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Brenda Scarborough bmscarborough at ysu.edu
Wed Sep 26 10:29:33 EDT 2007


FYI

Bonnie Deutsch Burdman, Director
Community Relations/Government Affairs
Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
505 Gypsy Lane
Youngstown, OH   44420
(phone) 330-746-3250, ext. 183 (mobile) 330-770-8702
(fax) 330-746-7926
www.jewishyoungstown.org
bdburdman at jewishyoungstown.org

Sunday, October 7th, 2007, 4:00 pm
USA Cinema, 930 Great East Plaza, Niles

Followed by a discussion led by Sam Kooperman and Bill Benedikt, recent 
participants in the largest mission of North American Jews to Ethiopia

Live and Become
Feature Film
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
France, Israel, 2004, 143 min., French, Hebrew, Amharic with English 
subtitles
Award-winning Director

Radu Mihaileanu ( Betrayal and Train of Life ) draws on personal 
childhood experiences to create this epic story of identity, sacrifice, 
love, and survival. In this emotionally searing film, a Christian 
mother forces her nine-year-old son, Shlomo, to declare himself Jewish 
in order to be included in Operation Moses, the 1984 rescue mission 
staged by the Israeli secret service to enable the Ethiopian Jewish 
community to escape the famine of the mid-eighties. The mother, knowing 
that she likely will never see her son again, admonishes him to "go, 
live and become." Shlomo arrives in Israel realizing that he must 
conceal his identity as a Christian and make a transformation into 
Israeli society. He must learn to live with the complexities of race 
and religion in a rapidly changing world, all the time yearning to be 
reunited with his biological mother.

Winner of the Audience Award for best film at the 2005 Berlin 
International Film Festival.

 
DoubleFeature
Thursday, October 11th, 2007, 7:00 pm
Youngstown State University, DeBartolo Hall Auditorium

West Bank Story

Short
Directed by Ari Sandel
USA, 2006, 20 min., English, Hebrew, Arabic, with English subtitles

West Bank Story is a musical comedy about David, an Israeli soldier, 
and Fatima, a Palestinian fast food cashier - an unlikely couple who 
fall in love amidst the animosity of their families’ dueling falafel 
stands in the West Bank. Tensions mount when the Kosher King’s new 
pastry machine juts onto Hummus Hut property. The Palestinians ruin the 
machine and the Israelis respond by building a wall between the two 
eating establishments. The couple professes their love for each other, 
triggering a chain of events that destroys both restaurants and forces 
all to find common ground in an effort to rebuild, planting a seed of 
hope.-"a little singing, a little dancing, a lot of hummus."

Winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Short Action Film

Followed by:
Blues by the Beach
Documentary
Produced by Jack Baxter USA, Israel, 2005, 75 min., English

This film is an unscripted, unplanned and unprecedented account of a 
terrorist attack at Mike’s Place, a popular live music bar on the Tel 
Aviv beach front.

Filmmaker Jack Baxter set out to show that terror, fear and bloodshed 
is not all that exists in Israel, and selected Mike’s Place to show the 
laughter and music that still resonates throughout the country. No one 
could have ever suspected that this location would be the target of a 
suicide bombing. Blues by the Beach highlights the effects of terror, 
but also shows the aftermath and the healing that takes place as the 
members of this close-knit community struggle to move on while still 
honoring those who were lost.

Winner of the Conflict & Resolution Award, Hamptons International Film 
Festival.
 

Sunday, October 14th, 2007, 2:00 pm
Butler Institute of American Art

The Rape of Europa

Documentary Written/Directed/Produced by Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, 
Nicole Newnham Narrated by Joan Allen
USA, 2006, 117 min., English

The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft and 
deliberate destruction of European artwork by the Nazis during World 
War IIand the extraordinary efforts to restore these masterpieces to 
their rightful owners. F or 12 years, the Nazis looted and destroyed 
art on a scale unprecedented in history. But heroic efforts of the US 
Monuments Men as well as young art historians and curators from America 
and across Europe fought back with a miraculous campaign to rescue and 
return the many lost, hidden and stolen treasures. Even today, more 
than 60 years later, this tragic legacy continues to play out as looted 
collectors recover major works of art, conservators repair battle 
damage, and nations fight over the fate of ill-gotten spoils of war. 
2006 Audience Award for Best Documentary, Boston Jewish Film Festival

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007, 7:00 pm
USA Cinema, 930 Great East Plaza, Niles

Sweet Mud
Feature Film
Written/Directed by Dror Shaul Israel, Germany, 2006,
100 min., Hebrew with English subtitles


One of the most accomplished and celebrated international dramas of the 
year, Sweet Mud peels back the romantic mythology surrounding communal 
life on an Israeli kibbutz to tell a more personal, poignant story of 
thwarted love, adolescent awakening and human longings and failings. I 
t is 1974. On a kibbutz in southern Israel, amid verdant, fertile 
landscapes, a boy is entering a troubled bar mitzvah year. Dvir (Tomer 
Steinhof) is 12; his father is dead, his brother is in the army and his 
mother Miri ( Ronit Yudkevitch) is emotionally fragile, nearly 
unstable. When her much-rumored boyfriend actually appears from 
Switzerland, things begin to look up for Dvir and Miri. Before long, 
however, a series of small but earthshaking conflicts will test the 
nascent family as well as the ability of the kibbutz community to take 
care of its most vulnerable members.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at Sundance, the 
Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and six Israeli 
Academy Awards including Best Picture.

 
Ticket Information


Click here to download Ticket Request Form.
http://youngstown.ujcfedweb.org/local_includes/downloads/20781.pdf


Payment may be made by check or money order made payable to:
YSU Youngstown Area Jewish Film Festival
Office of Events Management, Youngstown State University, One 
University Plaza, Youngstown, Ohio 44555. Tickets may also be purchased 
at the Jewish Community Center Bursar’s Office, 505 Gypsy Lane, 
Youngstown, Ohio 44505

For more information contact Myra Benedikt

Ticket prices are as follows:
$27.00........Festival Pass, all five films
$8.00..........Single ticket, adults 18 and over
$7.00..........Single ticket, seniors 60 and over
$6.00..........Single ticket, teens/YSU Students with valid I.D.

 
	

 
	

 
	

 
	

 

USA Cinema

USA Cinema is located at 930 Great East Plaza, Niles, Ohio 44446.

 

Parking at YSU

For the October 11 double feature, theatergoers are encouraged to use 
the M-24 parking lot at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Grant Street, 
enter off Grant Street. Park closest to Arlington Street and cross
Fifth Avenue. Access to the DeBartolo Hall Auditorium is through the 
south or west doors. Disability parking is available in the M-2 parking 
deck off Fifth Avenue.

 

Parking for the Butler

Please use the F -1 parking lot on University Plaza for the October 14 
film Rape of Europa to be shown in Zona Auditorium at the Butler 
Institute of American Art.

 

Sponsors
Youngstown State University
Judaic and Holocaust Studies Program Committee
Frances and Lillian Schermer Charitable Trusts
Jewish Community Center
USA Cinema Butler Institute of American Art
B’nai B’rith Mahoning Lodge 339
Zionist Organization of America
Youngstown Area Jewish Federation
Tri-County HadassahTemple El Emeth

 
	

 
	

 
	

 
	

 



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Brenda Scarborough, LMTA II
Maag Library/Information Services
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza 
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