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Film Screenings - Jewish Life and Culture
Two or three times during each academic term, students and members of the General Theological Seminary community are invited to relax in the modern "smart classroom" of Sherred Hall to view a film related to Jewish life or culture.
In the past years, students and spouses viewed A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, a revealing documentary about this sect within Judaism, and I Am Joseph, Your Brother, the winner of the Silver Remi Award from the Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston, which follows the dramatic changes in the relations between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people over the past half-century, culminating in the pilgrimage of Pope John II to Israel in the year 2000.
In one recent year, as part of the annual Yom HaShoah observance, students joined with members of the Village Temple for a screening of My Knees were Jumping: Stories of the Kindertransport which chronicles one of the lesser-known stories of the Holocaust - that of the kindertransport which saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children. CJCSR presented a screening of Trembling Before G-D. This award-winning documentary is built around intimately told personal stories of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews who are gay or lesbian and who must reconcile their passionate love of Judaism with the Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality.
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