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Presented by Congregation Ner Tamid
Thursday, January 14, 2010 * 7:00 PM
Cinemark Theaters, South Point Hotel Casino
Directed by Eran Riklis
France/Israel/Germany, 2008
106 Minutes * English Subtitles
Moderated by Rabbi Akselrad
Tickets: $10 Call 733-6292
A Palestinian widow tests the integrity of the Israeli justice system. Her lemon grove is on the border of Israel and the Occupied Territories and the security authorities declare her trees a threat to the Israeli Defense Minister and his family. She, however, is determined to protect her trees as if she were fighting for her own life.
Presented by Temple Bet Knesset Bamidbar
Saturday, January 16, 2010 * 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Keren Yedaya
Israel, 2009
105 Minutes * English Subtitles
Moderated by Wila Kohn
Tickets: $10.00 general admission, $18.00 premium seats. Call 228-7040
This contemporary story of star-crossed love between a young Jewish woman and an Arab mechanic unfolds in a family-owned auto garage in Jaffa, the ancient seaside city where Jews and Arabs live an uneasy alliance. The clandestine affair is shadowed by strained relations among the girl's family fuelled by prejudice and jealousy.
Presented by Adelson Educational Campus
Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Larry Weinstein
USA, 2009 * 94 Minutes * English Subtitles
Underwritten by Toni and Victor Chaltiel
Moderated by Paul Schiffman
Free and open to the public. Limited Seating
Japanese students and their teacher seek to solve the mystery of a young girl, whose name was painted on an old battered suitcase they receive from Auschwitz. Their investigation transports them across continents and through 70 years of history to discover universal truths.
Presented by Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada
Sunday, January 17, 2010 @ 4:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Sharon Maymon & Erex Tadmor
Germany, 2009 * 92 Minutes * English Subtitles
Moderated by Richard Frankoff and Neil Popish
Tickets: $10.00 Call 794-0090
Herzl is overweight, unemployed and living at home with his mother. Finding a job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant he observes his coworkers watching sumo wrestling on TV and has a revelation to pursue a sport where his size is an asset.
Presented by Hadassah Tzipor Group
Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Andrew Jacobs
USA, 2008 * 101 Minutes
Moderated by Stan Rubens, Holocaust Survivor
Tickets $10 Call 657-0456 or 633-5798
Hailed by New York Times as “an awesome spectacle of life,” the film portrays Holocaust survivors who come together each summer to celebrate their lives. The documentary is about tightly bonded friendships and the quest for inner peace in spite of haunting memories.
Presented by Jewish Family Service Agency’s Holocaust Resource Center
Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 6:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Gaylen Ross
USA, 2009 * 119 Minutes
Moderated by Gaylan Ross and Merav Michaeli
Tickets: $10.00 Call 732-0304
Hero or traitor? The incredible tale of Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, who saved 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland by negotiating with Adolf Eichmann. Yet Kasztner was condemned as a traitor in his adopted country of Israel and assassinated by Jewish extremists in 1957. A tale of murder, intrigue, and heroism with startling revelations after 50 years by Kasztner's assassin, and a chilling meeting between the killer and Kasztner's only daughter.
Presented by Jewish Federation of Las Vegas
Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Richard Trank
USA, 2009 * 98 Minutes
Moderated by Richard Trank
Tickets: $10 General Admission / $25 Director’s Dinner Call 732-0556
A revealing examination about what happened in the United States during the Holocaust, highlighting how a lone radical activist challenged Washington and the Jewish establishment to demand that the rescue of Europe’s Jews become a top priority of America’s war policy.
Presented by Jewish Family Service Agency
Saturday, January 23, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Karin Albou
France, Tunisia, USA, 2008 * 100 Minutes
In French, Arabic, German with English subtitles
Adult Theme
Moderated by Todd Jones
Tickets: $10.00 Call 732-0304
The Wedding Song is a richly sensual portrait of female bonds and sexual awakening in a traditional society on the verge of profound change. This mystical and poetic film evokes the disappearance of the delicate fabric of Jewish-Arab co-existence across North Africa with a beautifully assured historic rendering.
Presented by Jewish Family Service Agency
Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Marion Usher
USA , 2009 * 55 Minutes
Moderated by Dr. Marion Usher, Founder, Interfaith Connections at the Washington DC JCC
Free and open to the public. Limited seating
Interfaith couples openly discuss issues they face as partners from different religious backgrounds. These couples work on creating their religious identities by learning how they can make Jewish choices while still respecting their partner’s religion.
