Chabad.org: Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Engages Female-Only Audiences

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by Libby Herz

One of the most-widely attended Jewish film festivals in the United States shined a spotlight on the lives of religious women this week, treating all-female audiences to screenings of a uniquely feminine work of art and a chance to get to know the film’s director.

With a cast dominated by religious women and girls – many of them from the Chabad-Lubavitch run Beth Rivkah High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. – “The Heart That Sings” hit theaters last year after [...]

“The Heart that Sings” at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival 2/26 – 2/27

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival

Sunday, Feb. 26 @ 1:05pm
SOLD OUT!

Monday, Feb. 27 @ 5:15pm
Encore Screening by Popular Demand!!
BUY TICKETS NOW AT AJFF SITE

Location:
United Artists Tara Cinemas 4
2345 Cheshire Bridge Road
Atlanta, GA 30324

Parking: Free parking is available outside the theater entrance and in surrounding Cheshire Square Shopping Center.

View our official listing on the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival website

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ATARA Conference 2/10-2/12

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A full weekend of arts and inspiration!

Friday Night February 10 – ONEG for the ARTS

Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY
894 Woodmere Place Woodmere, NY 11598
http://www.aishkodesh.org/
Improv Theater & Harmonious Zmirot
Open to the Community

Motzei Shabbos February 11 – Coffee House at the Jewish Music Cafe!

401 9th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 (F to 7th Ave, R to 9th St)
http://www.jewishmusiccafe.com
Night of women’s music with MC Elana Greenspan!
Multiple talented singer-songwriters and Jewish Art sale

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 12 – ARTS CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN
Workshops and programs 10am-5pm [...]

December 18, 2011 – Benefit Concert in Great Neck, NY

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All proceeds will benefit Kol Neshama, a Los Angeles-based non-profit corporation dedicated to providing professional artistic training and performance opportunities for girls and women in a Torah-observant setting and to developing an emerging artistic voice through the creation of distinctly Jewish film and stage productions.

Sunday, December 18, 2011
3 – 5 pm
Refreshments/Meet & Greet immediately to follow.
$15 admission fee

Performances by recording artist Elana Greenspan, dancer Beth Jucovy of Dance Visions NY, award winning comedian Joan Weiner, the choir of Yeshiva University [...]

Photos from Ten Yad Performance of “The Hasty Chuppah”

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Set in the 1700’s, the story portrays Sarah, the beautiful, righteous innkeeper’s daughter as she desperately tries to escape the marriage proposal forced on her by the poretz’s depraved son.

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