Events

Matchmaking  Saturday, March 30 | 8:30 PM  Comedy | Directed by Erez Tadmor  2022 | Israel Hebrew with English subtitles | 98 Min. | Kaplan Theatre  Moti Bernstein (Amit Rahav from Netflix’s Unorthodox) is the son every mother wants, the ideal Yeshiva student, and the perfect match for every young Ashkenazi bride. But he falls […]

Shorts from Israel: A Tribute to Yahav Winner   This program is a tribute to filmmaker of The Boy, Yahav Winner, a victim of the attacks on October 7. The film, The Boy will be introduced by our Shlichim, Shoshi and Harel Bassan, and followed by a brief live music performance.   Sunday, March 31 | […]

Generation 1.5  Sunday, March 31 | 4:00 PM  Documentary | Directed by Roman Shumunov   2023 | Israel | Hebrew and Russian with English subtitles | 80 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Over one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union arrived in Israel during the 1990’s. Generation 1.5 – those who made aliyah as children […]

Hummus Full Trailer  Sunday, March 31 | 7:00 PM  Comedy | Directed by Asaf Kobrovsky   2022 Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 93 Min. | Kaplan Theatre  Three shipping containers of illegal goods get mixed up in the port city of Haifa. Russian smugglers, ultra-Orthodox gun dealers and Arab traffickers scramble to undo […]

No Name Restaurant  Monday, April 1 | 7:30 PM  Directed by Stefan Sarazin  Comedy | Directed by Stefan Sarazin and Peter Keller   2023 | Germany | English, Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles | 121 Min. | Kaplan Theatre Actor Luzer Twersky in attendance Alexandria, Egypt. To save the once largest Jewish community in […]

Rabbi on the Block   Tuesday, April 2 | 7:30 PM  Documentary | Directed by Brad Rothschild 2023 | USA | English | 88 Min. | Kaplan Theatre  Director Brad Rothschild and Rabbi Tamar Manasseh in attendance In this engaging documentary, Tamar Menasseh, an African-American rabbi, mother and anti-gun violence advocate, brings her unusual background to […]

Love Gets a Room*  Wednesday, April 3 | 7:30 PM  Drama | Directed by Rodrigo Cortés   2022 | Spain/UK English | 103 Min. | Holocaust Museum Houston Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Surrounded by starvation, cold and threatening Nazis, one dilapidated theater is alive with Jewish actors and musicians putting on a musical comedy for a […]

CLOSING NIGHT  The Monkey House  Thursday, April 4 | 7:30 PM  Drama/Comedy | Directed by Avi Nesher 2023 | Israel | Hebrew with English subtitles | 128 Min. | Kaplan Theatre   Nominated for 11 Ophirs (Israeli Academy Awards), acclaimed director Avi Nesher’s intricate literary mystery follows a plot by forgotten novelist Amitay to resuscitate his […]