Free Sneak Preview of
Blessed is the Match
This is an engaging documentary about Hannah Senesh, the modern poet and parachutist in the only military rescue mission of Jews during the Holocaust. This documentary vividly re-creates Hannah’s privileged Jewish girlhood in Budapest, her training in Palestine, and the events of her capture and arrest in Nazi-occupied Hungary. On the short list for 2009 Academy Award for best documentary. Suitable for teenagers and adults.
Sunday, January 25
10:30 a.m. (85 mins.)
Fallbrook Laemmle Theater
6731 Fallbrook Ave, West Hills, CA
Followed by Q & A and discussion led by CSUN Jewish Studies faculty
Co-Sponsored by Adat Ari El, Temple Aliyah, Temple Kol Tikvah, Shomrei Torah Synagogue, and Valley Beth Shalom
Free Public Lecture
Mrs. Dinah Balbien, a Holocaust survivor, will be speaking to CSUN's Jewish Studies classes about her story. Mrs. Balbien will be speaking twice, once at 10:00 a.m. and at 11:00 a.m.
Monday, March 2
10:00 a.m. Sierra Hall 285
11:00 a.m. Jerome Richfield Hall 303
Free Public Lecture
Religious Terrorism in Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism Today
Featuring three experts from CSUN's Religious Studies
Department:
Professor Jody Myers (Judaism)
Professor Mustafa Ruzgar (Islam)
Professor Phyllis Herman (Hinduism)
Tuesday, March 17
11a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Thousand Oaks Room, University Student Union
Kabbalah Centre:
Healing the Self, Fixing the World
A presentation by Chagai Shuster, teacher, Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles in Professor Jody Myers' class "Modern Jewish Thought: Kabbalah Then and Now"
Thursday, March 19
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Sierra Hall 314
Free Sneak Preview
“The Lemon Tree”
A film by Israeli director Eran Riklis
A Palestinian widow stands up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he decides that her lemon grove poses a risk to his safety and must be uprooted. With a young Palestinian lawyer, she takes her case all the way up to the Israeli Supreme Court. Her courage earns her the sympathy of the Defense Minister’s wife, challenges the conservative social values of Palestinian society, and exposes the complex relations between Israelis and Palestinians today.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
10:00 a.m. (106 mins.)
Fallbrook Laemmle Theater
6731 Fallbrook Ave, West Hills, CA
Followed by Q & A and discussion led by CSUN Jewish Studies faculty
Limited Seating: Call (818) 677-4724
or email
jewish.studies@csun.edu to reserve a seat.
Co-Sponsored by Adat Ari El, Temple Aliyah, Temple Kol Tikvah, Shomrei Torah Synagogue, and Valley Beth Shalom
Free Sneak Preview
“Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg”
A film by Aviva Kempner
This is a humorous and eye-opening documentary of entertainment pioneer Gertrude Berg. She was the creator, principal writer, and star of The Goldbergs, a popular radio show about a Jewish family living in New York City which became television’s very first character-driven domestic sitcom in 1949. This documentary illustrates the creation of the shows and the challenges of creating comedy during the war years and the McCarthy era.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
10:00 a.m. (92 mins.)
Laemmle's Town Center 5
17200 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA
Followed by Q & A and discussion led by CSUN Jewish Studies faculty
Limited Seating: Call (818) 677-4724
or email jewish.studies@csun.edu to
reserve a seat.
Co-Sponsored by Adat Ari El, Temple Aliyah, Temple Kol Tikvah, Shomrei Torah Synagogue, and Valley Beth Shalom
