FILM NIGHTS

SUMMER 2011

What: Presenting Films with Jewish Content
When: Wednesday nights in July & August at 7:30 pm
Where: Chabad Community Center, 472 Third Avenue
Refreshments: Popcorn & Drinks
No Cost!!

Bring your friends and neighbors!
For more information, call (619) 702-8518 or email info@ChabadDowntown.com

Summer Film Schedule  

Wednesday, July 13th

Sensitivity: The Rebbe's Compassionate Attention to "The Little Things"
This video presents 15 stories of individuals who experienced the Rebbe's care and attention to their smallest needs, exploring through each retelling the global reach of the Rebbe's personal touch .  It demonstrates how the Rebbe related to every person with the same intensity, depth of understanding, and familial concern.

 

Wednesday, July 27th
Four Seasons Lodge

Haunted by the past but driven by an unquenchable passion for living, an aging group of Holocaust survivors gathers each summer at an idyllic hideaway in the Catskills, where they savor tightly bonded friendships and celebrate their survival.
 

  
 

Wednesday, August 3rd
Masada - Based on History
Flavius Silva, commander in Roman Palestine, wants to reach a reasonable compromise with the Jewish Zealots and withdraw his legion. Events in Rome lead to his besieging the fortress of Masada. There the engineering genius of the Romans must fight both the harsh climate and landscape and the passion of Eleazar Ben Yair.

  

                     Wednesday, August 17th
Undercover in Damascus

Israel’s most famous spy, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as an undercover Mossad agent. The secrets he obtained proved crucial to Israel's victory in the Six-Day War. The film “Undercover in Damascus” chronicles Eli Cohen’s dangerous and dramatic mission.    

   

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Previous viewing include:
2010 -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Faithful & Fortified, Keeping Up With the Steins, Beaufort, Crimes & Misdemeanors, The World of Shalom Aleichem, The Counterfeiters
2009 - Small Time Crooks, Defiance, The Disputation, Eretz Zavat Chalav, Frisco Kid, Escape from Sobibor, The Chosen, Munich,
2008 - Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Burial Society, Prisoner of Honor, Israel: Never a Dull Moment, Paperclips,
2007 - Hester Street, The Life & Times of Hank Greenberg, Raid on Entebbe, & The Code Conspiracy.