The Little Traitor
2008 • Israel/USA • 89 minutes Thursday, March 19, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCOpening Night, Feature - New Jersey Premiere
An unlikely friendship between a 12-year old Israeli boy and a British soldier is the basis for this tale, set in Palestine in 1947, just before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz is caught after curfew by the gentle-hearted Sergeant Dunlop. Rather than punish him, Dunlop escorts him home. The British soldier slowly becomes a father figure to Proffy,...
Arab Labor
2007 • Israel • 90 minutes Friday, March 20, 2009 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCSitcom, episodes 1, 2, 3 - New Jersey Premiere
Take a look at life through the eyes of an Israeli-Arab family in the wildly funny prime-time sitcom Arab Labor. The show, created by Dani Faran and Arab Israeli Sayed Kashua, is the first ever to feature an Arab Israeli family. Amjad is a 35-year old journalist for a Hebrew-language newspaper. The intersection of his life, love, and career as an Arab...
For My Father
2008 • Israel • 98 minutes Saturday, March 21, 2009 • 09:00 PM • Clearview Headquarters 10Feature - New Jersey Premiere
Tarek is a young Arab and former soccer star who through unfortunate circumstances has agreed to be a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, in order to clear his father’s reputation. When the bomb malfunctions, Tarek is given a second chance at life. While he waits for two days to repair his explosive vest, he encounters several people from a small Tel Aviv...
Sharon
2008 • Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, March 22, 2009 • 01:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
This documentary explores the reasons why former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a one-time supporter of the West Bank settlements, decided to initiate Israel’s unilateral pullout and evacuation of over 8,000 settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Post Screening Discussion with David Twersky
Monster Among Us
2008 • USA • 87 minutes Sunday, March 22, 2009 • 03:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
Sixty years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism has resurfaced in Europe. Fueled by the powerful ideology of Muslim extremists, this new anti-Semitism is cropping up in countries traditionally imbued with Western values. When Jews feel threatened, they must face the choice of whether to stay and fight, or flee to safety abroad. This unsettling documentary brings...
One Day You'll Understand
2008 • France • 90 minutes Sunday, March 22, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Clearview Cinema 12Feature
It is Paris in 1987. As the trial of Klaus Barbie, the Head of Gestapo in Lyon, plays out on television, French businessman Victor Bastien finds himself increasingly obsessed with piecing together the truth about his family’s history. As he finally begins to reconcile himself with his family’s fate, his mother makes a decision that may have long range...
The Secrets
2007 • Israel • 120 minutes Sunday, March 22, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Naomi, the brilliant and pious daughter of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, finds herself at a crossroads when her mother dies and she is expected to immediately marry her father’s prodigy. Distressed yet determined, she begs that her father allow her one year to study at a women’s religious seminary in Safed, birthplace of Kaballah, to prepare herself for...
A Trip To Prague
2007 • USA • 4 minutes Sunday, March 22, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCShort
Using simple narration and the filmmaker’s own sketches of the city of Prague, A Trip to Prague features a funny anecdote about the Jewish instinct to make a shiddach (fix-up).
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Arab Labor
2007 • Israel • 120 minutes Monday, March 23, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCSitcom, episodes 4,5,6,7 - New Jersey Premiere
Take a look at life through the eyes of an Israeli-Arab family in the wildly funny prime-time sitcom Arab Labor. The show, created by Dani Faran and Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua, is the first Israeli prime time show to feature an Arab-Israeli family. Amjad is a 35-year old journalist for a Hebrew language newspaper. The intersection of his career, love life, and...
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The Little Traitor
2008 • Israel/USA • 89 minutes Monday, March 23, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
An unlikely friendship between a 12-year old Israeli boy and a British soldier is the basis for this tale, set in Palestine in 1947, just before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz is caught after curfew by the gentle-hearted Sergeant Dunlop. Rather than punish him, Dunlop escorts him home. The British soldier slowly becomes a father figure to Proffy,...
Strangers
2008 • Israel • 81 minutes Tuesday, March 24, 2009 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Strangers offers the unlikely yet touching love story of two people, an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman, who meet by chance in Berlin at the World Cup finals. The story is set against the backdrop of the Second Lebanon war in 2006, and follows their love affair as they struggle to balance their attraction to each other against their devotion and sense of...
Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell
2007 • Israel • 44 minutes Tuesday, March 24, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
A Catholic who converted to Judaism, Yisrael Campbell draws on his life experiences—alcoholism, his conversion to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish rituals, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and fatherhood to create his comedy routines. Campbell’s irreverent comedy is his way of using humor to deal with the pain of everyday life in Israel.
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A Trip To Prague
2007 • USA • 4 minutes Tuesday, March 24, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCShort
Using simple narration and the filmmaker’s own sketches of the city of Prague, A Trip to Prague features a funny anecdote about the Jewish instinct to make a shiddach (fix-up).
