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From James L. Freedman, the director of the critically acclaimed HBO documentary Glickman (Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese), comes his follow up film, Carl Laemmle. This is the extraordinary life story of a true Jewish American hero, who founded Universal...

Heading Home follows a team of current and former Jewish Major League Baseball players on their first trip to Israel and their journey to capture Israel’s first baseball championship.

English, 91 minutes

Facilitated discussion with Suzanne Patterson

All are welcome to attend...

Chicago Loves Israel special film screening

Omri, a young soldier injured in Gaza, is in a coma. His situation is between life and death. His loving Family and loyal friends fight for him, through emotional and funny situations. It’s a story...

What happens when faith is tested by love, and love is tested by faith? In a world that can seem increasingly polarized and tribal, interfaith families are crossing borders. Leaps of Faiths traces several paths: practicing a single faith and...

Eli (Ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the first time when he makes him the subject of an animated art project for school. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the high school senior discovers...

Seventeen-year-old Franz journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There, he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music-hall...

Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony, as this final masterpiece by the author of “The Miracle Worker,” William Gibson, makes its motion picture debut. The film—a rare, multi-camera shoot from the play’s original run—was...

Above the Drowning Sea tells the story of the dramatic escape of European Jews from Nazi-controlled Europe to Shanghai on the eve of World War Two. As Hitler’s forces sought to expel the Jews from Europe, no other country would open...

What happens when faith is tested by love, and love is tested by faith? In a world that can seem increasingly polarized and tribal, interfaith families are crossing borders. Leaps of Faiths traces several paths: practicing a single faith and...

More than 50 years after World War II, a young investigative reporter, spurred on by a Holocaust survivor, finds herself caught between multiple versions of the same story in Jeff Cohen’s play The Soap Myth. Deadlines, integrity, and the question of whom...

A bee (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld), who is unhappy just making honey ventures outside the hive into New York City, where his life is saved by a florist named Vanessa (voiced by Renée Zellweger).

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 91 minutes | 2007 *Closed...

Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 113 minutes | 2017 *Closed Captioned

Start time is approximate, all...

Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters 5th grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Fee: Free Ages: All Ages

PG | 113 minutes | 2017 *Closed Captioned

Start time is approximate, all...