Stroum Jewish Community Center of Greater Seattle
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Building community (kehillah) is not necessarily about blood relations; rather, it is often rooted in shared places and experiences. Six exceptional short films showcase how bonds with total strangers can resolve age-old Jewish questions. We need one another for safety and sanity!
Winner of five Israeli Academy Awards (Ophirs) and the country’s 2026 Oscar submission, THE SEA is a tender, wryly comic and profound story about a Palestinian boy wandering through Tel Aviv on a quest to see the beach for the first time.
Three meals a day, but each bite might be your last: Rosa is recruited to be a food taster in Hitler’s secret bunker in this gripping and surreal historical drama based on a true story.
The sardonic wit and deadpan comedic perfection of actor Charles Grodin wasn’t his only gift. He spent much of his life dedicated to fighting for social justice causes.
A chance encounter with a man at the airport sends Aya on an odyssey to reignite her spark. Based on an Oscar-nominated short.
Popular Israeli comedian Adir Miller wrote, codirected and stars in this comic melodrama about a family’s trip to Hungary to discover the whereabouts of their matriarch’s fabled ring.
Working against many hurdles and societal expectations, ultra-Orthodox mother of five Beatie Deutsch dreams of running across the finish line as an Olympic marathoner.
Hadassah founder and pioneering humanitarian Henrietta Szold inspired generations with her healthcare and education work on behalf of immigrants, the persecuted, and Jews and Arabs alike.
Uniquely told through magical realism and animation, the last living witnesses of a small Polish town disclose stories of love, betrayal and survival.
Freedom fighter, spy, femme fatale: Twenty years after her mother’s death, a journalist discovers a secret journal revealing her mother’s hidden past and harrowing, heroic life.
