Events

Join us in the Cramer-Jacobs Family Culinary Studio at the J for a class connected to Once Upon My Mother. Join pastry chef Stefanie Bishop for a hands-on French pastry class where you’ll learn classic techniques for creating elegant, bakery-worthy treats. Master refined skills, work with beautiful ingredients and take home delicious pastries inspired by […]

Drama-Comedy | 2025 | 102 min | France, Canada | French Inspired by Roland Perez’s bestselling memoir, Once Upon My Mother transports audiences to 1963 France, where Esther Perez, a Moroccan-Jewish immigrant and mother of six, refuses to accept doctors’ dire predictions about her newborn son’s disability. Fueled by fierce devotion, humor and faith, she embarks on a lifelong quest to […]

Reclaim space, strength and ease. This two-part workshop helps you release tension, improve mobility and build lasting shoulder strength. Learn why tightness and pain develop—and how small changes in posture and movement can prevent or heal common issues like rotator cuff or biceps tendon strain. You’ll refine everyday and athletic movements to protect your joints, […]

Animation | 24 minutes | English Join us for this screening of A Rugrats Passover, followed by activities for the family. Rugrats was one of the first animated series to focus on a Jewish holiday. In this groundbreaking episode, Grandpa Boris retells the story of the Exodus during a family Passover seder and the kids imagine themselves as part of Moses’s […]

Drama | 2025 | 112 Min | UK | English Set against the vibrant backdrop of “Swinging Sixties” Britain, Midas Man chronicles the life of Brian Epstein, the Jewish manager who transformed The Beatles from a scrappy Liverpool club band into a global phenomenon. Featuring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), alongside Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan, Eddie Izzard […]

Comedy | 2024 | 97 min | France | French Directed by Grégory Boutboul Daniel has it all: a booming business, a comfortable family life and a gift for persuasion. But when financial misconduct sends him from a luxury Neuilly apartment to a cramped prison cell in Poissy, his world is turned upside down. Stripped of his status and privilege, Daniel must […]

Documentary | 2025 | 90 min | Israel, Germany | Hebrew, English, Arabic Winner of the Investigative Documentary Award at the Haifa International Film Festival, UNraveling UNRWA chronicles the organization’s 75-year evolution, from its post-1948 origins as a temporary relief organization for Palestine refugees to its complex and often contentious role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Offering an unprecedented inside look, […]

Documentary | 2024 | 100 min | Poland | English, Polish, Hebrew, Latvian, Lithuanian For decades, the world believed Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust. Resistance: They Fought Back powerfully challenges that myth, revealing the largely untold story of Jewish resistance. This groundbreaking documentary chronicles more than 60 armed uprisings and thousands of Jewish partisans […]

Exclusive for teens, grades 8-12. Directed by Paz Schwartz Documentary | 77 minutes | Hebrew with English subtitles Displaced from their homes after October 7, a class of high school seniors evacuated from a Gaza border community faces an uncertain future. Refusing to be separated on the brink of graduation, the students band together to create a […]

Drama | 107 minutes | Hebrew with English subtitles Israel’s official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards is a searing exploration of grief, love, and obsession, inspired in part by director Tom Nesher’s personal family tragedy. After the sudden death of her younger brother, Eden discovers that he had a secret girlfriend. She is drawn […]

For kids ages 0-5 and their families Celebrate Shabbat with your friends and family with open gym in the gymnastics center followed by musical services. Open gym will begin at 10:00 AM in the gymnastics center, followed by music and services at 11:00 AM in the atrium of the Samuels Family Community Pavilion. RSVPs are […]

Experience Shabbat in a sophisticated setting featuring a three-course dinner, paired with two short films. $70 Per Person | Advance registration required by Thursday, March 19. Menu is kosher style with fish and vegetarian options, but not under the supervision of HKA. Adults 21 and over. This is not included in subscriptions or in select Patron of the Arts benefits. Let us […]

An Israeli drama by comedian and actor Adir Miller, The Ring follows a devout man who journeys to Budapest with his estranged daughter to find the gold ring that once saved his Holocaust-survivor mother—and may yet heal their fractured family. Closing Night reception follows film Reception supported by Elise Sheppard Community Partners: 3G HTX; Congregation Beth Yeshurun; Congregation Emanu El […]