UJPO - Toronto
Special Events
Film screening:
Between Two Worlds: The Jewish
American Cultural Wars
Thursday February 16, 2012
7 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street
(presented in partnership with Beit Zatoun)
$5.00 (minimum admission)
Who speaks about a divided community at the crossroads? Betweeen Two Worlds is a groundbreaking personal exploration of the community and family divisions that are redefining American Jewish identity and politics. The filmmakers’ own families are battlegrounds over loyalty to Israel, interpretations of the Holocaust, intermarriage and a conversion to Islam and a secret Communist past. Filmed in the United States and Israel, this first person documentary begins with a near riot at a Jewish Film Festival in San Francisco, reveals the agonizing battle over divestment from Israel on a university campus, and shows the crackdown on dissent in Israel itself.
The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion.
