SJFF Zoom Chats: The Fourth Window Q&A | Glickman Q&A | United States of Elie Tahari Q&A | With No Land | Caregiver: A Love Story | Community Havdalah | A Tree of Life | The Invisibles (Bet Haverim)
Other Zoom Chats: Song Searcher | An irrepressible Woman | Neighbors | The Tiger Within | The Invisibles | Plan A | 1618 | The Lesson
This event has been completed. You can view the recording of the February 9 @ 8:30 am Zoom chat regarding the film The Fourth Window by clicking the player to the right.
Zoom chat regarding the late author Amos Oz, an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual, and the subject of the film “The Fourth Window“.
Date: Wednesday February 9, 2022
Time: 8:30 am PST
Panel Members:
Yair Qedar, Filmmaker. Israeli filmmaker and civil-rights activist Yair Qedar has directed over 20 films including The Hebrews — a documentary project on the Hebrew and Jewish literary canon, centered on filmic portraits of Hebrew writers from the 17th century to recent days.
Adar Cohen, Chair of the Teacher Education department at the Seymour Fox school of Education in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Cohen is currently visit
Watch the recorded Zoom Chat by clicking below. You can enlarge the player to full screen by clicking on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video.
Watch the recorded Zoom Chat by clicking below. You can enlarge the player to full screen by clicking on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video.
Join us for a Zoom chat regarding the film “With No Land“.
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm. PST
Panel Members:
Award winning script writer and director, born in 1979 in Awash, Ethiopia, Aalam-Warqe Davidian immigrated to Israel in 1991. She graduated from Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. In 2012 Aalam-Warqe along with Kobi Davidian co-funded Black and White films. In 2016 her short fiction film FACING THE WALL won Best Short Film at the 33rd Jerusalem International Film Festival. As her other short fiction film TRANSITIONS has screened in festivals around the world. Aalam-Warqe’s 2018 debut feature-length drama FIG TREE screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Eurimages Audentia Award for Best Female Director. In 2021 her 83min, documentary WITH NO LAND has screened in Israeli public TV channel and starting its festival tour. HONEY TRAP her current documentary is still in production.
Kobi Davidian, director and producer, was born in 1980 in Jerusalem, Israel. He graduated from the Arts and Cinema program at Tel Aviv University in 2006. Kobi has worked as a researcher and a producer for different TV shows and documentary films before starting his career as an independent filmmaker. In 2012 he co-funded Black and White films along with Aalam-Warqe Davidian. His documentary TURBULENCE (2011, 83min, YesDocu) and short fiction TRANSITIONS (2016) films were screened and won prizes in festivals around the world. In 2018, he produced and directed a testimonial archive, MEMORIES OF ETHIOPIA, for the Israeli national archive. In 2021 his 83min, documentary WITH NO LAND has screened in Israeli public TV channel and starting its festival tour. HONEY TRAP his current documentary is still in production.
Beejhy Barhany is an entrepreneur, and activist, who was born in Ethiopia, raised in Israel, and currently resides in New York. At a very young age, she emigrated to Israel. She acclimated to Israeli life, living in a kibbutz and joining the army. Soon after she traveled across South America for a year, and again emigrated, this time to the US. She is the founder of the BINA Cultural Foundation non-profit dedicated to celebrating and advocating for Ethiopian Jews in North America. Today, she is the chef and owner of an eclectic Ethiopian restaurant, Tsion Café, that incorporates cuisine from the many places that have been influential on her journeys.
Darrell Steinberg is one of Sacramento’s most accomplished public servants, serving the Sacramento community for more than 30 years. When Tahoe Park was having trouble with gangs, the community organized and formed the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association, electing Darrell Steinberg as its first President. In 1992, Steinberg was elected to the City Council, where he focused on making neighborhoods safe, creating good jobs, and providing quality after-school programs. Steinberg served in the State Assembly from 1998 to 2004, and in the State Senate from 2006 through 2014. He became President of the Senate in 2008. Steinberg championed economic development, education reform, building sustainable communities and major investments in healthcare and education. He authored the Mental Health Services Act, the first of its kind in the nation that generates more than $3 billion dollars a year for people in need.
Steinberg became mayor of Sacramento in 2016. As mayor, Darrell Steinberg has secured significant new resources to tackle difficult problems such as homelessness and economic inequity in Sacramento.
Darrell Steinberg and his wife, Julie, have two grown children, Jordana, and Ari. Darrell is a graduate of UCLA and UC Davis Law School. Julie Steinberg is the cantor at Congregation B’nai Israel.
Watch the recorded Zoom Chat by clicking below. You can enlarge the player to full screen by clicking on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video.
Watch the recorded Zoom Chat by clicking below. You can enlarge the player to full screen by clicking on the square in the bottom right hand corner of the video.
Please join us for our 2nd annual Community Havdalah ceremony via Zoom. Havdalah is a Jewish service which marks the end of Shabbat and the transition into the new week!
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2022
Time: 7:30 pm PST
Participants: The Havdalah ceremony will be led by Rabbi Matt Friedman, President of the Sacramento Board of Rabbis, with participation from Rabbis from throughout the greater Sacramento region, and beyond.
