Events

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Classic Film Night: Crossing Delancey

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Comedy, Romance | Directed by Joan Micklin Silver | 1988 | USA | English | 97 minutes | Kaplan Theatre In this delightful, nostalgic romantic comedy, Izzy Grossman (Amy Irving) works at a bookstore on the Upper West Side, where she enjoys an intellectually fulfilling life mingling with renowned authors. Meanwhile, her grandmother Ida plots […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary subject, Tessa Veksler in attendance  Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary subject, Tessa Veksler in attendance  Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of anti-Israel protests fueled by propaganda spread […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Teen Night: October H8te

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Exclusive for teens grades 8-12  Documentary | Directed by Wendy Sachs | 2024 | USA | English | 100 minutes | Kaplan Theatre   Documentary Film Subject Tessa Veksler in attendance Emmy Award winner Wendy Sachs deftly explores the eruption of antisemitism on American college campuses following October 7, taking us through a timeline of […]

Event Series Houston Jewish Film Festival

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Here Lived

Holocaust Museum Houston 5401 Caroline St, Houston, TX, United States

Documentary | Directed by Jane Wells | 2024 | USA | English | 79 minutes | Holocaust Museum Houston In 1992, German conceptual artist Gunter Demnig created the first Stolpersteine—a concrete block topped with a polished brass plate hand-stamped with the names and fates of Holocaust victims. Across Europe, there are now more than 100,000 […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara 

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Drama | Directed by Marco Bellocchio | 2024 | Italy, France, Germany | Italian, Hebrew with English subtitles | 134 minutes | Kaplan Theatre Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio delves into his country’s antisemitic past with the unsettling 1850s story of young Edgardo Mortara, who was controversially taken from his Jewish family in Bologna after a […]

Open Gym & Tot Shabbat

Evelyn Rubenstein JCC 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX, United States

Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by Shabbat fun. Open gym will begin at 10:30 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:30 AM in the atrium of the Samuels Family Community Pavilion. RSVPs are required and spaces are limited. Cost: $6/child […]

Houston Jewish Film Festival: Closing Night: All About the Levkoviches

Kaplan Theatre @ the J 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX

Drama | Directed by Ádám Breier | 2024 | Hungary | Hungarian with English subtitles | 85 minutes | Kaplan Theatre  Set in contemporary Budapest, Ádám Breier’s charming, bittersweet dramedy focuses on the gruff but lovable Hungarian boxing trainer, Tamás, who has been recently reunited with his estranged son, Iván. Under the same roof sitting […]

J-Serve 2025

Evelyn Rubenstein JCC 5601 S. Braeswood, Houston, TX, United States

Every year, Jewish teens around the world join each other throughout the spring to make their community and the world a better place. On Sunday, April 6, be part of solving the crises in our community! Open to all Jewish Teens in grades 8-12. The Houston regional J-Serve is a collaborative partnership between teen leaders […]

Matzah & Magic

Godwin Park 5101 Rutherglenn Dr, Houston, Texas

Get ready for a fun-filled and creative Passover experience like never before! "Matzah & Magic" brings the mystery of magic, creativity, and hands-on fun to bring the Passover story to life in the most magical way possible! Join PJ Library and the Evelyn Rubenstein JCC for an afternoon of fun, including: DIY Charoset Bar: Ever […]