2007
February 2007
Sunday 11 February 2007
Sun 11 Feb, 8 pm. the winner of the 2005 Israeli Academy Awards gives us a glance on the tough and bittersweet life stories of desperate men and women on the fringes of Israeli society, looking for someplace to call home. Directed by Eyal Chalfon, starring Uri Gavriel. Moderated by Ravit Turjeman, founder and director of Dragoman Films, specializing in marketing and distribution of Israeli Cinema in North America. 411 E Clinton Ave, Tenafly. 201·569·7900. 10. Jewish Community Center on the Palisades - [email][events]
Saturday 24 February 2007
Sat 24 Feb, 8 pm. (translated from Hebrew) This love story takes place in the Tel Aviv of the 1990’s. It is an urban novel, crowded and claustrophobic, like the protagonists’ inner worlds. A novel about couples and single-parent families, about adolescence and old age, about coming to terms with parents and leaving them, about passion, death, happiness and the yearning for a child. 411 E Clinton Ave, Tenafly. 201·569·7900. 10. Jewish Community Center on the Palisades - [email][events]
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Tue 27 Feb, 8 pm. Janna Malamud Smith On the twentieth anniversary of Bernard Malamud’s death, Janna Malamud Smith explores her father’s private, unpublished letters and journals to remember the life of a seminal writer of our time. Malamud left New York and his immigrant father’s failing grocery store, and his mother’s madness, for a humble position at an Oregon agricultural college. Smith remembers his demanding, ambitious writing schedule and his marriage’s fragile balance, but also his charm, humor, and devotion. 411 E Clinton Ave, Tenafly. 201·569·7900. 10. Jewish Community Center on the Palisades - [email][events]