Jewish Poultry Farmers in the Garden State

New York, 2022. Jes¬sa Gid¬ney is try¬ing to have it all – a high-pow¬ered legal career, a mean¬ing¬ful mar¬riage, and hope¬ful¬ly, one day, a child. But when her pro¬fes¬sion¬al ambi¬tions come up short and Jes¬sa finds her¬self at a turn¬ing point, she leans into her fam¬i¬ly’s his¬to¬ry of activism by tak¬ing on pro bono work at a near¬by deten¬tion cen¬ter. There she meets Iso¬bel Perez – a young moth¬er fight¬ing to stay with her daugh¬ter – but as she gets to know Iso¬bel, an unset¬tling rev¬e¬la¬tion about Iso¬bel’s health leads Jes¬sa to uncov¬er a hor¬ri¬fy¬ing pat¬tern of med¬ical mal¬prac¬tice with¬in the deten¬tion facil¬i¬ty. One that shock¬ing¬ly has ties to her own family.
Vir¬ginia, 1927. Car¬rie Buck is an ordi¬nary young woman in the cen¬ter of an extra¬or¬di¬nary legal bat¬tle at the fore¬front of the Amer¬i¬can eugen¬ics con¬ver¬sa¬tion. From a poor fam¬i¬ly, she was only six years old when she first became a ward of the state. Une¬d¬u¬cat¬ed and with¬out any sup¬port, she spends her youth dream¬ing about a dif¬fer¬ent future – one sep¬a¬rate from her exploita¬tive fos¬ter fam¬i¬ly – unknow¬ing of the rip¬ples her small, coun¬try life will have on an entire nation.
As Jes¬sa works to assem¬ble a case against the prison and the crimes she believes are being com¬mit¬ted there, she dis¬cov-ers the land¬mark Supreme Court case involv¬ing Car¬rie Buck with shock¬ing¬ly sim¬i¬lar impli¬ca¬tions to the one before her now. Her con¬nec¬tion to the case, how¬ev¬er, is deep¬er and much more per¬son¬al than she ever knew – send¬ing her down new paths that will leave her for¬ev¬er changed and deter¬mined to fight for these women, no mat¬ter the cost.

Temple Beth Shalom is thrilled to host one of The Marjorie & Lewis Katz Jewish Community Center (JCC), Arts Books & Culture Festival’s featured authors.  Jacqueline Friedland.  She will be […]

The award-winning documentary film, How Saba Kept Singing, shares the story of Cantor,
Holocaust Survivor, and Military Veteran David S. Wisnia, affectionately known as "Saba," who
spends his later years travelling with his grandson and musical accompanist, Avi Wisnia. David
shares the story of how he survived the Holocaust through music. For years, Cantor Wisnia’s
story centered around the belief that he survived Auschwitz mainly by using his beautiful
singing voice to entertain his Nazi captors. These performances in the death camp gave him
status as a “privileged prisoner.” However, when David takes his family back to Poland for one
last performance, Avi starts asking questions and they discover that someone else had a hand
in Saba’s survival. Please join us for an uplifting story about music, faith, family, and resilience,
proving love can grow and take hold in even the darkest of places.
FREE FOR EDUCATORS
For NJ Educators: 2.0 PDH (professional development hours)

A midlife cri¬sis is hard¬ly unique — unless it involves time trav¬el and mul¬ti¬ple rein¬car¬na¬tions.

Ephraim stress¬es over his teach¬ing job, obses¬sive-com¬pul¬sive dis¬or¬der, and his less-than-stel¬lar role as a hus¬band and father. Isn’t there more to life?

He’s about to find out, but it will take trav¬el¬ing to past lives to rec¬ti¬fy wrongs from pre¬vi¬ous eras.

His san¬i¬ty teeters between day-to-day life strug¬gles and treach¬er¬ous events of the past, includ¬ing a face-off with Spain’s Grand Inquisi¬tor, labor¬ing in a sweat¬shop, and forg¬ing a rela¬tion¬ship with Miss Amer¬i¬ca of 1945, among oth¬ers.

Ephraim wants to quit but is compelled by a force from somewhere deep inside — and Above. His last mission could bring redemption to the entire world, if the past doesn’t kill him first.
Ticket: $15