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CELEBRITYMyrna and Lenny ComercheroTerri and Mark FriedmanTerri and Michael GoldbergIsrael BondsLynn and Lowell JacobsStuart KerievskySusan and Richard KoganLois LautenbergEllen and Donald LegowKathy J. LoesbergMarilyn and Monroe Markovitz Deborah Prinz and Lawrence Neher/ Berkowitz Lichtstein, LLCLonye and Stephen RaschBarbara and Stuart RaynorLarry ReinRRBB/Carl SchwartzSue Z. RuddSharon and Stephen SeidenSylvia SteinerThe M. and G. Roesch FoundationThe Russell Berrie Foundation

MOVIE BUFFAndrea and Jeff BergmanRon BronsteinSusan B. CarleCarol ChurginKaryn Klein and Fred CohenRenee and Jeffrey CohenDr. Carol E. Mann and Pio ConsoliStacey and Gene DavisBrenda and Jerry DeenerSusan and Bruce FeinFlorin Family FoundationSusan and Jordan GalatzDebra Gallanter Mattye and Robert GandelMichael GarkaweBetty and Arnold GoldsteinJane and Arthur GrossmanHope and Jeffrey HalpertPamela and Howard HellerLibby HellerVictoria and Jeffrey JacobsTina and Henry Kaplan

Gail and Max KleinmanCindy Chazan and Jay LeipzigJudith LiebermanMarlene and Saul LupinPhyllis and Stanley PerlaRobin and Mark PolsonDorit Tabak and Eliott Saltzman Geri SchaefferSharon and James SchwarzDr. Stanley ShapiroWilliam and Rickey SlezakNancy and Lewis StolmanSusan and Elliot StupakNeimah and Paul TractenbergMarlene and Gerry TuchAudrey and Joel Weinstock Susan Weinstock

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The Rabbi Goes West

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Films are not rated. parental discretion is strongly advised. Films may contain sexual content, explicit language, and/or violence.

In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, an effort to achieve peace between Israelis and

Palestinians. Yigal Amir, a zealous ultranationalist Zionist and devout Orthodox Jew, is consumed by anger that the

treaty includes ceding of territory he and others believe is — by word of God — Israel’s. Convinced he must stop the signing

of the accords to fulfill his destiny and bring salvation to his people, Amir sees only one way forward.

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IncitementDirector: Yaron Zilberman

2019, 123 minutesisrael / hebrew

Friday, March 20 • 11:30am JCC MetroWest, West OrangenJ PReMIeRe DOCUMentARY

The Rabbi Goes WestDirectors: Amy Geller and Gerald Peary 2019, 73 minutesenglish

Chaim Bruk, a Chabad rabbi, moves to the unlikely area of Bozeman, Montana, to bring his brand of Judaism to the American West. Part of his mission is to place a mezuzah on the doorpost of every Jewish home in the state — fewer than 2,000 families. In his travels, Chaim confronts a neo-nazi threat and resistance to his proselytizing from some skeptical Jews and the state’s Reform and Conservative rabbis. they acknowledge he is beloved by his congregants, but fear his larger goal: to put up Chabad centers everywhere in Montana.

Post-screening discussion via Skype with filmmakers Amy Geller and Gerald Peary

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An Irrepressible WomanDirector: Laurent Heynemann2019, 105 minutesFrance / French

It is 1940, and Léon Blum — the Jewish socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France — has been imprisoned at Buchenwald. Jeanne Reichenbach, in love with Blum since she was a teenager but married and with a son, is driven to link her fate with Blum’s. As the nazis invade France, she abandons her comfortable life and risks everything to reunite with Blum in prison.

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Douze PointsDirector: Danny Sirkin2019, 90 minutesIsrael / Hebrew, French, english

Growing up in Paris’s Muslim quarter, Rasoul Abu-Marzuk and tarik Jihad were best friends. But when tarik comes out of the closet at 15, Rasoul turns his back on his friend, and tarik is ostracized from the community. now “tJ” is a proudly gay singer on his way to represent France in europe’s biggest song contest. But he becomes a target as ISIS plants an operative — Rasoul — acting as his boyfriend, into the French delegation to violently attack the festival.

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Director: Sarah Logan hofstein 2019 • 19 minutesAustria / englishAfter moving to Austria, Rachel, a 20-something American Jew, runs headlong into trauma associated with the Holocaust — and her feelings about the refugee crisis. An ethiopian refugee shows her that healing begins with a single act of compassion.

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Directors: Shirly Sasson-ezer and Dana Keidar • 2019 • 18 minutesisrael / hebrewA dark comedy about a 32-year-old careerist who is struggling to become pregnant amid massive social pressure.

