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Chanukah In July
Sunday July 29 from 6:00pm
Light up your winter nights with Chanukah in July!
Warm up the cold winter with a night of light and wonder as we celebrate Chanukah
in July.
Join us for a warming meal with the traditional Chanukah fare, music and a journey
through the 8 decades of our synagogue as we light 8 candles and tell 8 stories.
Bookings now open at tinyurl.com/julymenorah
Plus61J together with Emanuel Synagogue present
Israel, Jews & the Middle East
through film
Join us each month for a fascinating festival of film followed by engaging discussion
12th September
Walk on Water (2005, 104 minutes)
The Sabra and the Shoah – The end of the dream?
Eyal is an agent in Mossad, the Israeli security service and the agency decides that he needs to take
on a less challenging assignment: to find an aging Nazi war criminal and get him "before God does".
10th October
Immigration from Arab countries
Farewell Baghdad / The Dove Flyer (2013, 105 minutes)
An Israeli film takes us through the story of a 16-year-old Jewish boy, and depicts the story
of the last days of the Baghdad Jewish community of the 1950s, and on the eve of the
Aliyah of almost all of that community to Israel in Operation Ezra and Nehemiah.
14th November The Palestinian point of view
Paradise Now (2006, 90 minutes) -Follows Palestinian childhood friends Said and Khaled who live in Nablus
and have been recruited for suicide attacks in Tel Aviv. It focuses on what would be their last days together.
12th December Gotta be Happy” – Yiddish humor in America
The Komediant (2004, 85 Minutes)
Wistful and melancholy recollections of Yiddish theatre are conveyed in this
documentary, which centers on the story of the Burstein family.
Book now: emanuel.org.au/films
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