Events in May–July 2024
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- JxJ Festival Film Screening: Nathan-ism
JxJ Festival Film Screening: Nathan-ism JxJ Festival Film Screening: Nathan-ism
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May 11, 2024Film screening at Edlavitch DCJCC at 1529 16th Street NW, Washington, DC
Nathan Hilu, the son of Syrian Jewish immigrants to New York, received a life-changing assignment from the U.S. Army: to guard the top Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials.
Filmmaker Elan Golod proposes a documentary portrait of the aging artist but what begins as a peek at a unique witness to history grows into an absorbing study of the function of art as archive and invention. Daring to question an artist’s stories, Nathan-ism is a fascinating look at one man’s need to share truths with a world that doesn’t always want to listen.
This must-see documentary for all fine arts lovers made the International Documentary Association Shortlist for Best Documentaries in 2023.
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- Webinar: American Jews in North Africa in World War II
Webinar: American Jews in North Africa in World War II Webinar: American Jews in North Africa in World War II
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May 16, 2024Françoise S. Ouzan, author of True to My God and Country: How Jewish Americans Fought in World War II discusses American Jews who served in Operation Torch in North Africa including their interaction with the local Jewish population in Algeria and Morocco. -
- Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend
Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend
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- Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend
Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium Walk Weekend
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- Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America with Mark Zaid and Rafael Medoff
Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America with Mark Zaid and Rafael Medoff Whistleblowers: Four Who Fought to Expose the Holocaust to America with Mark Zaid and Rafael Medoff
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- Webinar - Alfred Dreyfus: The Man Behind the Affair
Webinar - Alfred Dreyfus: The Man Behind the Affair Webinar - Alfred Dreyfus: The Man Behind the Affair
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June 25, 2024Maurice Samuels joins us to discuss his new book: Alfred Dreyfus: The Man Behind the Affair. Samuels tells the story of Dreyfus’s early life in Paris, his promising career as a French officer, the false accusation leading to his imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the fight to prove his innocence that divided the French nation, and his life of quiet obscurity after World War I.
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- Virtual Film Screening - A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Virtual Film Screening - A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Virtual Film Screening - A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
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July 11, 2024Film screening followed by discussion with Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the shooting. On Saturday, October 27th, 2018, a white supremacist, further radicalized by the political climate at the time, walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue with four semi-automatic assault weapons, shouting “all Jews must die.” He murdered eleven congregants, ranging in age from 54 to 97, as they prayed. A TREE OF LIFE: THE PITTSBURGH SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING creates a deeply personal, trauma-informed portrait of the survivors, victims, and victims' family members of the Pittsburgh Synagogue attack, and brings into sharp focus the hate-based crisis that threatens our collective safety and the very social fabric of our society. As the first film to document the survivor’s stories and the only documentary with this level of personal access to the survivors and families of the victims, viewers will experience first-hand how the lives of those directly affected have profoundly changed and how the Pittsburgh community and the congregations set out on a path towards healing.