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Sat. Oct. 16, 8:00 pm	OFJCC	Buy Tickets
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The personal dramas of the immigrant Zrubavel family and the universal inter-generational cultural struggles that come with assimilation are depicted in this first feature film made by Ethiopian Israelis. This film explores the tensions that develop when the children of a dignified patriarch reject his constant guidance to preserve their traditions, to work hard and to obtain the education required to succeed in the modern society in which they live, in the country that they love—one in which he himself will remain an outsider. One of the best feature films from Israel in the past few years.

After the film, hear from Barbara Ribakove Gordon, director of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ). Barbara was summoned to Ethiopia in May 1991 to participate in Operation Sololman. She helped the Israelis process over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in Addis Ababa for the historic 36-hour airlift to Israel. She flew out on the last plane.