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January 24th, 2020
 
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Shabbat Times: 
Candle Lighting
Evening service at CBIOTP
Morning Service at CBIOTP
M inha at CBIOTP 
4:45  pm
7:00 pm 
9:30 am
4:15 pm
 
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IN THIS ISSUE...
Birthdays and Anniversaries 
Michael Glantz
Gloria Deutsch
Charlene Stern
Randy Karpman
Charles Shatz
Stuart Kimberly
Howard Schefflan

  Florence & Norman Silverberg
Trudi & Robert Mohl
 
 


   UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Satu8day 1/25
Morning Service at CBIOTP 9:30 am 
Minha , S'uda Shlishit (3rd Shabbat Meal), timely topic, Maariv and Havdalah 4:15 pm at CBIOTP
Thursday 1/30 Rabbi's Class 
10:30 am
Friday 1/31
Bible Study 11:30 am
Evening Service 7:00 pm
 
Official Website of the US Election for the 38th World Zionist Congress  Voting is now Open!

Unfortunately it is a 2-step process...first you have to register... and pay a fee before you can vote... Fortunately I will reimburse you!  kas
Most Jews have never heard of the World Zionist Congress, and those that have probably learned about it in history class. It was founded over a century ago by Theodor Herzl.
But the Congress still exists, and it's actually really important. That's because when it meets every five years, elected delegates makes major decisions about two things: how to spend nearly $5 billion that goes to Jewish organizations and programs in Israel and around the world, and who should serve as board members for other influential, affluent organizations, like the Jewish Agency for Israel, the Jewish National Fund and the World Zionist Organization.
And if you are reading this, there's a good chance you can have a say in all this - by voting in the World Zionist Congress elections, which are just about to start. The elections are how American Jews will decide who will serve in the Congress.

The 21st World Zionist Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, 1939.
Are the elections especially important this year?
Yes, because more people are running, and more people are voting. For example: The Reform movement used the last election to get more of a say over whether to buy land in the West Bank, and they're still working on that issue. (Read more below.) Organizers are expecting turnout to grow this year. 15 parties are running, three more than last year.  "There are more slates running across the board; there are more candidates running. Overall there's more interest, which hopefully will lead to more engagement," said Herbert Block, the executive director of the American Zionist Movement, which runs the elections.





2020 Census

You may have seen Senator Bob Menendez's roll-out of a campaign to get everyone counted for the 2020 census, starting with the NJ Latino Community, The Senator said, ""When it comes to the Census, it's no exaggeration to say that if you don't get counted, you literally do not count. Your voice in our democracy will go unheard, because Census data determines how congressional districts are drawn, how many seats there are, and how strong New Jersey's leverage is in the federal government. Your community will go underfunded, because Census data determines how nearly $675 billion in federal grants, loans, direct payments and other programs are divided up between the states-nearly $23 billion for New Jersey alone."
What's true for New Jersey, goes doubly for Fort Lee, where we believe there was a huge undercount in 2010, resulting in a loss of federal funding revenue amounting to $30,000 per uncounted person over the course of the last decade.
That's how much you are worth to Fort Lee over the coming decade: $30,000!
To that end I have been appointed to a Fort Lee taskforce, The Complete Count Committee, to dispel myths about the Census, and to encourage you-and to help you-to participate in the Census, which begins in earnest in April.
kas




















 
A  REMINDER:
Our daily minyanimare all held in our Office Chapel:    
 Sunday - Thursday evenings at 7:45 p.m.   
 Monday - Friday mornings at 7:00 a.m.  
 Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m.
All our Shabbat servicesare held in the CBIOTP building:    
Friday evening at 7:00 p.m.                                                                                                                                            
Shabbat morning at 9:30 a.m.                                                                                                                                               
Shabbat afternoon/evening (mincha, s'uda sh'lishit, ma'ariv, havdalah)                                                                       
currently at 4:15 p.m.(but the time will change/vary with sunset)


Torah Rea ding 351    Haftarah 370
VA-ERA
God reiterates to Moses that the binding promise He made to the Patriarchs, to bring their descendents from servitude to freedom, and ultimately to dominion in Canaan, would be fulfilled. But an unrelenting, unmoved Pharaoh, who imposes increased hardships on the Israelites, makes them grow more despondent. Pharaoh is unimpressed by Aaron's staff being transformed into a serpent - because the Egyptian magicians can do the same thing - even when it swallows the Egyptian magicians' rods.
 