Join us for a Zoom chat regarding the film A Tree of Life, and the events that motivated the filmmaker to produce this film.
Date: Monday, March 14, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM, PST
In Pittsburgh in 2018, a white supremacist opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history. The survivors recount the harrowing experience and detail how their lives have fundamentally changed. Executive Produced by Michael Keaton and Mark Cuban, and directed by Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning director Trish Adlesic, A Tree of Life confronts the “moral decay of humanity” and takes a larger look at the hate-based crisis stemming from the political climate. As the first film to document the survivor’s stories and the only documentary with this level of personal access to the survivors and families of the victims, viewers will experience first-hand how the lives of those directly affected have fundamentally changed and how the Pittsburgh community and the congregations set out on a path towards healing.
Panel Members:
Trish Adlesic is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning producer/director. A Pittsburgh native who was at her childhood home the day of the heinous attack, Trish teamed with Josh Fox and HBO to produce Gasland and Gasland II, which received an Academy Award nomination and won an Emmy. These seminal documentaries expose the environmental devastation and public safety hazards of “fracking.” Trish and Josh Fox led a diverse group of stakeholders to use the film to advocate for and then pass the first ban on fracking in America, in Trish’s hometown of Pittsburgh.
Brad Orsini joined the Secure Community Network (SCN) as the Senior National Security Advisor in January 2020. SCN is the official safety and security organization for the Jewish community in North America, formed under the auspices of The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. In his role, Mr. Orsini provides security consultations, training, and direct response to critical incidents to Jewish Communities across North America.
Audrey Glickman is a rabbi’s assistant, with prior experience in nonprofits, government, advertising, and as a legal secretary. A native Pittsburgher, Audrey has served on many boards, organizations, and committees, advocating for many causes, including equal rights, secure recountable voting, preserving the earth, good government, improving institutions, and understanding and tending to our fellow human beings. Ms. Glickman is a survivor of the Tree of Life attack.
Susan Margolin has built a reputation as a pioneer of home entertainment and digital distribution and a dedicated supporter of the independent filmmaking community. Her company, New Video, launched in 1992 with partner Steve Savage, became a leading global force in independent home entertainment. New Video’s library of films, television and web content, featured programming from leading brands including A+E, History Channel, Monty Python, Thames Television, Sundance Institute, Tribeca films, Major League Baseball and Scholastic.
Barry Werber was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduation he joined the U.S. Air Force. After his discharge, he came home to Pittsburgh. He is a survivor of the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
Willie Recht is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region. Having worked as a Jewish professional for over a decade, Willie brings a wealth of Jewish communal and development experience, including positions with the: Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado, where he served as Major Gifts Officer and Women’s Philanthropy manager; and Keshet (formerly Jewish Mosaic) – where he started Colorado’s Queer Seder and Pride Shabbat. Willie and his husband Peter, and their two Frenchie’s Daisy & Winnie,, moved from Denver in 2015. Prior to the Jewish Federation, Willie was the Development Officer at The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Willie has also served on the Board of the Sacramento LGBTQ Community Center and is a graduate of the American Leadership Forum, Class XXIV.
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Join Congregation Bet Haverim for a Zoom chat regarding the film The Invisibles.
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Time: 2:00 PM, PST
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Panel Members:
Moyshe Beregovsky, musician and scholar, crisscrossed Ukraine from the 1920s on to record the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry on fragile wax cylinders. With tremendous dedication in the face of the hardships Jews faced in Ukraine and under Soviet rule, Beregovsky saved the musical heritage of centuries-old Yiddish civilization, but ultimately paid for it with his life.
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With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film tells of a childhood that, between dictatorship and dark drama, also has its light moments. How much friendship, love, and solidarity are possible in times of repression and despotism?
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In the final performance of his illustrious career, multiple Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner — who died in late August 2021 at the age of 91 — portrays Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who develops an unlikely bond with Casey, a homeless Midwestern teenager. This is the first movie for Margot Josefsohn, age 14, who portrays Casey.
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While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight. Fred Rosenbaum places the German drama “The Invisibles” into its historic and cultural context, as he explores the Jews of Berlin then and now.
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In 1945, a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors develop a plan to poison the water system in Nuremberg, Germany. Based on actual events, this film tells the story of a dangerous and bold secret operation that the plotters called “Plan A.”
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This historical drama is based on a true story: the visitation by the Visitador Sebastião Noronha to Porto in 1618. At the time the entire population was exhorted to denounce heresies under pain of excommunication. In a city where a large part of the population had Jewish ancestry, over one hundred New Christians, among others, were imprisoned, causing terror in the New Christian community, mass emigration, and the near-total destruction of the city’s economy. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares devises an escape plan.
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At the age of 14, every school child in Germany is forced to confront the reality of the Holocaust, often for the first time. Filmed over five years, from 2014 to 2019, the film is a window into deeply rooted social and political attitudes in Germany amidst the resurgence of the far right, xenophobia, and a fractured, disparate collective memory of the nation’s history.
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