Event

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
In Person: Filmmakers ALAN SNITOW & DEBORAH KAUFMAN
Thursday, December 1 at 7:30pm Members $9 / Public $13 Includes Film, Discussion and Reception
Between Two Worlds tells five riveting stories that go beyond political postures to
reveal the passionate debates over identity and generational change inside
today's American Jewish community, including an incident at the San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival that rips the local Jewish community apart with charges of anti-Semitism
and self-hatred, McCarthyism and witch-hunts; America's leading Holocaust center
starts to build a tolerance museum in Jerusalem on a famous Muslim cemetery and
sparks a debate over the meaning and uses of history; and what happens when Jews
are torn between their support for the state of Israel and their anger at Israel's violation
of basic American Jewish ideals? The film takes us on a uniquely personal road-trip
that reframes intensely polarized debates over tradition and change, loyalty and dissent
inside one American ethnic community. USA, 2011, 95 min.