So God begins to inflict plague after plague upon Egypt, with no lasting effect upon Pharaoh. Occasionally Pharaoh concedes, but once a plague abates, Pharaoh reverts to his hard-hearted posture. This pattern repeats itself through the seven plagues enumerated in our sidra: blood, frogs, lice, swarming insects, cattle plague, boils and hail.
 
Tonight: Evening service at 7:00 p.m.
Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m.
Minha, Seudah Shlishit, Ma'ariv & Havdalah at 4:15 p.m.
We were snowed out last Shabbat afternoon, so during Seudah Shlishit tomorrow we will continue reading this fascinating article (part analysis; part memoir): Finding Terrorist Needles in the Internet Haystack       
An Interview with Arik Barbing, former head of the Shin Bet security agency's cyber department
    
This Week's Yahrzeit Observances
We hope that our weekly listing of yahrzeit observances will serve 2 purposes:
1)     To remind those who have the yahrzeit for a second time, much closer to the date of the actual observance
2)     To alert friends and acquaintances that someone they know is observing a yahrzeit. We hope that you will show them your support by joining them at our minyanim, and helping to assure that Kaddish can be recited with a minyan 
        
Florence Silverberg will be observing yahrzeit for her mother, Mary Berman on Friday evening, January 24th
Elsie Zeilberger will be observing yahrzeit for her sister, Tillie Falkenstein on Friday evening, January 24th
Abraham Ravid will be observing yahrzeit for his father, Yitzhak Jan Ravid on Friday evening, January 24th
Charles Shatz will be observing yahrzeit for his father, Irving Shatz on Saturday evening, January 25th
Nancy Vorbach will be observing yahrzeit for her mother, Bernice Weissler on Saturday evening, January 25th
Arnold Grodman will be observing yahrzeit for his father, Joseph Grodman on Sunday evening, January 26th
Rochelle Carus will be observing yahrzeit for her father, Julius Edelman on Monday evening, January 27th
Alfred Strauss will be observing yahrzeit for his mother, Lilly Strauss on Tuesday evening, January 28th
Franco Aguilar will be observing yahrzeit for his daughter, Eithlyn Aguilar on Thursday evening, January 30th
Lore Benario will be observing yahrzeit for her mother, Erna Livingston on Thursday evening, January 30th
         















T"U b"Sh'vat is Monday February 10. We will have a special treat table at the Shabbat Kiddush on February 8th in honor of t"U b'Sh'vat





75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Camps, Beginning with Auschwitz
Monday, January 27
Attached to/included in to this email is information on events taking place at the UN as part of their annual (and this year, expanded) commemorations and observances. Kas
The Gates of Hell: Auschwitz 75 Years On  
The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on 27 January 1945. As one survivor, now aged 90, prepares to commemorate the date, she explains why the Holocaust must never be forgotten ... especially in an age of rising antisemitism and nationalism 
Survivors: Faces of Life After the Holocaust    
75 pictorial portraits of Holocaust survivor                                                                  
Why Muslims from Around the World Should Remember the Holocaust                                                                      
By Mohammad Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Musli m World League and President of the International Organization of Muslim Scholars, based in Mecca.     
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Almost Didn't Happen                                                      
World Leaders Gather in Jerusalem to Mark Holocaust                                                                  
               
