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SUMMARY:Stay Forte - Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the**State Theatre** for the **Ann Arbor Jewish Film\nFestival**! The festival is celebrating its 25th year and this year’s showings\nare sure to amaze and move you. The primary festival runs from**May 3 to May\n13** \, but stay tuned throughout the year for special events! \n**Doors Open at 6:00 pm  **\n**Film Starts at 6:30 pm  ** \n**Synopsis:** The film explores the harrowing journey of Alon Shamiriz\, Yotam\nChai\, and Samer Tallaka\, three innocent Israeli hostages who were plucked from\ntheir homes and held captive in the terror tunnels of Gaza. They were\ntragically killed after escaping captivity while attempting to find their way\nhome to Israel. Their story resonates as a profound reminder of resilience\,\nhumanity\, and the indomitable will to survive amid turmoil. \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14831
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/film-festival-4/
LOCATION:The State Theatre 233 S State St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Arrival / Check In,Closed Captions,College Students,Food Available ($),Hebrew Speaking,Israel in Crisis,Non Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Older Adults,Wheelchair Accessible,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:Girls Like Us - Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the**State Theater** for the **Ann Arbor Jewish Film\nFestival**! The festival is celebrating its 25th year and this year’s showings\nare sure to amaze and move you. The primary festival runs from**May 3 to May\n13** \, but stay tuned throughout the year for special events! \n**Doors Open at 6:00 pm  **\n**Film Starts at 6:30 pm  ** \n**Synopsis:** Shahar lives in a tough neighborhood with her dysfunctional\nfamily. Her divorced father is in a mental institution\, and her alcoholic\nmother dreams of remarriage. Shahar essentially raises her younger sister\nalone. Expelled from regular school\, she now studies at an alternative school\nfor at-risk girls. When a new counselor arrives as an unconventional and\nenigmatic guide\, their intense relationship\, marked by attraction and\nrepulsion\, pushes them both to the edge. \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14830
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/girls-like-us-ann-arbor-jewish-film-festival/
LOCATION:The State Theatre 233 S State St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Advocacy,Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Arrival / Check In,Closed Captions,College Students,Food Available ($),Hebrew Speaking,Mental Health,Non Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Older Adults,Parenting,Wheelchair Accessible,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:The Sea - Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the**State Theater** for the **Ann Arbor Jewish Film\nFestival**! The festival is celebrating its 25th year and this year’s showings\nare sure to amaze and move you. The primary festival runs from**May 3 to May\n13** \, but stay tuned throughout the year for special events! \n**Doors Open at 6:00 pm  **\n**Film Starts at 6:30 pm  ** \n**Synopsis:** Khaled\, a 12-year-old boy from a Palestinian village\, is\nthrilled to join a school trip to see the sea for the first time. However\, at\nan Israeli military checkpoint\, soldiers declare his travel permit invalid and\nsend him back\, while his classmates continue on. Determined and heartbroken\,\nKhaled sets out alone to reach the sea\, despite not knowing the way or\nspeaking Hebrew. His father\, Ribhi\, an undocumented laborer working in Israel\,\nabandons his job and risks arrest to search for his missing son. \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/14828
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/the-sea-ann-arbor-jewish-film-festival/
LOCATION:The State Theatre 233 S State St\, Ann Arbor
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SUMMARY:The Pianist's Choice - OPENING NIGHT - Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the**State Theater** for the **Ann Arbor Jewish Film\nFestival**! The festival is celebrating its 25th year and this year’s showings\nare sure to amaze and move you. The primary festival runs from**May 3 to May\n13** \, but stay tuned throughout the year for special events! \n**Doors Open at 6:00 pm  **\n**Film Starts at 6:30 pm  ** \n**Synopsis:** The Pianist’s Choice follows the story of François Touraine\, a\nFrench piano virtuoso who is living at the dawn of World War II. He has fallen\nin love with his piano teacher\, Rachel\, a French Jewish woman and as the\nforces of Nazi Germany bear down on their lives\, their relationship becomes\nmore complex. François is forced to go play piano for Germany in an attempt to\nsave the woman he loves\, aligning with those he despises to try and save a\nlife. \nOrganized by: JCC of Greater Ann Arbor \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/15121
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/the-pianists-choice-opening-night-ann-arbor-jewish-film-festival/
LOCATION:The State Theatre 233 S State St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:Adults,Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Arrival / Check In,Closed Captions,College Students,Food Available ($),French Speaking,Holocaust,Non Alc. Drinks For Purchase,Older Adults,Wheelchair Accessible,Young Adults
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SUMMARY:36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 36th Annual David W. Belin Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Ayala Fader on\nThursday\, March 26\, 2026. Food will be served at the pre-lecture reception\,\nand Fader will sign books after the lecture. This free\, public lecture will\ntake place in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union on Thursday\, March 26\,\n2026. Please RSVP at (https://myumi.ch/15PN8) to let\nus know if you plan to attend. \nOver the past decade\, frum (Orthodox) Jewish women wellness influencers on\nsocial media have become a significant presence. Despite attempts by some\nrabbis to silence them\, frum influencers in the United States and Israel\ncontinue to share intimate details of their everyday lives online\, earning a\nliving through the promotion of products linked to their platforms. Professor\nFader’s talk examines the seemingly contradictory worlds these influencers\nnavigate: while claiming new forms of gendered authority\, they simultaneously\nreinforce traditional Jewish family structures and gender roles.\nDrawing inspiration from conservative Christian wellness influencers\, frum\ninfluencers create content that asserts Jewish exceptionalism while fostering\nunexpected exchanges with conservative Christian women. The lecture will\nconsider whether frum social media influencers are subtly promoting illiberal\npolitics through the gendered language of wellness. \n**Ayala Fader  **is professor of anthropology at Fordham University. She is\nthe author of the award-winning books\, _Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next\nGeneration of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn_  (Princeton University Press\, 2009)\nand _Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age_  (Princeton University\nPress\, 2020). Her research has been supported by the National Science\nFoundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fader’s current book\nproject examines the trend of American Orthodox Jews aligning themselves with\na new form of religion on the Christian Right—a public\, political\, racialized\,\nand biblical philosophy\, redefining postwar Judeo-Christianity in the\ncontemporary political landscape. As the founding director of Fordham’s Center\nfor Public Anthropology\, Fader is currently collaborating on the Demystifying\nLanguage Project\, which makes linguistic anthropology a social justice\nresource for public high schools. Fader received her Ph.D. from New York\nUniversity \n** _About the Belin Lecture_**\nSince 1991\, the Frankel Center has hosted an accomplished speaker to present\nthe David W. Belin lecture in American Jewish Affairs. Following the annual\nlecture\, each speaker provides a text version of their talk. This essay is\nthen published in print format and is made available\n(https://www.fulcrum.org/belin?locale=en)**.**  To request a\nspecific year’s lecture book\, please email JudaicStudies@umich.edu. \nOrganized by: U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/13395
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/36th-annual-david-w-belin-lecture/
LOCATION:Michigan Union 530 S State St\, Ann Arbor
CATEGORIES:All Ages,Closed Captions,Coffee,Educational,English Speaking,Finger Food,Food,History,Items for sale,Jewish Learning,Presentation,Special Guest,Vegetarian Friendly,Wheelchair Accessible
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