Arts and Entertainment
January 21, 2025
From: International Jewish Film FestivalThe Altoona Jewish Film Festival was created in 2000 to bring the riches and diversity of Jewish content films to the Jewish and general communities in our area. Typically four films are shown yearly during the month of February and vary widely in content. Prior to each film, the Federation helps sponsor a community dinner. Funding for this evening is through admission fees and Federation sponsorship. A committee from the Jewish community plans each year’s festival.
Appetizers and Dinner 5:30 to 6:30 pm at our NEW LOCATON, the Agudath Achim Social Hall followed by the movie at 7:00 pm at the PSU Altoona Devorris Downtown Center. The before movie meal is $20 and the movie is $5.
Schedule Of Events:
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
SPIRITUAL AUDACITY
USA, 2021, documentary, English, 96 minutes
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the
most remarkable and inspiring figures of the
American 20th Century. He was a mentor to
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the entire Civil Rights Movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue.
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
NO NAME RESTAURANT
GERMAN, 2021, drama/comedy, English, 121 minutes
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. To save the synagogue of
the once largest Jewish community in the world from being shut down, Ben, an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn Jew visiting Jerusalem, is sent out to be the desperately needed tenth man for the ceremonies of Pesach. Will Ben save the day.
March 6, 2025
BAD SHABBOS
USA, 2004, romantic comedy, English, 86 minutes When two couples gather for a traditional Shabbat dinner, things spiral faster than you can say “hamotzi” when an accidental death (or...murder?)
derails the evening entirely, and devoutly Catholic prospective in-laws are due any moment to meet David’s very Jewish family.
March 13, 2025
RED SEA DIVING RESORT
USA, 2019, drama, English, 129 minutes
The Red Sea Diving Resort is based on true events, namely the Operation Brothers mission which ran from 1979 to 1984 and saved the lives of thousands of Ethiopian Jews using the hotel for a risky operation smuggling refugees to the East African coast, and then onwards by boat to safety and new lives in Israel.
Cost:
Film Donation $5.00/person
students are free
Date: February 20 - March 13, 2025
Time: 7:00pm
Location:
Devorris Downtown Center, 1431 12th Avenue
Altoona, PA 16601