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Director: Shiri Cohen • 20189 minutes • Israel/HebrewA bittersweet coming-of-age tale of a 12-year-old Israeli girl who goes to the beauty salon for the first time to get her eyebrows waxed in preparation for her bat mitzvah.

Flour & Water: A Baker’s Peace DOCUMentARY

Director: Christopher King • 20199 minutes • USA / English, Frenchthree bakers — a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim — come together in tel Aviv to bake bread in the form of a “hamsa” — a symbol of peace. Filmed in Israel and southern France.

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Director: Sarah Smith • 201914 minutes • USA / EnglishOne night, when his family is out of town, a Hasidic man with a carefully guarded secret misplaces his black hat, causing his two separate lives to collide in a way he never imagined.

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Director: Rachel Gordon • 201910 minutes • USA/EnglishBirdie, a biracial child, lives with her white mom in new Jersey. As she prepares for her bat mitzvah, she spends a day with her recovering addict black father. When he lets her down, her resilience enables her to proudly enter adulthood.

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Director: Talia Osteen • 20197 minutes • USA / EnglishOn Shabbat, when a young Orthodox woman in Brooklyn is forbidden to turn off a certain stimulating device gone rogue, she sets out on a quest to find someone who can.

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post-screening discussion with filmmakers Christopher King (Flour & Water) and Rachel gordon (Broken Bird)

Sunday, March 22 • 7pm JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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Tel Aviv on FireDirector: Sameh Zoabi 2018, 100 minutes Luxembourg, Belgium, Israel, France / Arabic, Hebrew

In this charming satire, Salam, a slacker PA on a popular Palestinian soap opera, finds unexpected success as a screenwriter when he begins pilfering plot points from Assi, an imaginative Israeli border guard. But when Assi’s ideas start pushing the show in a more pro-Israel direction, Salam finds himself caught in the middle of an artistic battleground — with the whole country tuning in to see how it unfolds.

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Monday, March 23 • 11:30am JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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The Dead of JaffaDirector: Ram Loevy 2019, 96 minutesIsrael / Arabic, english, Hebrew

three orphaned children from the West Bank are smuggled into Israel and brought to distant relatives George and Rita in Jaffa. Rita embraces them as her own, but George fears the repercussions if the Israeli authorities discover they are sheltering the young illegal aliens. Meanwhile, nearby, a British film director is making a movie about his parents’ love affair in 1947 when they served in the British army in Palestine. When the present-day reality meets the historical events that led to it, tragedy ensues.

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2019 Jerusalem Film Festival

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Community Partner

College of Saint Elizabeth Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education

Monday, March 23 • 7:30pm JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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AulcieDirector: Dani Menkin2019, 75 minutes USA, Israel / english, Hebrew

In 1976, Aulcie Perry, a gifted black athlete from newark, was recruited by the Maccabi tel Aviv basketball team and helped lead them to their first historic european Cup championship, putting Israel, as his teammate and fellow Jerseyan tal Brody claimed, “on the map.” After converting to Judaism and becoming an Israeli citizen, Perry reveled in the adulation of his new country — but soon took a turn onto a self-destructive path. He paid dearly for his mistakes and made a valiant attempt to redeem himself.

Post-screening discussion via Skype with filmmaker Dani Menkin

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Monday, March 23 • 7pmCollege of Saint Elizabeth, MorristownFREE SCREENING

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From Cairo to the CloudDirector: Michelle Paymar 2018, 94 minutes Canada, USA, egypt, France, Israel, UK / english

A fascinating account of the late-19th-century discovery of the world’s largest and most diverse collection of medieval manuscripts, hidden for centuries in the geniza, or sacred storeroom, of a synagogue in Old Cairo. A tale of adventure and scholarship by pioneering women and radical rabbis, who embark on a remarkable odyssey to bring these historic trove to the modern world. early photos and film-reel scenes combine with animation and visual effects to reveal the significance of rare treasures of 1,000 years of Jewish life.

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Gary Rendsburg, Chair of Jewish History at Rutgers University

Community Partners

Congregation Etz Chaim

AJC New Jersey

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Tuesday, March 24 • 11:30am JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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The MoverDirector: Davis Simanis2018, 87 minutesLatvia / Latvian, German, Yiddish

this award-winning feature film is based on the true story of Žanis Lipke, a Latvian blue-collar worker honored as one of the Righteous Among the nations. Despite the threat of danger to his own family, Lipke embarks on a covert operation to save local Jews from nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.