Palestinians Protest World Leaders' Visit to Jerusalem for Holocaust Forum                                                              
PA Daily Calls for Attack on Holocaust Ceremony in Jerusalem                                                               
Israel Warns Hamas Against Trying to Disrupt Holocaust Gathering                                                  
Nazi Official Who Saved Hundreds of Jews Recognized as Righteous Among the Nations                                    
At Holocaust Memorial, a Survivor Says He "Cannot Forgive"                                                      
 
Only Novel Written at Auschwitz to be Published in English                                    
  'Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival From Within the Camp' was written by Elizaer de Wind in the days immediately after the camp's liberation by the Red Army 


Guess Where We Are Going for February's On the Road  To YIVO!

2020 Holocaust Remembrance Calendar of Events
75 years after Auschwitz -
Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the ending of the Second World War, and the ending of the Holocaust. 2020 also marks the establishment of the United Nations, formed in response to atrocity crimes of the Holocaust and the Second World War, with the aim of building a world that is just and peaceful. Acknowledging the milestone year, the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme has chosen as the theme for Holocaust education and remembrance in 2020, "75 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice". The theme reflects the continued importance, 75 years after the Holocaust, of collective action against antisemitism and other forms of bias to ensure respect for the dignity and human rights of all people everywhere.

Monday, 27 January 2020
United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Venue: General Assembly Hall
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 21 January)
The ceremony, taking place 75 years to the day of the liberation by the Soviet forces of Auschwitz Birkenau Nazi German concentration and extermination camp (1940-1945), will be hosted by Ms. Melissa Fleming, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. Invited speakers include the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the President of the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Permanent Representatives of Germany, Israel and the United States to the United Nations, Mr. Castro Wesamba, Chief of Office, Office on Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect, and Mr. Dan Pavel Doghi, Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti Issues, OSCE/ODIHR. Holocaust survivors Mr. Shraga Milstein and Ms. Irene Shashar will share their testimonies. Judge Theodor Meron, who served as the President of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, will deliver the keynote speech. Cantor Shulem Lemmer will recite the memorial prayers. Mr. Itzhak Perlman will deliver a musical contribution.


Exhibition "Seeing Auschwitz"
Venue: United Nations Visitors Lobby
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 21 January)
The exhibition Seeing Auschwitz challenges the viewer's understanding of the largest killing centre in human history. How Auschwitz is 'seen' is informed by a relatively small number of photographs taken from an even smaller number of sources. Together, the pictures are vital evidence of the Nazis' crimes. Through a display of photographs taken by perpetrators and in one instance, by the victims themselves, the exhibition encourages the viewer to explore more fully what the photographs reveal about the photographers, and their intentions, and how this informs the viewers' understanding of the meaning of "Auschwitz". The exhibition was created and curated by Musealia, Spain, in collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Poland. The exhibition will be on view until 24 February 2020.

Panel Discussion
"Safe Haven: Jewish Refugees in the Philippines"
Venue: Conference Room 4, UNHQ
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Contact: rsvpun@bnaibrith.org
B'nai B'rith International and the Philippine Permanent Mission to the United Nations, in cooperation with the US-Philippines Society, will host a program on Jewish refugees who fled Europe and found safe haven in the Philippines before World War II. Guest speakers will discuss Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon's "Open Door Policy" in 1938. RSVP required by 17 January 2020.

Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Exhibition "Crimes Uncovered:
The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers"
Venue: United Nations Visitors Lobby
Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 21 January)
This exhibition examines Jewish historians and academics of various nationalities and backgrounds who documented and safeguarded evidence of the actions taken against the Jewish people during the Holocaust and lobbied to draw attention to what was happening in Nazi-occupied Europe. By so doing, these historians and academics resisted the Nazi plan to destroy all Jewish people and culture and pioneered the establishment of an international legal framework accompanying the establishment of the United Nations. The first generation of Holocaust researchers shaped the foundation of our current knowledge of the Holocaust. The exhibition was curated by the Memorial and Educational Site House of the Wannsee-Conference in Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin branch of the Touro College and the Wiener Library in London. It has been sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The exhibition will be on view until 24 February 2020.


