All events are FREE, open to everyone, accessible to the handicapped, and held at the BJE Jewish Community Library at 1835 Ellis Street in San Francisco.
Did we mention that garage parking is free and no RSVP is required?
This spring, the Library celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel with a community art exhibit, dance programs, films, and a conversation with Israelis living in the Bay Area. In other offerings, poets explore Torah and Psalms, writers explore Jewish mothers, Iran, and Eastern Europe, and cultural historians discuss Jews in art, theatre, and dance.
For more information, contact Rose Katz at 415.567.3327 x 703.
Community Artists Look at Israel
Exhibit runs April 1 - July 31
Curated by Barbara Mortkowitz
In 2008, Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary. In this exhibit, community artists reflect, reminisce, and dream about this historic moment and about the land, its people, and their relationship to them. In their work, they express their hopes, their disappointments, their wishes, their visions, and their feelings of connection to or distance from Israel.
Saturday, August 2, 11:45 am at the CineArts in Palo Alto
Sunday, August 10, 9:15 pm at the JCCSF
A Hebrew Lesson
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Northern California Premiere - David Ofek, Israel, 2006, 123 min. Color, Hebrew, English, Russian, Spanish, Chinese w/Eng. subtitles
The process of learning a language is always fraught with humor, frustration and pantomime. Yoela teaches a Hebrew immersion class (or ulpan) in Tel Aviv, and introduces herself in Hebrew relying on body language. Hailing from all five continents, her students are Oleh Chadashim, "New Ascenders." They start out as strangers, by the end of the film, the common challenges of a new society (job-seeking, separation from family, immigration officers and discrimination) unite them as friends.
Co-presented by Lehrhaus Judaica and BJE Jewish Community Library
For tickets and more information call 925-275-9490 or visit www.sfjff.org.
Saturday, August 2, 6:45 pm - Roda Theatre at the Berkeley Rep.
Monday, August 4, 7:00 pm - CineArts in Palo Alto
Sunday, August 9, 6:45 pm - Smith Rafael Film Center
Love Comes Lately
Centerpiece Film
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Jan Schutte, Australia, Germany, United States, 2007, 86 min., color, English
PRINCIPAL CAST Otto Tausig, Tovah Fledshuh, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey, Elisabeth
Love Comes Lately evokes the Nobel Prizewinning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer in word, spirit and deed in a winning film by Jan Schütte. At the center of three intertwined Singer stories is the elderly writer Max, who lives "in a state of permanent confusion," enhanced by a thriving libido and a vivid imagination that has his dream life merging with his waking, and both with his fictions. Starring Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman and Tovah Feldshuh.
The Centerpiece screening is sponsored by a generous grant from the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. Additional support provided by the Goethe-Institut. Berkeley Opening Night sponsored by Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen.
Co-presented by BJE Jewish Community Library and Hadassah, San Francisco Chapter
For tickets and more information call 925-275-9490 or visit www.sfjff.org.
