Cinema Emanu-El: Ben-Gurion Epilogue

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"Ben-Gurion Epilogue" is a documentary featuring a 1968 interview with Israel’s first prime minister, at age 82, from his desert home in Sde Boker. His crucial role in the development of the young country and his military and political legacy have resonance today as Israel grapples with the October 7 attacks and their aftermath. Stay...

Cinema Emanu-El: 999: The Forgotten Girls of the Holocaust

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In 1942, 999 Jewish Slovak girls were lured into government service with the promise they’d be helping their families by working in a shoe factory. They became the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz. Survivors of that transport share their stories in this gripping documentary.

Cinema Emanu-El: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann

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You’ll be swept up in this tense historical drama set in the German occupation of France, based on a play by Jean-Philippe Daguerre. Jewish jeweler Joseph Haffman leaves his shop in the care of his assistant Mercier as he tries to flee to Switzerland. He ends up hiding in his own basement when his exit...

Cinema Emanu-El: June Zero

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View the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from the perspectives of his Jewish Moroccan prison guard, an Israeli police investigator who’s also a Holocaust survivor and a 13-year-old Libyan immigrant. Hebrew, with subtitles.