Sephardi Federation of Palm Beach County

Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series
2025-12-10 13:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | LEVIS JCC SANDLER CENTER, 21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton, FL, 33428, United States
Wednesdays at The Sandler
“Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series” at 1:00pm
In-Person with Rose Pappo Allen
$10 per film/Prepaid $40 for all 5 films. FREE to PAID Members of our Sephardi Federation!!
This season the film selection will feature Sephardim in Surprising Places; Jews of many sorts. Hidden in North Africa, Uzbekistan, China, India, Cairo and Italy we find largely unknown ancient communities that thrived for centuries and were forced to transform. These stories reveal our shared experiences of survival. Each film viewing will be followed by in-depth discussion providing historic and cultural context to the subject as well as Q&R.

SFPBC At The Sandler Center
FREE Gold Membership for all Paid Members of SFPBC
Call to register and earn Discounts to ALL Sandler programs!
Levis JCC Phyllis & Harvey Sandler Center | levisjcc.org
21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton, FL 33428 | 561-558-2520
Use this QR code to PURCHASE SFPBC TICKETS or just click on the image*
Set Up An Account and Log In to Access Your Gold Discount then search date of events.
*Online ticket purchases include a $2.50 service fee. Call in purchases to avoid fees.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025 “Shalom Bollywood”
Learn about the unlikely story of the 2000-year-old Indian Jewish community and its formative place in shaping the world’s largest film industry. When Indian cinema began 100 years ago it was taboo for Hindu and Islamic women to perform on screen, so Indian Jewish women took on the female leadroles, which they dominated for decades. Film clips from the era share the infectious, signature singing and dancing style known as Bollywood. The documentary introduces Sephardic history in India and then focuses on the lives of five of the greatest Jewish actors from the period.
2018, 76 minutes, English, Danny Ben-Moshe

Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series
2026-03-11 13:00 - 16:30
Wednesdays at The Sandler
“Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series” at 1:00pm
In-Person with Rose Pappo Allen
$10 per film/Prepaid $40 for all 5 films. FREE to PAID Members of our Sephardi Federation!!
This season the film selection will feature Sephardim in Surprising Places; Jews of many sorts. Hidden in North Africa, Uzbekistan, China, India, Cairo and Italy we find largely unknown ancient communities that thrived for centuries and were forced to transform. These stories reveal our shared experiences of survival. Each film viewing will be followed by in-depth discussion providing historic and cultural context to the subject as well as Q&R.

SFPBC At The Sandler Center
FREE Gold Membership for all Paid Members of SFPBC
Call to register and earn Discounts to ALL Sandler programs!
Levis JCC Phyllis & Harvey Sandler Center | levisjcc.org
21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton, FL 33428 | 561-558-2520
Use this QR code to PURCHASE SFPBC TICKETS or just click on the image*
Set Up An Account and Log In to Access Your Gold Discount then search date of events.
*Online ticket purchases include a $2.50 service fee. Call in purchases to avoid fees.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza
“From Cairo to the Cloud” tells the gripping story of the discovery of the Cairo Geniza, a vast treasure trove of manuscripts hidden for centuries in the “geniza,” or sacred storeroom, of an ancient synagogue in Old Cairo. The Geniza is the largest cache of Jewish history ever found, illuminating over a thousand years of Jewish, Christian and Moslem life in the heart of the Islamic world.
2020, 92 minutes, English, Michelle Paymar

Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series
2026-03-18 13:00 - 17:00
Wednesdays at The Sandler
“Fascinating Sephardim: A Film Series” at 1:00pm
In-Person with Rose Pappo Allen
$10 per film/Prepaid $40 for all 5 films. FREE to PAID Members of our Sephardi Federation!!
This season the film selection will feature Sephardim in Surprising Places; Jews of many sorts. Hidden in North Africa, Uzbekistan, China, India, Cairo and Italy we find largely unknown ancient communities that thrived for centuries and were forced to transform. These stories reveal our shared experiences of survival. Each film viewing will be followed by in-depth discussion providing historic and cultural context to the subject as well as Q&R.

SFPBC At The Sandler Center
FREE Gold Membership for all Paid Members of SFPBC
Call to register and earn Discounts to ALL Sandler programs!
Levis JCC Phyllis & Harvey Sandler Center | levisjcc.org
21050 95th Avenue S., Boca Raton, FL 33428 | 561-558-2520
Use this QR code to PURCHASE SFPBC TICKETS or just click on the image*
Set Up An Account and Log In to Access Your Gold Discount then search date of events.
*Online ticket purchases include a $2.50 service fee. Call in purchases to avoid fees.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 — A Double Bill
“The Jewish Ghetto of Venice: History, Faith, Survival”
Nearly one-third of all Hebrew books printed in Europe before 1650 were made in Venice. In spite of their confinement, the Ghetto became the global heart of Jewish culture during the 16th and 17th centuries; the most vibrant Jewish center in Europe.
2025, 25 minutes, English, Italian, Slice
Iom Romi (A Day in Rome)
“Iom Romì” chronicles a day in the life of the contemporary Jewish community of Rome, which for centuries has lived in limbo between persecution and integration. As the only cultural group in the city that can claim an uninterrupted line of descent from the times of the empire, Roman Jews have fostered rituals and traditions that are unique in the world. From dawn to dusk, through the voices of several characters living and working in the historic Ghetto quarter, “Iom Romì” tells the story of a community both fiercely independent and distinctly Roman.
2017, 30 minutes, English, Italian with English subtitles, Valerio Ciriaci

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