Docu-film: Ashkenaz (2007, 72 min), directed by Rachel Leah Jones

September 27 at 4:00pm at Congregation Nahalat Shalom

While Ashkenazi Jews (of European descent) present as the social and cultural norm within Israeli society, they don’t necessarily see or think of themselves in racial or ethnic terms because by now, "aren't we all Israeli?" Yiddish has been replaced with Hebrew, exile with occupation, the shtetl with the kibbutz. But what are the views of the Mizrahim (Jews of North African and Middle Eastern descent)? How do they see their place in the remade Jewish society of Israel?