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Publishing date: May 01, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 4 minute read • John Benjamin Hickey and Niv Nissim in Sublet, which plays the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival May 4. Daniel Miller photo. Photo by Daniel Miller /supplied
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Making note of its 25
th anniversary this year, Edmonton Jewish Film Festival coordinator Susan Schiffman says, “it really is overshadowed.”
“It’s so important. But it’s so hard to celebrate.”
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Shared Legacies at JFilm Festival After being canceled last spring due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, the JFilm Festival returns to immerse audiences in the Jewish experience with virtual screenings, panel discussions, and more. This year, the festival also has a clear mission of highlighting how communities can acknowledge and work together against social injustice and corruption. Kathryn Spitz Cohan, executive director of Film Pittsburgh, the nonprofit that organizes JFilm and other major film events in the city, believes addressing these issues is central to their mission. I would say we re really trying, through the films that we curate, to move people from point A to point B, meaning bringing people together to understand that we re more alike than different regardless of our skin color, our religion, our p
By TAPINTO MONTCLAIR STAFF
February 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Online Book Talk – Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies , presented by Succeed2gether s Montclair Literary Festival
Online Book Talk – Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies , presented by .
Credits: S2g s Montclair Literary Festival
By TAPINTO MONTCLAIR STAFF
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Succeed2gether will be hosting the Montclair Literary Festival s first event for 2021.
The event will be a conversation with
Deesha Philyaw about her debut short story collection,
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Her book was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and for the Story Prize, and just this month was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
“It’s not about comparing scars,” says Rabbi Capers Funnye, his thought completed moments later by Dr. Michael Berenbaum’s, “It doesn’t mean the Holocaust doesn’t have something to say about slavery and slavery doesn’t have something to say about the Holocaust. Both of them have something to say about suffering.” You couldn’t prove it by my Hebrew school teacher, Rabbi Sol Lerner, who, in 1966, escorted his class to Chicago’s Roosevelt Theatre a downtown picture palace that took up an entire city block to attend a performance of the 10-year anniversary reissue of DeMille’s