Israel 75th Birthday Movie Series

Join us on the first Monday of every month to celebrate Israel’s 75th birthday! Everyone is welcome to share in this joyous year. Movies are in Hebrew with English subtitles.

Schmooze at 1:30, showtime at 2.

Israeli movies and snacks provided by the Birmingham Jewish Federation.

• May 1: The Band’s Visit is a 2007 romantic drama about eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra who mistakenly end up in a small town in the Negev Desert.
• June 5: Maktub is a 2017 comedy about two low-level mobsters in Jerusalem who change their ways after surviving a bombing and set about making strangers’ Wailing Wall prayers come true.
• July 3: The Wedding Plan is a 2017 romantic comedy about a woman who decides to keep the reservation for her canceled wedding while trusting God to provide her with a husband.
• August 7: The Women’s Balcony is a 2016 dramatic comedy where an accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.