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we added 11 live virtual Q&A discussions with filmmakers spy. Berg’s extraordinary, improbable story is told with rare inflicts severe methods of discipline. However, when she
and directors as well as a Friday film club for members to historical footage and revealing interviews with an all-star commits such a grave error that even her father isn’t willing
discuss the week’s films. This year it’s not just about showing roster of commentators from the worlds of history, sports, to punish her, she goes on a self-destructive path seeking to
great films but also about the opportunity to offer personal and spy craft. punish herself.
and meaningful experiences for our community. During this • Asia: For Asia, motherhood has always been an ongoing • Starry Skies Above a Roman Ghetto: The past interlaces
year when everything has gone virtual, it’s what will make struggle rather than obvious instinct. Asia concentrates on her with the present — the discovery of a mysterious yellowed
us stand out from other festivals.”Films include: job as a nurse while her daughter hangs out at the skate-park photograph depicting a little girl will lead Christian and
• Thou Shalt Not Hate: When Simone Segre, a renowned with her friends. Their routine is shaken when Vika’s health Jewish students to search for the truth. They undertake a
surgeon of Jewish origins, finds himself assisting a man who deteriorates rapidly and Asia must step in and become the journey through the memory of a painful past that is hard to
was in a hit and run accident, he discovers a Nazi tattoo on mother her daughter so desperately needs. forget, such as the memory of the raid on the Jewish ghetto
the man’s chest and ultimately abandons him to destiny. Filled • God of the Piano: For Anat, music is everything. Having of Rome.
with guilt, he ends up tracing the man’s family and builds a never been able to reach her father’s musical standards, she Tickets, film descriptions, trailers, and schedules are
challenging yet important relationship with the man’s three rests her hopes on the child she’s about to have. However, available at www.PBJFF.org.
children. as her son the young pianist grows up, his lack of respect for
• The Spy Behind Home Plate: This documentary is about his grandfather becomes an obstacle to his career. Exploring Biblical Secrets
Moe Berg, the Major League Baseball player turned WWII • Broken Mirrors: Ariella has a strict, military father who
Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens offered a six-session
course from the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), titled
Secrets of the Bible: Iconic Stories, Mystical Meanings, and
Their Lessons for Life.
“People tend to read biblical stories as they do primitive
mythology,” says Rabbi Dovid Vigler, the local JLI
Instructor in Palm Beach Gardens. “Our course invited
participants to look deeper and discover the underlying
themes and relevant life lessons that these stories were
designed to convey.”

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