Global Connections with Robert Siegel: How to be a Better Person Robert Siegel (Former Senior Host of NPR’s All Things Considered for 31 years) interviews: David Brooks (Columnist, New York Times) Robert J. Waldinger, M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School) Rabbi David Wolpe (Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi, Sinai Temple) Wednesday, February 14th @ 4pm […]

As topical as it gets, in the fall of 2019, Filmmaker David Deri-Barkai began documenting four families, parents and their children – his secular gay family in Tel Aviv, a Jewish Ultra-Orthodox family in Beit Shemesh, a Muslim family in Taibeh and a Jewish Religious family in the Ofra settlement (West Bank). The pandemic that […]

Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant. WHY WE LIKE THIS FILM: A superb, tense drama set in pre-war Italy. […]