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The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2016 - Page 18 Charlotte Jewish Film Festival Spotlight Opening Night Celebration - Saturday, February 20- 7:15 PM at Temple Israel ($25.00) Jonathan Pryce stars as an old ing redemption in unexpeeted plaees. Speeial guest(s) are seheduled to appear and there will be a dessert reeeption after the film. Jewish baker whose faltering business is inadvertently saved by his young Muslim apprentiee in the British dramedy Dough. Widowed and down on his luek, Nat Dayan (Pryee) is desper ate to save his London bake shop. His eustomers are dying off, his sons have no interest in keeping afloat the family business, and a real estate developer has his own greedy plans for the property. After his assistant leaves him, Nat reluetantly hires teenager Ayyash (Jerome Holder), a refugee from Darfur. Ayyash helps with the bakery’s daily ehores while also selling eannabis on the side to help his struggling mother make ends meet. When he one day aeeidently drops his stash into the dough, the ehallah suddenly starts flying off the shelves. An unlikely friendship forms between Nat and Ayyash as business booms. Dough is a warmhearted and gently humorous story about find Sunday, February 21 - 7:15 PM at Temple Israel ($10.00) Rock in the Red Zone presents an intimate and eompelling tale of musie and perseveranee on the of inspiration as the people of Sderot found a way to eope with the trauma of being pummeled for 14 years by homemade missiles known as Qassams. In underground bomb shelters, feelings of frustration, fear and hope have turned into magie - a unique Sderot sound that injeets Middle Eastern influenees into traditional Westerns beats, ereat- ing unique rhythms and a new genre that has transformed Israeli musie. In Rock in the Red Zone, film maker Laura Bialis shows how re- silienee and the power of artistie ereation ean transeend even the most ehallenging eireumstanees. Speeial live musieal perform- anee by the film’s star Avi Vaknin is seheduled for after the film. YllJ Al ThE ^^[]VI|■S. FEBRUARY 20-MAf ROCK IN THE RED ZONE SUNDAY B21 TEMPLE ISRAEL P frontlines of a never-ending war. On the edge of Israel’s Negev Desert, half a mile from Gaza (and direetly in the path of thousands of Hamas roekets) is Sderot, a eity made up of refugees from wide ranging loeales sueh as Spain, North Afriea, and the Middle East. This melting pot of diverse eul- tures beeame the unlikely setting Wednesday, February 24 - 7:15 PM at Temple Israel ($10.00) Surviving Skokie eenters on a series of dark days in small-town Ameriea that foree a resilient group of Holoeaust survivors to relive a devastating past. Eli Adler’s deeply personal film fol lows the journey of his father. Jaek, a Polish immigrant and eon- eenfration eamp survivor who re built his life in Skokie, Illinois. But the quiet existenee of hun dreds of survivors is roeked to its eore in the late ‘70s when a neo- Nazi group announees plans to mareh through town. As the eom- munity eomes together to eonfront these hate mongers, long-festering emotional sears and severe mem ories are uneovered. Surviving Skokie eombines fas- einating historieal footage and a penetrating first-person perspee- tive to eapture the intimate psy- ehologieal details of 70 years of perseeution and prejudiee. The generational journey eomes full eirele after a poignant trip baek to Poland provides a profound op portunity for a son to fully under stand his father’s turbulent history. Jaek and Eli Adler are sehed uled to appear for a taUcbaek after the film. Sunday, February 28 - 11:00 AM at Regal Ballantyne ($15.00) Ina Pinkney is a Chieago leg end of the tastiest kind. Known around town as the “Breakfast Queen,” she has been feeding Chieagoans for the past 33 years - first, out of a small bakery and then from her beloved breakfast nook in the West Loop. Ina, who survived polio as an infant, now suffers the effeets of post-polio syndrome and deeided to elose the doors of her eelebrated establish ment at the end of 2013. (Continued on page 20) SURVITOJGlii! : i! SKOKIE \ r J m WEDNESDAY Iv;; FEB 24 I TEMPLE ISMEL1 i 4 ^ Learning i. al (growing, piciying and connecting count too!) at Cjp too!) i _ / th ^ ^ y V ENROLLING FOR fall AtCJP, weare dedicated to instilling within each child an excitement towards learning, and a joyful feeling toward ^^§10 ^ ^ Charlotte Jewish Preschool " ‘ . Age 1- PreK • Full & Half Day • Shalom Park location 704-944-6776 • www.cjpkids.org OF GREATER CHARLOTTE CJP is a partnership of Temple Beth El, Temple Israel and the Levine JCC
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