Exhibit "Lonka Project"
Venue: 1B Corridor, United Nations
Time: 3:00 p.m.
REGISTER NOW
The Lonka Project is a photographic tribute to the last Holocaust survivors with us today. Throughout 2019 some 250 of the world's leading professional photographers, in some 24 countries, generously contributed their time and talent, each capturing a Holocaust survivor in the context that makes a unique and memorable statement about their lives. The exhibit will be on view from the 27th January 2020 until the 7th February 2020, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
Exhibition "Some were Neighbours:
Choice, Human Behaviour, and the Holocaust"

Venue: United Nations Visitors Lobby
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 24 January)
The exhibition "Some were Neighbours" addresses one of the central questions of the Holocaust: how did it happen? The exhibition examines the role of ordinary people in the Holocaust, and the variety of motives that influenced individual choices. These influences often reflect fear, indifference, antisemitism, career concerns, community standing, peer pressure, or chances for material gain. The exhibition considers individuals who did not give in to the opportunities and temptations to betray their fellow human beings, reminding us that there is an alternative to complicity in evil acts - even in extraordinary times. The exhibition was created and curated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The exhibition will be on view until 24 February 2020.

Thursday, 30 January 2020
Civil Society Briefing "Hate speech, Holocaust denial
and distortion: why challenging it matters"
Venue: Conference Room 2, UNHQ, NY
Time: 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 24 January)
Holocaust denial and distortion dismisses the irrefutable and established facts that the Holocaust happened and belittles the suffering of the victims and survivors of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and their accomplices. Denial and distortion of history is an important tool in the arsenal of hate speech. Hate speech encourages the dehumanization of individuals and groups and is used to justify discrimination and other acts of violence. 2020 marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War, and the Holocaust, yet antisemitism continues to occur. This briefing will provide an historical overview of Holocaust denial and distortion and will explore measures being taken to identify and counter denial and distortion, and to challenge hate speech. The discussion will be moderated by the United Nations Department of Global Communications.


Book Signing
"Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal"
Venue: United Nations Bookshop
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
REGISTER NOW
A conversation with the Renia's younger sister, Holocaust survivor, Elizabeth Bellak and Elizabeth's daughter, Alexandra. The event will be moderated by journalist, Robin Shulman.
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English. Renia's diary became a record of her daily life as the Nazis spread throughout Europe. Renia writes of her mundane school life, her daily drama with best friends, falling in love with her boyfriend Zygmund, as well as the agony of missing her mother, separated by bombs and invading armies. Renia had aspirations to be a writer, and the diary is filled with her poignant and thoughtful poetry. When she was forced into the city's ghetto with the other Jews, Zygmund is able to smuggle her out to hide with his parents, taking Renia out of the ghetto, but not, ultimately to safety. The diary ends in July 1942, completed by Zygmund, after Renia is murdered by the Gestapo.


Film Screening
"The Accountant of Auschwitz"
Venue: German House (871 United Nations Plaza)
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
REGISTER NOW (by 21 January)
The Accountant of Auschwitz follows the trial of Oskar Gröning, who was charged with being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews at Auschwitz. During the Holocaust, Gröning had recorded and tallied the cash and personal valuables seized from Jews arriving at the camp. The trial began in 2015 when Gröning was 93. The Accountant of Auschwitz traces the history leading to Gröning's trial and the race against time to bring to justice last living Nazis. Directed by Matthew Shoychet, and produced by Ricki Gurwitz and Ric Esther Bienstock, the documentary weaves archival footage, contemporary trial coverage, and interviews with survivors and human rights advocates to offer compelling investigations of history, conscience, and justice. The screening will follow by a Q&A session with Ricki Gurwitz, Ric Esther Bienstock and Mr. Thomas Walther. The event is organized with the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations.




