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JCC Chicago Film Festival + Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Film & Discussion: A Call To Spy January 14, 6:30 pm (CST) | Virtual program

When winning World War II seemed hopeless, one group of extraordinary women changed the course of history forever.

As...

Living Art follows the life of Mara Clawson, a brilliant visual artist battling a life-threatening genetic disease. As she prepares for the largest gallery show of her young career, Mara shows us what it means to create a life inspired...

This essential and edifying documentary chronicles the history of the Black-Jewish alliance in America. Revisiting critical points in history when Black and Jewish Americans faced hardships due to segregation and racism, the film begins with the founding of the NAACP...

This program is proudly supported by the Israel Engagement Fund: A JCC Association of North America Program Accelerator, made possible by the generosity of several committed donors.

The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a...

In partnership with: North Suburban Synagogue Beth El

In Berlin in the 1930’s, the civil rights of Jews were systematically stripped away. A young rabbi refused to be silent. His name was Joachim Prinz and he set out to restore the...

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...