Nationalism: Roots and Realities

9/25/2024, 7:00 pm

Temple Beth Israel, Waltham

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Free

Lizkor: To Remember Program – From Germany to America

9/25/2024, 7:00 pm

Temple Beth Am, Framingham

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1/25/2023 Top Pick

Memorializing an Overlooked Chapter in Holocaust History: Jungfernhof

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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1/11/2023 Top Pick

Book Review: “Who By Fire” by Matti Friedman

Leonard Cohen performed on the front lines during the Yom Kippur War. His 33 days in the desert come to life in this impeccably-researched, mesmerizing retelling.

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1/10/2023 Top Pick

Boston Temple Celebrates 180 Years

The oldest congregation in the state, Temple Ohabei Shalom has been a trailblazer in the local Jewish landscape for almost two centuries.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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12/14/2022 Top Pick

When Hanukkah Was About Politics and Zionism, Not Gifts

Brandeis University professor Ellen Kellman talks about how the holiday was commemorated at America’s secular Yiddish schools.

By Lawrence GoodmanFor Brandeis University

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12/6/2022 Top Pick

“The Teddy Bear”

Lappin Foundation announces the release of “The Teddy Bear,” a new animated film telling the true story lived and told by Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum.

By Deborah L. ColtinFor Lappin Foundation

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11/18/2022 Top Pick

Henry Rosovsky, Refugee From the Nazis, Dies

Rosovsky’s ability to bring people together to help chart a course for Boston’s Jewish community.

By Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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11/18/2022 Top Pick

10 Tough Questions on Antisemitism Explained

Answers about Jew-hatred, including the origins and sources of antisemitism, what it looks like today and what Israel has to do with it.

By AJC Global Voice

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11/14/2022 Top Pick

Benjamin Zander Shares the Magic of Music

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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10/31/2022 Top Pick

What’s Screening at the 34th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival: Part 2

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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