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In partnership with: Temple Jeremiah and Congregation Or Shalom

Community presenter: The Loop Synagogue

The scourge of gun violence has reached epidemic proportions across the United States. After every mass shooting, people point to gun violence in Chicago as an example of...

Immerse yourself in Israeli film. Enjoy four films by Israeli producer-director Eran Riklis and director Dina Zvi Riklis.

Set in the West Bank, where a Palestinian widow tends her lemon grove. When the Israeli Defense Minister moves in across...

Immerse yourself in Israeli film. Enjoy four films by Israeli producer-director Eran Riklis and director Dina Zvi Riklis.

Nominated for nine Israeli Academy Awards, Three Mothers is a multigenerational drama about beautiful triplets born in 1942 in Egypt, to...

Immerse yourself in Israeli film. Enjoy four films by Israeli producer-director Eran Riklis and director Dina Zvi Riklis.

An Israeli Mossad agent is sent to Germany to protect a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new...

Immerse yourself in Israeli film. Enjoy four films by Israeli producer-director Eran Riklis and director Dina Zvi Riklis.

Maya (13) arrives at a remote orphanage while Palestine is under the British Mandate. Her mother has left for America without...

Immerse yourself in Israeli film. Enjoy four films by Israeli producer-director Eran Riklis and director Dina Zvi Riklis.

Join us for our live talkback with Eran and Dina. The LIVE Q&A is included with your ticket reservation.

The Q&A will take place...

In 1908, when Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago, he traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique, mixed-use city block – a bank and adjoining hotel facing a park. By 1914, scandal and...

“Moshe Dayan was radioactive,” says his grandson, Sa’ar, as he tries to explain how throughout Dayan’s life and decades after his death, his family still struggles with the large shadow cast by one of the most interesting and enigmatic characters...

Presented by: JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival, YU Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago and the Midwest Center for Jewish Learning

Join the JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival, YU Torah Mitzion Kollel of Chicago and the Midwest Center for Jewish Learning for...

A funny and insightful four-episode TV documentary series showcasing the cultural and political influence of the Jewish community in the United States, the variety of alternative models it offers for living a rich Jewish life and the rifts in relations...

The Auschwitz Report, Slovakia’s 2020 Oscar submission for Best International Film, shares the true story of two Auschwitz prisoners who escaped and provided a rare firsthand report of genocide at the camp. We invite you to join us at Illinois...

1945. War is over. Switzerland, the neutral small country at the heart of Europe, was all but spared: Klara, her fiancé Johann and his brother Egon are looking bright-eyed into the future. While Klara tries to mend the wounds of...

Frank Stern is a Holocaust survivor from Germany. His half-brother was born in Switzerland and, as such, was not subject to arrest during the roundups of Jews that followed Kristallnacht. Because of his brother’s place of birth, the family was...