In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape. Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then 10 years old, was among them. In this film, he breaks his 20-year silence about the brutal kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during his community’s exodus out of Africa. This life-defining event launches an inquiry into identity, leading him to African, Asian and Latino Jews in Israel and the U.S.
Suggested donation $5
Phone: 205-510-9024
Email: mcohen@bhamjcc.org
2016/12/06 - 2016/12/06
Levite Jewish Community Center
3960 Montclair Road, Birmingham, AL 35213