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Upcoming Daytimers Events:

Daytimers Forum

With a few exceptions, due to Holidays, the Forums convene on the second Wednesday of each month, September to June. Sessions start at 12:00 noon. Attendees may bring a pareve or dairy brown-bag lunch. Beverages and desserts are provided. Programs start promptly at 12:30 pm.

Wed, February 8, Dylan Kaplan, Researcher and Assistant to Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, IbnKhaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University, will discuss Jewish—Muslim Relations.

Interfaith activist Dylan Kaplan, researcher and assistant to Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Kaldun chair of Islamic Studies at American University, will be the guest speaker. In a talk titled "Jewish - Muslim Relations," Kaplan will describe efforts to bring both communities together. As an American University student and undergraduate senator, Kaplan represents 6,000 students in the student government. In a recent statement, he observed: "Interfaith dialogue is a challenging enterprise at this time of widespread Islamophobia, prejudice, and a media that often increases misunderstanding among people." Our speaker's presentation will underscore this challenge.

Wed, March 14, Scott Miller, Director of Curatorial Affairs, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss Rescuing the Evidence of the Holocaust.

Wed, April 25, Professor Yoram Peli, Chair in Israel Studies and director of the new Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland. Professor Peli is a former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former faculty member at Tel Aviv University. At our forum he will address issues related to the upcoming (April 26) Israel Independence Day observance.

Daytimers Jewish Film Festival

Wed, February 15, Time of Favor, Israel, 2000 (1 hour, 30 minutes). A highly respected soldier in the IDF, Menachem is also a devout student of controversial West Bank settlement leader, Rabbi Meltzer. Despite concerns of the army and the Israeli Secret Service, he receives permission to lead an army unit made up of fellow students of the rabbi. Throw in the rabbi’s beautiful daughter, Michal, Menachem’s best friend, Pini, and a plot to blow up the Temple Mount and you have all that’s needed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Wed, March 21, Checking Out, USA, 2005 (1 hour, 35 minutes). On the eve of his 90^th birthday, eccentric, celebrated thespian Morris Applebaum (Peter Falk, no less) summons his three grown children to a festive shindig no one will ever forget. Because when the party’s over, Morris plans to take his “final exit.” He wants to go out the way he’s lived: on his own terms. His children are appalled, but can they come together in time to prevent this?

Wed, April 18, Sister Rose's Passion, USA, 2004 (52 minutes). Sister Rose Thering, a catholic nun, is an amazing woman. Taught that the Jews killed Christ, she could not understand why the Church would condemn such good people as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This short documentary (nominated for an Oscar) follows her life’s work against anti-Semitism – nothing less than influencing the Vatican to change the church’s position on Jews and Judaism. Discussion to follow.

With a few exceptions due to the holidays, the Jewish Film Festival is held on the third Wednesday of the month, November through April, in the Stempler Social Hall and is free and open to all. Bring a pareve or brown-bag dairy lunch at noon, desserts are always served. Programs begin promptly at 12:30 pm.

We look forward to seeing you at these exciting events..