25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shared Legacies
3666Documentary | 2020 | USA | 97 minutes | English Directed by Dr. Shari Rogers The crucial historical lessons of Black-Jewish cooperation are revisited and revived in this utterly fascinating, urgent call to action. The modern alliance between African Americans and Jewish Americans dates to the NAACP founding in 1909. Since then, both groups have […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Incitement
3666Docudrama | 2019 | Israel | 123 minutes Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Yaron Zilberman For the first time on screen and based on true events, acclaimed writer-director Yaron Zilberman chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to a delusional ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Thou Shalt Not Hate
3666Drama | 2020 | Italy | 96 minutes Italian, English Subtitles Directed by Mauro Mancini Simone Segre is a successful surgeon who leads a carefree existence, marred only by a difficult relationship with his recently deceased father, a Holocaust survivor. One day he finds himself assisting a victim of a hit and run accident. When […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | VIRAL: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
3666Documentary | 2020 | USA | 83 minutes Directed by Andrew Goldberg The film looks at the rise of antisemitism today, through the eyes of some of those most affected by it in the US, France, the UK and Hungary. Examining the far-Right in the US and how they have incited such acts as the […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | Eternal: A Novel
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://www.showclix.com/event/lisa-scottoline-eternal-a-novel/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "Eternal: A Novel" by Lisa Scottoline | March 21 | 8:00 p.m Eternal is the culmination of a lifetime of work: a sweeping historical epic fueled by devastating true […]
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance as Music
3546 1678 Asylum Ave, West HartfordGreg, Artistic Director of Music from the Sole, discusses the creative process of "composing" tap dance, blending the choreographic and musical composition processes. Also includes discussion of the specificities of writing music for and with tap dancers, compared to other work. Gregory Richardson (musical director, artistic director) Born to a family of musicians where everyone […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Call to Unite
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://embed.showclix.com/event/tim-shriver-call-to-unite/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "The Call To Unite" by Tim Shriver | March 22 | 7:00 p.m. In Conversation with Dr. Deepak Chopra, NYT Bestselling Author; Founder, The Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Those Who Remained
3666Drama | 2019 | Hungary | 83 minutes Hungarian (with English subtitles) Directed by Barnabás Tóth Hungary’s official entry for the Academy Award for Best International Film is an achingly tender tale set in Budapest after the end of World War II. Having survived the camps, 42-year-old Aldo lives a solitary life as a doctor […]
Careers in Criminal Justice
To meet the workforce needs created by the changing face of criminal justice, the University of Saint Joseph recently updated the school’s acclaimed Criminal Justice Bachelor of Science program with built-in flexibility to ensure graduates are workforce-ready in a broad array of careers within the profession.To help young people interested in pursuing a career in […]
West Hartford Women Are Magnetic!
West Hartford Women In Networking invite interested women to their March virtual meeting. Magnetic Mindset/Unstoppable Success: When was the last time you believed in yourself? Believed that anything is possible? Many of us lose that skill as adults. We become planners and problem-solvers looking to use logic to create backup plans for every situation. A […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Latter Day Jew
3666Documentary | 2019 | Israel – United States | 85 minutes | English Directed by Aliza Rosen How does a gay, former-Mormon, cancer-survivor who converted to Judaism at the age of 34 prepare for his bar mitzvah? Determined to be “the best Jew he can be” before becoming a man in the eyes of Jewish […]
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Book of Longings
Virtual Event | To purchase tickets, visit: https://embed.showclix.com/event/sue-monk-kidd/tag/mandellIn partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium, the Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room is a virtual series of author Zoom talks and Q&As. "The Book of Longings" by Sue Monk Kidd | March 25 | 8:00 p.m. In Conversation with Greg Changnon, Former Book Club Columnist, Atlanta Journal Constitution, and Playwright Book […]