The Beetle
2008 • Israel • 70 minutes Tuesday, March 24, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
Director Yishai Orian and his wife are expecting a baby. Yishai’s wife wants him to scrap his 40-year old Volkswagen Beetle, which clearly has seen better days, for a safer family car. Orian is reluctant to part with the Beetle and embarks on a journey to trace the car’s history, visit its past owners, and come to terms with its powerful hold on...
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The Secrets
2007 • Israel • 120 minutes Wednesday, March 25, 2009 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Naomi, the brilliant and pious daughter of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, finds herself at a crossroads when her mother dies and she is expected to immediately marry her father’s prodigy. Distressed yet determined, she begs that her father allow her one year to study at a women’s religious seminary in Safed, birthplace of Kaballah, to prepare herself for the...
At Home In Utopia
2008 • USA • 57 minutes Wednesday, March 25, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
A home of one’s own—that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists? In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves out of urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and run...
Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg
2008 • USA • 18 minutes Wednesday, March 25, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCShort - New Jersey Premiere
Aviva Kempner’s work-in-progress documentary looks at the career of Jewish American actress Gertrude Berg. Berg starred in the long-running television and radio series The Goldbergs.
Blessed Is The Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
2008 • USA • 86 minutes Wednesday, March 25, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper, resistance fighter, and modern-day Joan of Arc. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Senesh joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only...
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Max Minsky and Me
2007 • Germany • 94 minutes Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 09:45 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Nelly Sue Edelmeister is a 13-year old schoolgirl who dreams of being an astronomer. She has a desperate crush on Prince Edouard of Luxembourg, and when the girls’ high school basketball team has a chance to compete inLuxembourg, Nelly has to find a way to get on the team so she can go and meet her prince. When she brokers a deal with her next-door neighbor...
We Were Exodus
2007 • France • 80 minutes Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 12:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
In July 1947, a boat known as the “Exodus 47” secretly set sail for Palestine. On board were 4,551 passengers, all survivors of the Shoah. Intercepted by the British Navy, the passengers were transferred to three English boats, which after nine days of a difficult journey, returned to Provence at Port-de-Bouc. The film features never-before-seen...
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Strangers
2008 • Israel • 81 minutes Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Strangers offers the unlikely yet touching love story of two people, an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman, who meet by chance in Berlin at the World Cup finals. The story is set against the backdrop of the Second Lebanon war in 2006, and follows their love affair as they struggle to balance their attraction to each other against their devotion and sense of...
The Debt
2007 • Israel • 93 minutes Thursday, March 26, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Clearview Caldwell TheaterFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Forty years after the supposed capture of the fictional Nazi war criminal known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau,” two ex-Mossad agents are alerted that he may still be alive. Desperate to keep their secret—that the Surgeon actually escaped imprisonment while under their watch—they head to the Ukraine to find him and finish the job. The...
Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008 • Australia • 103 minutes Saturday, March 28, 2009 • 09:00 PM • Clearview Cinema 12Feature - New Jersey Premiere
Esther Blueburger is tired of being the outcast in her elite private school. So she enlists the help of Sunni, a “cool girl” from the local public school. Esther begins living a double life, pretending to be a Swedish exchange student at the public school, all the while trying to hide her secret from her family. In the end, it’s up to...
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Arab Labor
2007 • Israel • 90 minutes Sunday, March 29, 2009 • 11:00 AM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCSitcom, episodes 8, 9, 10 - New Jersey Premiere
Take a look at life through the eyes of an Israeli-Arab family in the wildly funny prime-time sitcom Arab Labor. The show, created by Dani Faran andArab-Israeli Sayed Kashua, is the first Israeli prime time show to featurean Arab-Israeli family. Amjad is a 35-year old journalist for a Hebrewlanguage newspaper. The intersection of his career, love life,...
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At Home In Utopia
2008 • USA • 57 minutes Sunday, March 29, 2009 • 01:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - New Jersey Premiere
A home of one’s own—that’s the American dream. But what happens when the dreamers are immigrants, factory workers, and Communists? In the mid-1920s, thousands of Jewish immigrant garment workers managed to catapult themselves out of urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building four cooperatively owned and run...
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For My Father
2008 • Israel • 98 minutes Sunday, March 29, 2009 • 03:00 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCFeature - New Jersey Premiere
Tarek is a young Arab and former soccer star who through unfortunate circumstances has agreed to be a suicide bomber in Tel Aviv, in order to clear his father’s reputation. When the bomb malfunctions, Tarek is given asecond chance at life. While he waits for two days to repair his explosive vest, he encounters several people from a small Tel Aviv...
Four Seasons Lodge
2008 • USA • 101 minutes Sunday, March 29, 2009 • 07:30 PM • Leon & Toby Cooperman JCCDocumentary - Closing Night
New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs teams up with legendary cinematographer Albert Meysles to document the waning days of a Catskills bungalow colony that for the past 30 years has served as a summer getaway for a group of Holocaust survivors. As the friends get older, it becomes more difficult for them to maintain their community. The film documents their final...