An Israeli Love Story

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An Israeli Love Story

March 15, 7:30 Q&A with AJC Director of Contemporary Jewish Life Steve Bayme and JBFC founder Steve Apkon with RECEPTION

2017. 93 m. Dan Wolman. Go2 Films. Israel. Hebrew with subtitles. Rated NR.

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“Dan Wolman’s new film avoids melodrama and sentimentality, and reinforces his stature as the most important independent filmmaker in Israeli cinema.” (Haaretz)

An Israeli Love Story is based on the actual love affair between actress/director Pnina Gary and Eli Ben-Zvi, son of author Rachel Yanait and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel’s second president. During the turbulent period of pre-state Israel, the two young people meet on a bus. Distracted by work, Eli fails to ask for a date. Eventually history moves on, true love flowers, and the couple set a date for their wedding—but Israel’s harsh reality intervenes.

SPONSORED BY AJC

Tickets: $10 (members), $15 (nonmembers)

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Q&A with AJC Director of Contemporary Jewish Life Steven Bayme and JBFC founder Steve Apkon with RECEPTION

Thursday, Mar. 15 2018, 7:30

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Dr. Steven Bayme serves as AJC’s Director of the Contemporary Jewish Life and also of AJC’s Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations. He has lectured widely across the country and taught at Yeshiva University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, and Queens College. His volumes include Understanding Jewish History: Texts and Commentary; Jewish Arguments and Counter-Arguments; and American Jewry’s Comfort Level. He has been on the Wexner Foundation Fellowship Committee, and was a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards. He has been named three times on the Forward’s annual list of the top 50 Jewish leaders who “make a difference.”

This film is part of the Westchester Jewish Film Festival 2018 series.