Important/Interesting Reads
What Martin Luther King Thought of Israel                                                          
What a misguided (okay, stupid) and insensitive thing for Macron to do without securing a condemnation of Holocaust Denial from Abbas (whose Soviet doctorate was in Holocaust Denial) as a precondition for his visit to Ramallah:
Proposal Would Require Wisconsin Schools to Teach Holocaust History                                                                         A new proposal would require all Wisconsin middle and high schools to teach students about The Holocaust.   
New Israeli Aid Group Assists Fire Victims in Australia                                                                                             SmartAID has quietly been bringing technology to disaster sites in the Bahamas, Mozambique, Puerto Rico, Indonesia and northern Iraq for three years.                              
Equating Jewishness with whiteness overlooks the identities of many and accelerates anti-Semitic tropes based on Jewish power.                     
The UN and Anti-Semitism: Are the Winds of Change Beginning to Blow? Amid a recent worldwide increase in anti-Semitism, there have been some surprising rays of hope recently at the United Nations.                                                                                                                      
                                                 



Israel
Trump Says He'll Roll out Middle East Peace Plan Ahead of Next Tuesday's White House Meeting with Netanyahu and Gantz 
Israel Security Agency Head: We Thwarted 560 Terror Attacks in 2019                                               

When Co-Existence Rears Its Beautiful Head 
Ethiopian-Israeli Female IDF Soldier Promoted to Lt.-Col. Colonel 
Israeli Top Rabbinical Body Reinforces Ruling that Ethiopian Jews are Jewish                                         
Decision comes to counter lingering discrimination, doubts of Jewishness, that have continued four decades after then-chief rabbi ruled Ethiopia's Beta Israel community are Jews 
A Palestinian Sheikh Finds Shelter Hard BY Jewish Settlement   
A Palestinian Sheikh Finds Shelter in Jewish Settlement
A Palestinian Sheikh Finds Shelter in Jewish Settlement
Israel Says Ready to Help Bulgaria with Water Crisis                                                                        



 BDS / Anti-Semitism / anti-Zionism

U.S. Professors Visit Israel for Bridge-Building Mission                                                                     
Jordanian Singer Who Performed in Israel Faces BDS Backlash                                                           
Deborah E. Lipstadt: The First Step to Fighting Anti-Semitism Is Recognizing How Irrational It Is                           This fight might be one that can never result in total victory. The roots of this hatred may be too deeply embedded to ever be fully eradicated.                                                                                        
Italy Adopts IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism                                                                        https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Italy-adopts-IHRA-definition-of-antisemitism-614655
Pope Francis Condemns 'Barbaric Resurgence' of Anti-Semitism                                                           
Germany Plans Year-Long Jewish Culture Celebration Amid 'Explosion of Anti-Semitism'                                       

A New Face of White Supremacy: Plots Expose Danger of the 'Base' 
1 Arrested in New Jersey                                                                         
This article is from the student-run newspaper and is surprisingly objective...for the most part:
Federal Complaint Alleges Columbia University Promotes "Pervasive and Hostile Environment" Toward Jewish Students                     



Iran / Syria / Hezbollah
American Jewish Community "Stands with the Iranian People"      
U.S. Targets Companies Breaking Iran Sanctions                                                                                                   
Israel to Build Anti-Tunnel Sensor Network along Lebanon Border                                                       
UK Expands Hizbullah Asset Freeze to Entire Organization                                                                           

U.S. Seeks to Corner Hizbullah in Latin America    



The Palestinians
The Beginning of an Israel-Hamas Truce?                                                                             
Israeli Aid Organization to Help Civilians at New Gaza Health Center   
                                                     
Poll: Israeli, Palestinian Millennials Believe Conflict Will Never End                                                       

Palestinian Preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque: We Will Soon Establish the Caliphate, Liberate Jerusalem and Conquer Rome     
PA Tells Palestinians: Western Wall in Jerusalem Belongs Only to Muslims                                                
 Egypt Said Involved in "Intensive Efforts" to Rein in Hamas, End Balloon Bomb Attacks                                       


