A Newsletter of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore
Catch these captivating films at our 24th Annual Baltimore Jewish Film Festival!
David Sunday, April 15; 3:00pm Directors: Joel Fendelman and Patrick Daly USA 2011; English Guest Speakers: Stephanie Levy, producer Muatasem Mishal, actor (David) As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his Father (Maz Jobrani) and his feelings of isolation. Through an innocent act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their orthodox school. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and Yoav, one of the Jewish boys, and his family. Unable to resist the joy of a camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known to the kids, is drawn into a complicated dilemma inspired by youthful deceit and the best of intentions.
April/May 2012 Nissan/Iyar/Sivan 5772
An Article of Hope
Mabul (The Flood)
Tuesday, April 17; 7:30pm Director: Daniel Cohen USA; 2011; English Guest Speaker: Daniel Cohen (director)
Sunday April 22; 2:00pm Director: Guy Nattiv Israel 2001; Hebrew with English subtitles Guest Speaker: TBD
Dawn is breaking on the morning of February 1, 2003 above West Texas when the peace of the early morning is shattered by two loud bangs. The Space Shuttle Columbia is announcing its return home. The shuttle is speeding toward a Florida homecoming, but something has gone horribly wrong. The shuttle has broken up, vanished! Gone is its precious cargo of seven astronauts from around the world. Among them, Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first Astronaut. Also gone is a tiny Torah scroll – smuggled into a concentration camp during the Holocaust; safeguarded by Joachim Joseph, a Holocaust survivor; and carried into space by Col. Ilan Ramon. An Article of Hope, fulfills the promise that a boy in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp made during the Holocaust- to use the Torah scroll to tell the world what happened in the camp.
Yoni is almost 13, gifted, but physically undeveloped. He struggles daily to grow up before his up-coming Bar Mitzvah. He sells homework in order to secretly buy a body building wonder powder, he stretches every night with heavy weights tied to his legs and screams with full force in front of the wind to thicken his girlish, unstable voice. His new classmates, a year older and two heads taller, bully him at every chance they get and his parents barely say a word to each other and communicate through him. As if all this isn’t enough - only a week before the ceremony his autistic brother, Tomer, 17, hidden for years in a hostel that is now shut down - returns home. This shakes not only Yoni’s life, but the unstable foundation of the entire family.
Jewish Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 FYI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Children & Youth. . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Teens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7 Adults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Tickets $10/film (Film Festival continued on page 12)
Fitness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Arts & Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Aquatics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 JCC Center Staff/FYI. . . . . . . . . 14 Associated Corner. . . . . . . . . . . 15