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Irena’s Vow
Thursday, October 26, 3:00
p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Regal Cinema, North Brunswick
Jeannie Opdyke Smith, daughter of Irene Gut Opdyke who received a
Righteous Among the Nations Medal in 1982 and whose personal story
inspired the film.
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SHTTL
Sunday, October 29, 12:30
p.m., &
Wednesday, November 1, 12:30
p.m.
Regal Cinema, North
Brunswick
Moshe Lobel, Lead Actor. His acting credits include New
Yiddish Rep’s Awake and Sing and Broadway’s
Yiddish Fiddler on the
Roof.
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The Conspiracy
Sunday, October 29, 3:30
p.m.
Regal Cinema, North
Brunswick
Maxim Pozdorovkin, Writer and Director. His five documentary films
include The Truth about Killer Robots and Our New President.
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Rabbi on the Block
Sunday, October 29, 6:30
p.m.
Regal Cinema, North
Brunswick
Rabbi Tamar Manasseh is an award-winning anti-violence activist in
Chicago who is building bridges between the Jewish and African American
communities.
Brad Rothschild, Director. An award-winning director, writer,
and producer, his documentary films include Kinderblock 66: Return
to Buchenwald, African
Exodus, and Tree Man.
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Closed Circuit
Tuesday, October 31, 7:30
p.m.
Regal Cinema, North Brunswick
Nancy Spielberg, Producer. Her numerous film projects include Above and Beyond, On the Map, Who Will Write Our
History, and Aulcie.
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No Name Restaurant
Sunday, November 5, 6:30
p.m.
Rutgers Business School–New Brunswick
Luzer Twersky, Lead Actor. An
actor and writer, he is best known for his roles in Felix and Meira
and Where Is Joel Baum?
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The Good Person
Wednesday, November 1, 7:30
p.m.
Regal Cinema, North Brunswick
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics, Rutgers
University. A scholar of Rabbinic literature and the Hebrew Bible, he
is the author of Temptation Transformed: How the Forbidden Fruit
Became an Apple and other books.
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The Goldman Case
Available Virtually,
November 6–12
Zoom Discussion
Ethan B. Katz, Associate Professor of History, University of
California, Berkeley. A scholar of both French and modern Jewish
history, he is the author of The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and
Muslims from North Africa to France.
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