Tuesday, March 24 • 7:30pmJCC MetroWest, West Orange

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Viral: Anti-Semitism in Four MutationsDirector: Andrew Goldberg2020, 85 minutesUSA, United Kingdom, France, Hungary / english

A look at the rise of anti-Semitism today in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Hungary. the film provides an analysis of its resurgence, featuring interviews with Bill Clinton, tony Blair, academics, activists, and journalists, as well as survivors of the attacks on Pittsburgh’s tree of Life synagogue and the kosher supermarket in Paris. It examines how the far left’s criticism of Israel devolves into anti-Semitism and how far-right political leaders have revived ancient anti-Jewish canards.

Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Andrew Goldberg and Linda Scherzer, Director of Community Relations Committee of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ

Community Partners

Community Relations Committee of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ

Temple Ner Tamid

Women’s Philanthropy ofJewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ

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Holocaust Council of Greater MetroWest NJ

Temple B’nai Abraham

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Love in SuspendersDirector: Jorge Weller2019, 102 minutesIsrael / Hebrew

When tami, a 60-something widow who can’t let go of her late husband, hits Beno, a 70-year-old lone wolf widower, with her car, the last thing on her mind is romance. Wanting only to stop him from suing her, she invites him to her apartment, setting off a series of emotional, but comic struggles. they get closer, break up, get back together, and fight again — until, ultimately, love wins out.

Wednesday, March 25 • 7:30pmJCC MetroWest, West Orange

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The Spy Behind Home PlateDirector: Aviva Kempner2019, 101 minutes USA / english

Award-winning filmmaker Aviva Kempner highlights the life of a little-known Jewish hero: the enigmatic Morris “Moe” Berg. He went from the streets of newark to playing for five Major League teams during baseball’s Golden Age to his secret life spying for the OSS during World War II. Berg’s improbable story is told with rare historical footage and revealing interviews with family and notables from the worlds of history, sports, and espionage.

Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Aviva Kempner

Community Partners

Congregation Agudath Israel

Greater MetroWest CARES

Hadassah Northern NJ

Margulies Senior Center at JCC MetroWest

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Lois LautenbergBarbara and Stuart Raynor

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EdekDirector: Malcolm Green2018, 6 minutesUnited Kingdom / english

Janine, a Holocaust survivor, and Kapoo, a young African-American rapper, collaborate to deliver a hip-hop fusion to tell one of the world’s darkest stories in an entirely new and inspiring way.

Thursday, March 26 • 11:30am JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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The Euphoria of BeingDirector: Réka Szabó2019, 83 minutesHungary / Hungarian

eva Fahidi survived Auschwitz; her mother, father, sister, and 49 family members were killed, and she returned alone to Hungary after the war. When the nonagenarian is asked to participate in a dance theater duet about her life, with acclaimed young dancer emese Cuhorka, the two women embark on a process of creative interaction on stage, intertwining their bodies and their stories. the horror of eva’s past and her sustaining exuberance for life are expressed through a performance that defines love and resilience.

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Jewish Women’s Foundation of NJ

Thursday, March 26 • 7:30pm Bow Tie Cinema, South Orange

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Flawless Directors: tal Granit, Sharon Maymon2018, 97 minutesIsrael, Germany / Hebrew, Russian, english

Seventeen-year-old eden discovers that her two best friends are planning to sell their kidneys and use the money to pay for cosmetic surgery and dresses for the prom at their Israeli high school. eden, who is secretly a transgender woman, realizes that joining their venture may be the answer to her prayers. But a secret revealed makes them realize that nothing is as it seems.

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AdvocateDirectors: Philippe Bellaiche, Racheal Leah Jones2019, 114 minutes Israel, Canada, Switzerland / Arabic, Hebrew, english

For five decades, Israeli lawyer Lea tsemel has defended Palestinians charged with a range of crimes. now, she and her team are representing Ahmad, a 13-year-old implicated in a knife attack in Jerusalem. He, like other Palestinians charged with serious crimes, will face an unfair trial in a country where, tsemel says, the government, court system, and media are stacked against him. to many, tsemel is a traitor who defends the indefensible; to others, she’s a true champion of human rights.

Post-screening discussion with Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor-in-chief of “The New York Jewish Week”

Friday, March 27 • 11:30am JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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Fiddler: A Miracle of MiraclesDirector: Max Lewkowicz2019, 92 minutesUSA / english

An exploration of the evolution of the beloved Broadway musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” from its origins in 1964 — when it won nine tony Awards — to its status as a cultural touchstone. “Fiddler” has been performed more than any other show, from middle schools in inner cities to high schools in rural America to theaters in countries around the world. Featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sheldon Harnick, Hal Prince, Austin Pendleton, Joanna Merlin, Danny Burstein, Itzhak Perlman, Charles Isherwood, and Harvey Fierstein.