Hi-Tech
While Iron Dome can launch a number of interceptors simultaneously, sending each one to a different target, a single laser could focus on only one target at a time. Consequently, this technology is currently ill-suited for countering salvos of aerial threats.                                                                       
Video: The IronVision Tank Helmet Can See Through Armor       
This IronVision Helmet Can See Through Armor
This IronVision Helmet Can See Through Armor
 Israel Develops Method to Rejuvenate Kidney    



Pop Culture
Bradley Cooper Will Direct, Star in Netflix Film About Leonard Bernstein                                                      
Winter White
An Israeli chef's vegetable soup is the perfect antidote to cold  
                
               


 

Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover by Boaz Aharonovitch
Opening night:
January 23 | 6 PM
ZAZ10TS
Friends of Bezalel present Israeli artist Boaz Aharonovitch's photo-diary, artfully documenting a gardening project that took place in his studio. The outcome of the process is a meditation on the fleeting nature of the garden as a metaphor for the passage of time and longing. Curated by Aya Goshen. Through February 28.

Music
The Daniel Zamir Quartet
January 23 | 7:30 PM
Jazz at the Mansion
Born and raised in Petah Tikva, saxophonist Daniel Zamir is Israel's best-selling jazz artist of all time. Playing on the saprano sax, his blend of modern jazz draws as much from klezmer, liturgical, and Hasidic traditional music, the rhythms of India and West Africa, as it does from jazz.

Film
Skin: Screening and Discussion
January 23 | 6:30 PM
Temple Emanu-el
Skin, Guy Nattiv's Academy Award Winning Short Film, is a bio-drama set in the United States, and a powerful parable about a neo-Nazi skinhead and his son, about the sins of a father and the awakening of a child. It is a lesson in history repeating itself in different guises. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

Music
Benjamin Hochman, piano & Friends
January 24 | 8 PM
Buttenwieser Hall, 92nd Street Y
The "elegant, polished, and heartfelt" (The Boston Globe) pianist Benjamin Hochman begins a two-concert exploration of the influence of words on music with purely instrumental works which take their inspiration from, by turns, a folk ballad, a poem, and a novel.

Art
Materialness
Opening Night:
January 28 | 6 PM
Parasol Projects Gallery
Friends of Bezalel present an exhibit exploring the complex relationship between material, process, and environment, featuring nine projects created by lecturers, graduates, and students of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Curator: Ariel Lavian.

Film
New York Jewish Film Festival
Through January 28
Film at Lincoln Center
The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center present the 29th annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presenting films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. This year's program includes more than ten new Israeli films.

Art
Jan Tichy: Light Shop
Through February 23
Fridman Gallery
An explorative study of light - its collection and dissemination, formation and commodification - taking place in the gradually fading Bowery Lighting District.

Film
The Albanian Code
January 28 | 7 PM
JCC Manhattan
Using unique archival footage, this film unveils the unknown story of thousands of Jewish refugees who were rescued by the Muslim-majority country of Albania during World War II. Ennie Altaratz-Francis, who was saved escaping from Yugoslavia, decides to go to Albania to thank whoever she can. This voyage is full of surprises, as we discover how an entire nation saved refugees, bound by their moral code.

Art
Adi Nes
Through March 1
Fotografiska New York
Adi Nes explores social and political questions revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social justice through his portraits.

Film
Sallah Shabati
January 28 | 7:30 PM
Theater at the 14th Street Y
This 1956 social satire film portrays Sallah Shabati, a Mizrahi Jewish Immigrant arriving with his family in Israel. Upon arrival, he is brought to live with his family in a broken down, one room shack in a transit camp. His comical money-making schemes, aimed to achieve adequate housing, satirize the political and social stereotypes in Israel of the time.


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