Presented by Jewish Family Service Agency
Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 4:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Gabrielle Antosiewicz
Switzerland, 2006 * 70 Minutes * English Subtitles
Moderated by Wila Kohn
Tickets: $10.00 Call 732-0343
Gabrielle decides it is time to settle down and find a Jewish husband but in her hometown of Zurich, appropriate choices are few and far between. Undeterred, she calls up old school friends and other prospects and invites them over to her house for an unusual first date: she bakes challah with them. Eventually she has six delicious baked loaves, but has she found a recipe for love?
Presented by Brandeis National Committee
Sunday, January 24, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Jim Goddard
UK, 2009 * 96 Minutes
English Subtitles
Moderated by Isaac Shoham
Tickets: $10.00 Call 255-6667
The true story of Israel’s greatest spy Eli Cohen who reluctantly was recruited by the Mossad in the early ‘60s. Telling his wife he has a new job that required extensive business travel, he covertly went to Syria where he befriended a high-ranking Syrian government official who unwittingly provided invaluable information to Israel.
Presented by Hillel of UNLV
Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
UNLV Greenspun Hall
Directed by Shmel Beru
Israel, 2008 * 72 Minutes * English Subtitles
Adult Theme
Moderated by Daniel Desta
Tickets: Free with student I.D., $10.00 general admission.
Call 732-0556.
A powerful look into the contemporary culture of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. The Zrubavel family find themselves caught between their love for their new homeland, the racism they face every day and the clash between their traditional customs and the assimilation of their younger generation.
Presented by Midbar Kodesh Temple
Thursday, January 28, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
Cinemark Theaters, South Point Hotel Casino
Directed by Lorry Salcedo Mitrani
Israel/Peru, 2009 * 60 Minutes * English Subtitles
Underwritten by Carlos Banchik & Adriana Gonorazky with Innova Technologies Structural Engineers
Moderated by Rabbi Tecktiel
Free and open to the public. Limited seating.
This documentary follows the remarkable conversion process of a contemporary Peruvian community descended from indigenous women and Jewish men who settled the Amazon in the late 19th century. Raised with mixed religious traditions and faced with numerous challenges, some remain in the Amazon while others become Israeli citizens.
Presented by Temple Beth Sholom
Saturday, January 30, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by David Brooks
USA, 2009 * 115 Minutes
Moderated by Zev and David Brooks, Writers and Executive Producers
Tickets: $10.00 Call 804-1333 Ext. 100
A comedy tonight! A professional baseball player is fired from the LA Spirits for drinking. After he is released from serving time, his mandatory community service is coaching baseball. However, the only people willing to give him a second chance are a group of orthodox, yeshiva students who formed an upstart baseball team called “The Yankles.”
Presented by Valley Outreach Synagogue
Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 1:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Yael Katzir
USA/Israel, 2009 * 60 Minutes
Moderated by Rabbi Mintz with special guest Rabbi Lynn Brody
Tickets: $10.00 Call 436-4900
This powerful film documents the courageous struggle of the famed “Women of the Wall” movement which has spearheaded the battle for female equality in the religious world. Focused mainly at the Western Wall where women are not allowed to gather and pray, the story raises questions about gender conflict within the religious Jewish world.
Presented by Anti Defamation League
Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 4:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Ben Loeterman
USA, 2009 * 86 Minutes
Moderated by Phyllis Friedman with special guest Carlos Blumberg
Tickets: $10.00 Call 862-8600
In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found dead in the basement of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta. What followed remains one of the most complex episodes in American, Southern and Jewish history. The People vs. Leo Frank weaves an intricate whodunit with compelling themes of racial, religious and regional bias into a dramatized documentary.
Presented by Temple Sinai
Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 7:00 PM
The Adelson Educational Campus Theater
Directed by Lynn Roth
Israel, 2007 * 88 Minutes
Moderated by Rabbi Cohen
Tickets: $10 Call 254-5110
Palestine 1947. Just a few months before Israel became a nation, an 11-year-old wants the occupying British to get out of his land. One evening after curfew he is seized by a British officer who kindly deposits him back to his home. What ensues is a friendship between these two would be foes, which the boy must keep a secret from his friends and family.
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