Calendar of Events
S Sun
M Mon
T Tue
W Wed
T Thu
F Fri
S Sat
1 event,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Holy Silence
Documentary | 2020 | USA | 74min | English, Italian Directed by Steven Pressman Decades after the horrors of the Holocaust, a controversial debate continues over the role of the Vatican during that dark period of modern history. At the center of the debate is the pivotal question of what, if anything, Pope Pius XII […]
2 events,
Music from the Sole: Meet the Company
Music from the Sole: Meet the Company
Company members briefly discuss their background/influences, and how this shapes the identity and style of the company. Cast members hail from Brazil, the US, Cuba, Honduras, Belgium, and Japan, united by a common love for tap dance, percussive expression, and rhythmic language, and a desire to highlight tap's history and continued relevance as an African-American […]
2 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Asia
Drama | 2020 | Israel | 85min | Hebrew, Russian, English Subtitles Directed by Ruthy Pribar Asia (Alena Yiv) and Vika (Shira Haas) are more like sisters than mother and daughter. Young mom Asia hides nothing about her work-hard, play-hard lifestyle, and expects the same openness and honesty from teenage Vika. But Vika is at […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Golden Voices
Comedy | 2019 | Israel | 88 minutes Russian, Hebrew, English subtitles Directed by Evgeny Ruman Victor and Raya Frenkel were the golden voices of the Soviet film dubbing for decades. All the western movies that reached Soviet screens were dubbed by them. In 1990, with the collapse of Soviet Union, the Frenkels decided to […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Advocate
Documentary | 2019 | Israel, Canada, Switzerland | 110 minutes | Hebrew - Arabic, English subtitles Directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche Lea Tsemel defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from nonviolent demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has represented political prisoners for five decades, Tsemel, in her tireless quest […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Drama | 2020 | Germany, Switzerland | 119min German, English Subtitles Directed by Caroline Link In this gentle, beautifully rendered historical family drama, a German-Jewish girl takes her first steps into adulthood, as world events intrude on her happy, carefree existence. Nine-year-old Anna is too busy with schoolwork and friends to notice Hitler’s face glaring […]
4 events,
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Telling
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Telling
In 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 Telling" by Mark Gerson | March 7 | 4:00 p.m. In Conversation with: Rabbi Brian Glusman, MJCCA Life changing wisdom from one of Judaism’s most powerful texts. The […]
4 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Here We Are
Drama | 2020 | Israel | 92 minutes | Hebrew Directed by Nir Bergman Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. They live together in a gentle routine, away from the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a young adult it might be time for him to live in […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | ‘Til Kingdom Come
Documentary | 2020 | Israel, United Kingdom, Norway | 76 minutes | English, Arabic, Hebrew Directed by Maya Zinshtein Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s […]
4 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Sublet
Drama | 2020 | Israel, United States 89 minutes | English, Hebrew, English Subtitles Directed by Eytan Fox Michael (John Benjamin Hickey), a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv to research his latest article, get some space from his relationship, and recharge his batteries amid the thriving gay scene. Intending to sublet an […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | My Name Is Sara
Drama | 2019 | Poland, USA | 111 min English, Polish, English subtitles Directed by Steven Oritt This powerful saga of courage and compassion is based on the astonishing true-life story of Sara Góralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew who lost her entire family in the Holocaust, yet struggled to outlast the Nazis and fought to […]
Sounds of Persia
Sounds of Persia
Be transported into another sound world as you listen to a traditional improvised solo by the world's leading master of Persian santoor, Dr. Dariush Saghafi. Then hear the world premiere of a piece for SINGING string quartet by Dr. Reza Vali using the Persian Dastgâh-Magham modal system. This program celebrates the release of a collaborative […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | City of Joel
Documentary | 2018 | USA | 84 minutes English | Directed by Jesse Sweet Small-town politics and ancient tradition collide deep in the Hudson Valley, in City of Joel, an absorbing account of a high-profile turf war between an ultra-Orthodox community and its neighbors. Located in rural upstate New York, Kiryas Joel is a modern […]
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance and the Underground
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance and the Underground
Leo & Greg, Artistic Directors of Music from the Sole, discuss tap's lineage to house dance, Brazilian funk (passinho), samba, and street dance with house/vogue/street dance artists. Leonardo Sandoval (choreographer, dancer, artistic director) Brazilian tap dancer Leonardo Sandoval has established a reputation in the tap world and beyond for his musicality, and for adding his […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shared Legacies
Documentary | 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 […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Incitement
Docudrama | 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. […]
2 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Thou Shalt Not Hate
Drama | 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 […]
4 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | VIRAL: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
Documentary | 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 […]
4 events,
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance as Music
Music from the Sole: Tap Dance as Music
Greg, 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 […]
4 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Those Who Remained
Drama | 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 […]
5 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Latter Day Jew
Documentary | 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 […]
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Mossad
Comedy | 2019 | Israel | 95 minutes English and Hebrew with English subtitles Directed by Alon Gur Arye A box office smash in its native Israel Mossad follows the tradition of The Naked Gun series with a riotous laugh-a-minute sendup of the Mossad, Israel’s revered national intelligence agency. Tsahi Halevi (Fauda, Bethlehem) stars as […]
West Hartford Women Are Magnetic!
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 […]
3 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | Shiva Baby
Comedy | 2020 | USA | 77 minutes | English Directed by Emma Seligman When Danielle joins her family at a shiva, the last person she expects to run into is Max, the ‘sugar daddy’ she said goodbye to just a few hours earlier. With this unexpected clash of her worlds, Danielle is forced into […]
Music from the Sole: Percussive Dancers in Conversation
Music from the Sole: Percussive Dancers in Conversation
Leo, Artistic Director of Music from the Sole, in conversation with flamenco, step, hoop, Irish, kathak, and tap dancers. Leonardo Sandoval Artistic Director, Choreographer, Dancer, Composer Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval has become renowned in the dance world for blending America’s great tap tradition with Brazil’s rich rhythmic and musical heritage. He helped […]
2 events,
25th Annual Hartford Jewish Virtual Film Festival | The Crossing
Drama | 2020 | Norway | 90 minutes Norwegian, English Subtitles Directed by Johanne Helgeland The Crossing tells the story of the adventurous 10-year-old Gerda and her brother Otto, whose parents are in the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War. One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda and Otto’s parents are arrested, […]
3 events,
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Beauty of Living Twice
Mandell JCC Book Festival In Your Living Room | The Beauty of Living Twice
In 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 Beauty of Living Twice" by Sharon Stone | April 1 | 8:00 p.m. In conversation with International Superstar Gloria Estefan Sharon Stone tells her own story: a journey […]
2 events,
Drive-through Easter Egg Hunt
Drive-through Easter Egg Hunt
Free drive-through Easter Egg Hunt in the parking lot of First Baptist Church of West Hartford. Each child will receive a goodie bag with candy, stickers, and a craft to complete.