October Happenings

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Introducing Highlights of the 2025-2025 Season!

THE PLOTKIN FAMILY AM YISRAEL CHAI SERIES

A People, A Land, A Legacy

An Evening of Art, Reflection & Conversation

Commemorating the 2nd Yahrtzeit

of the 1200 Victims of October 7

Monday, October 20

7:00 PM - Opening Reception

THE SCHWARTZ-JACOBS ART GALLERY PRESENTS

No Words

An Exhibition by Israeli Artists Remembering October 7

No Words explores trauma, resilience,

and hope through powerful contemporary Jewish art.

Special Guest: Exhibition Curator – Rami Ozeri

Created by the Jerusalem Biennale, the world’s largest platform for

contemporary Jewish art, and founded by Rami Ozeri,

7:30 PM - A Conversation with Yaakov Katz

Author of While Israel Slept:

How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East

Acclaimed journalist and former Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz

shares insights from his timely and powerful new book.

In conversation with Dr. Bella Krieger, Director of Adult Learning and Growth at CAJE-Miami.

Free and Open to the Community

Light refreshments will be served.

Thursday, October 30, 7:30 PM

One-Woman Show

Stories from the Brink:

My Festive Near Death Adventures

Starring Award Winning Actress

Iris Bahr

(Curb Your Enthusiasm, Hacks, Friends and More)

Limited Early Bird Tickets Available!

Winner of the Montreal Fringe Fest 2024 Frankie Award, Stories from the Brink is a wild, touching and hilariously poignant journey through Ms. Bahr’s near death adventures,including October 7 in Israel.

Sponsored by the

Plotkin Family Am Yisrael Chai Series and support from the Mitchabrim JCCA/Israel Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.

Israeli Film Series

Monday, November 3, 7:30 PM

June Zero

June Zero is set in 1962 Israel, where, after an emotional public trial, Adolf Eichmann — one of the key architects of the Holocaust — has been tried and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and crimes against the Jewish people.  The film explores the experiences of three characters involved in this nation-defining event.



Monday, December 15, 7:30 PM

Matchmaking 2

Step into the world of love, laughter, and a touch of mischief with Israel’s biggest box office hit of the year, Full of joy, warmth, and the ultimate romantic entanglements, this refreshing and feel-good romantic dramady returns to the charming world of Orthodox Jewish dating, telling a heartfelt and humorous tale of tradition, family, and finding love in the most unexpected places.

Monday, January 5, 7:30 PM

Forgiveness

Set during the Days of Awe in a small town in southern Israel, Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon (Maktub) play two friends, Nissan and Shaul, who are bumbling thieves that are hilariously and desperately attempting to pull off a heist.  

Also starring Alon Abutbul.

Monday, February 9, 7:30 PM

Road to Eilat

Winner of Best Israeli Film, Best Actor, and Best Cinematography at the Jerusalem Film Festival, Road to Eilat is a semi-autobiographical bittersweet tale about estranged father and son Kibbutzniks who set off on an eventful road trip across Israel on an old tractor.

Monday, March 16, 7:30 PM

Love in Suspenders

When absent-minded widow Tami accidentally hits 70-year-old widower Beno with her car, the last thing on her mind is love and romance. Against her wishes, and although she finds it hard to move on following her husband’s death, Tami starts falling for Beno, who is head over heels in love with her

The Israeli Film Series is presented in partnership with The Miami Jewish Film Festival and generously sponsored by South Pointe Tavern.

Barbara Eisenberg Literary Series

Wednesday, November 12, 12:30 PM

Rebecca Wolf

Alive and Beating

Inspired by a true sto­ry, Alive and Beat­ing fol­lows six peo­ple through diverse back­grounds and neigh­bor­hoods through­out Jerusalem on the day their lives will for­ev­er be changed. In a place where ancient divides often seem insur­mount­able, these sev­en char­ac­ters are unit­ed despite their dif­fer­ences by a shared goal of becom­ing healthy and find­ing mean­ing in their lives.

Wednesday, December 10, 12:30 pm

 Marilyn Simon Rothstein

Who Loves You Best

Who Loves You Best revolves around Jodi Wexler, a grandmother who travels to help her daughter with her granddaughter and discovers she has to compete with two other “grandmothers.”  The rela­tion­ship between the three women evolves from dis­like, self-cen­tered jeal­ousy, and one-upman­ship to some­thing more pos­i­tive.

Wednesday, January 7,

12:30 PM

Alka Joshi

Six Days in Bombay

Six Days in Bom­bay is about strong women and friend­ship, fac­ing one’s fears, and accept­ing help and enjoy­ing love when it presents itself This work of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion is a page-turn­er with an ele­ment of mys­tery. Begin­ning in 1937 Bom­bay and mov­ing to Istan­bul, Prague, and Flo­rence, it fol­lows Sona, a half Indi­an, half British young nurse liv­ing with her beloved seam­stress moth­er in a tiny apartment. 

Wednesday, February 18, 12:30 PM

Mary Morris

The Red House

The Red House’s pro­tag­o­nist is Lau­ra, a forty-two-year-old Amer­i­can and a pro­fes­sion­al ​“home stager.

 Laura’s jour­ney takes her to a series of hous­es down the Adri­at­ic coast­line, and she begins to uncov­er a fam­i­ly saga that stretch­es back to the 1940s.

Wednesday March 18,

12:30 PM

Christine Kuehn

Family of Spies



A propul­sive, nev­er-before-told sto­ry of one German family’s (with Jewish roots) shock­ing involve­ment as Nazi and Japan­ese spies dur­ing WWII and the piv­otal role they played in the bomb­ing of Pearl Har­bor.

Jump­ing back and forth from Chris­tine dis­cov­er­ing her family’s secret to the untold past of spies in Ger­many, Japan and Hawaii, Fam­i­ly of Spies is fast-paced his­to­ry at its finest, and will rewrite the nar­ra­tive of Decem­ber 7, 1941.

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