WEDDING DOLL
DIRECTOR: Nitzan Gilady – ISRAEL
Winner of the Best Israeli Debut Feature and Best Actress (Assi Levi) at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Wedding Doll is set in a small town in southern Israel’s Negev desert. Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental disability, works in a toilet paper factory and lives with her mother, Sarah, a divorcée who has given up her life for her daughter. Hagit is obsessed with romantic fantasies and spends her evenings making bridal gowns from paper she gets at the factory. Hungering for a life on her own, when Hagit embarks on her first romantic relationship she tries to keep it a secret from her mother. (82 mins.)
View film’s trailer HERE.
Randy Blazak Professor of Sociology at PSU and a specialist in the study of Neo-Nazis and hate groups will be speaking about the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Randy wrote in his Jan. 25th blogpost entitled What does the Bundy militia really want?
“We can make fun of these guys. We can see how they’ve trampled the rights of the people of Harney County while pretending to defend them. We can see them as little boy soldiers obsessed with guns and cowboy hats. We can see them as entitled whites who are the media-savvy face of a racist underground. We can see them as armed terrorists who would be dead by now if they were black or Muslim. Or we could see them as sparking a discussion about our faith in and fear of the government and what we should do about it.
….[A]s much as we might disagree with the macho tactics of the militia members, this issue about the power of the federal government to infringe on our personal liberties is at the core of the American conversation. It was in 1789 and it is in 2016.”
THRU YOU PRINCESS
DIRECTOR: Ido Haar – ISRAEL
The Israeli musician and artist Kutiman rose to fame with his “Thru You” project, which mashes up samples from You Tube clips featuring amateur musicians. Samantha, a nurse in New Orleans, uploads her songs and candid video diaries, hoping for an audience. Director Ido Haar documents her attempt to make it in the music scene in her hometown and mixes these scenes with footage of Kutiman at home on a kibbutz, watching Samantha online, singing her a cappella vocals and sampling them in a video. Samantha couldn’t possibly imagine that halfway around the world, there’s someone who is about to expand her audience to numbers beyond her wildest dreams. (80 mins.)
A weekly story hour for young families with music and PJ Library books!
WEDDING DOLL
DIRECTOR: Nitzan Gilady – ISRAEL
Winner of the Best Israeli Debut Feature and Best Actress (Assi Levi) at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Wedding Doll is set in a small town in southern Israel’s Negev desert. Hagit, a young woman with a mild mental disability, works in a toilet paper factory and lives with her mother, Sarah, a divorcée who has given up her life for her daughter. Hagit is obsessed with romantic fantasies and spends her evenings making bridal gowns from paper she gets at the factory. Hungering for a life on her own, when Hagit embarks on her first romantic relationship she tries to keep it a secret from her mother. (82 mins.)
View film’s trailer HERE.
Join us for a weekly story hour for young families with PJ Library stories, crafts and music!
Join PJ Library as we bring back Yad b’Yad with Kim Schneiderman! Inter generational singing and stories at Cedar Sinai Park.
A weekly story hour for young families with music & PJ Library books!
No story hour on April 29th.
Hineinu-We are Here!
And YOU are invited to join us for a very special evening.
Friday, February 26th
5:00 – 6:00 PM Wine, appetizers, and conversation
6:00 – 7:00 PM Musical Shabbat service led by your clergy and musical guests from our own CBI community
7:00 – ? Fabulous Oneg and time to learn more about Hineinu and each other
Become part of our temple’s remarkable future and learn how you can add your own unique talents for strengthening and building relationships within our CBI family.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Come add your voice to the chorus of voices at Shaarie Torah as we welcome Shabbat together. Spirited singing, prayers in Hebrew and English, raucous noise and peaceful silence – everything you need to open the gates of Shabbat
Every fourth Friday of the month. A wonderful oneg will follow!
FREE Childcare provided!!!