Events

Open Gym & Tot Shabbat

Houston Gymnastics Center 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM in the atrium of the Samuels Family Community Pavilion. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited. Cost: $5 […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Matchmaking

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 […]

The Great Chametz Search

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Grab your feathers, candles and spoons—it is time for a chametz search! It is customary to prepare for Passover by hiding chametz (bread products) around your house and then searching for them using a feather, candle and spoon. Kids will have the opportunity to find the hidden “chametz” around a park and turn it in […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Shorts from Israel: A Tribute to Yahav Winner

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 | […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Generation 1.5

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Hummus Full Trailer

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: No Name Restaurant

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

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 […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Rabbi on the Block

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Rabbi on the Block   Teen Night: Wednesday, April 3 | 7:00 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 […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Love Gets a Room

Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States

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 […]