Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Mincha ..................................................... 8:00 pm Fast Begins …......………....…...........…... 8:07 pm Mariv and Chanting of Eicha ................... 8:30 pm
Thursday, July 30, 2020 Morning Shacharit ................................... 8:30 am “The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel” film / discussion (click here to join us) .... 3:30pm Tisha B’Av Mincha/Mariv ........................ 6:30 pm Fast Ends .............................................. 8:44 pm
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TISHA B'AV SHORT FILM SERIES 2020 | 5780
The following 6 videos are recommended for Tisha B’Av viewing
They are free and open source to the community
In addition to these videos, the film presentation of“The Hope: The Rebirth of Israel” will begin at 3:30pm on Menorah's Zoom followed by a community discussion
The story of how an old synagogue in the Bosnian war zone became a beacon of hope for everyone. During the Bosnian war (1992-1995), the Jewish community of Sarajevo refused to take sides, opened their own humanitarian aid agency inside the city's synagogue, and were soon joined by their Muslim, Croat and Serbian friends. While outside of the besieged Bosnian capital, nationalist politicians swore these ethnic groups could not get along, here is a group of people who never got the memo. In this European war, Jews were not the victims. In this war, Jews were saving Muslims and Christians. An inspiring story of friendship and commitment.
Awakened in the dead of night by a frantic young woman on the run, Naomi grapples with a situation that defies belief and must decide how far she will go to protect the visitor.
For forty years, both from an international platform as well as from his local pulpit in the Bronx, Rabbi Avi Weiss has been an important voice speaking up against injustice for both Jews and non-Jews. In this documentary, filmmaker Phil Schneider provides a compelling, insightful, and comprehensive look into Weiss' extraordinary life, and how, as a result of his crusading activism and "speaking truth to power," he has inspired others to "show up, stand up, and speak up" in times of crisis. The film also explores the softer side of Rabbi Weiss and his relentless commitment to create an environment of inclusion and dignity for his community.
Starring Maureen Lipman and David Horovitch, and written and directed by Dan Susman, Veils is a story about a Jewish girl and a Palestinian guy on their wedding day. But this is not a standard Romeo & Juliet story of forbidden love - there is much more than meets the eye...
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin on April 30, 1945. But legends about the Nazi dictator lived on. Was his body ever found? Did he manage to escape? After Hitler, aides poured gasoline on his body and set it alight in the garden of his chancellery. A few days later, the Soviets discovered the remains. But the body was burned beyond recognition, and they could not be sure it was his. Only after a top-secret investigation could Hitler be positively identified, thanks to information provided by his dentist.
The Warsaw Ghetto housed 440,000 Polish Jews and Roma during World War II. Typhus, starvation and random murders killed over 100,000 of the ghetto's residents even before the Nazis began the massive deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp. Yet the Nazis created a mysterious propaganda film that juxtaposed meticulously staged scenes of Jews enjoying a life of luxury in the ghetto with other, chilling images that required no staging at all. After the war, filmmakers and museums - unaware of the deception - used images from the film as objective illustrations of life in the ghetto, which subsequently became engraved as historical truth. With contributions from ghetto survivors and one of the German cameramen, Warsaw Ghetto: The Unfinished Film reveals how the Nazis used the ghetto as a film set, the inhabitants as actors and the decaying bodies as exhibits, and examines how far we can trust historic images.