Post-screening discussion with filmmakers Max Lewkowicz and Valerie Thomas

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The Fiddle Director: Asher Schwartz2018, 9 minutesIsrael / english, Yiddish

Based on Sholem Aleichem’s short story “the Fiddle” and narrated by renowned actor Mike Burstyn, this is the story of the boy whose soulful music led to his becoming the “fiddler on the roof.”

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Best Israeli Film, 2019 DocAviv Film FestivalBest Feature-Length Documentary, 2019 Krakow Film Festival

Documentary, 2019 Hong Kong International Film Festival

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Saturday, March 28 • 9pm JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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Standing Up, Falling DownDirector: Matt Ratner 2019, 91 minutesUSA / english

Scott, a struggling stand-up comedian (Ben Schwartz), moves back home to Long Island after four unsuccessful years of trying to make it in LA. On a night out, he meets a charming, eccentric, alcoholic dermatologist, Marty (Billy Crystal), who has his own burden of regrets. through this unlikely friendship, they help each other find healing and the confidence to face the “failures” in their lives.

Sunday, March 29 • 11:00am JCC MetroWest, West Orange

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Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People Director: Oren Rudavsky2018, 85 minutesUSA / english

Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, was a gifted journalist before becoming a successful publisher and businessman. Famous in his own time for his outspoken and cantankerous editorial voice, visual style, and financial success, Pulitzer emerges as the country’s first media titan, championing what he regarded as the sacred role of the free press in a democracy, a commitment that resonates strongly in today’s fraught political environment.

Post-screening discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld

Community Partner

Dorot of the Synagogue of the Suburban Torah Center

Temple Sinai-Renaissance Group

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When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitDirector: Caroline Link2019, 119 minutesGermany, Switzerland / German, French, english

In 1933, nine-year-old Anna must flee Berlin with her family to join her father, a well-known Jewish journalist escaping the nazis, in Zurich. She has to leave everything behind, including her beloved pink rabbit, and face a new life full of challenges and privations abroad.

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When world-famous conductor eduard Sporck accepts a job to help establish an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he steps into a tempest of discord and mistrust. the young musicians have grown up in a state of conflict, with fear governing each group’s perceptions of the other. Sporck’s essential task becomes more personal than musical: to create an ensemble in which the children of conflict can come together in harmony.

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CrescendoDirector: Dror Zahavi2019, 123 minutesisrael / hebrew

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SEATING POLICYSponsor seating will begin 30 minutes prior to all screenings. General admission ticket holders will be admitted 20 minutes prior to all screenings. In the event of a sell-out, a waiting list will be created.

GENERAL INFORMATIONFilms are not rated. parental discretion is strongly advised. Films may contain sexual content, explicit language and/or violence. the nJJFF is not responsible for lost or stolen tickets. Sorry, no refunds or exchanges. Festival programs are subject to change/cancellation without prior notice. For film trailers and the most up-to-date information about festival events, visit our website or call the Film Festival hotline at 973-530-3417.

ALL FOREIGN FILMS HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

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TICKET INFORMATION Onlinejccmetrowest.org/njjff Your printed receipt will serve as your ticket.

In Personvisit the Box Office in the Gaelen Lobby, adjacent to the Maurice Levin theater on the first floor of JCC MetroWest, Mondays and thursdays, 10am–noon and Wednesdays, 1–3pm beginning February 19, 2020.

Ticket Pricesindividual ticketsRegular Screenings: $14 Student, Senior, Matinee (before 5pm): $12opening & Closing nightsGeneral Seating: $20 Student or Senior: $18All-Festival pass$350 per person

At the Doortickets may be purchased at the theater venue starting 45 minutes prior to screening, subject to availability.

Advanced purchase is strongly encouraged, as films often sell out. Box office ticket fees apply.

FESTIVAL CO-CHAIRSAndrea Bergman, Joni Cohen, Abby Meth Kanter

FESTIVAL CURATORvicky Jacobs

FESTIVAL COMMITTEECarol Churgin Myrna Comercheronancy FisherRobin FlorinCaren FordHerbert Fordterri FriedmanMax KleinmanAnnette LittmanKathy Loesberg

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FESTIVAL DIRECTORSarah Diamond

FESTIVAL ADMINISTRATORJennica Carmona

JCC MetroWest is a beneficiary agency of Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest nJ. JCC MetroWest strives to ensure access and meaningful participation by all members of the community.

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