In-Person Screening: Thursday, Oct. 20 · 7 p.m.
Post-film Speaker: Sigal Kanotopsky
Virtual Screening: Friday, Oct. 21 – Sunday, Oct. 23
Q&A via Zoom: Sunday, Oct. 23 • 11 a.m. with director Levi Zini, moderated by Carin Savel, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.
(Upon ticket purchase, a Zoom link will be emailed to you.)

Directed by Levi Zini
Israel, 2021
Documentary, 1h 30m
Hebrew with English subtitles

Yerusalem, a new feature documentary brings to life the story of a long, dramatic and tumultuous journey as the Jewish Ethiopian community, also known as “Beta-Israel”, finally after centuries find their way back to the heart of the Jewish people– Jerusalem. It is the story of an isolated Jewish tribe who kept its faith for thousands of years even though they lived in a hostile Christian environment. This is the story of ancient Jewish traditions, of heroic actions and daring covert operations. But mainly, this is the story of a powerful religious yearning that has been passed down from father to son for countless generations.

"Exodus of the Black Jews"', "Rescue of the Lost Tribe" cried out international news headlines in January 1985 when the airlift known as "Operation Moses" was revealed. In one of several clandestine operations in the Ethiopian Exodus, Israeli Mossad, the US administration and world Jewry collaborated to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews from the hellhole refugee camps in Sudan. The London Times wrote: "The airlift was in its way as inspiring a story as the Biblical Exodus".

Yerusalem is the complex story of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel bringing the stories of the first and second generation of immigrants, rabbinical cases, Aliyah activists, Mossad personnel, ship commanders and pilots, decision-makers and many others who risked their lives to bring Ethiopian Jews to their ancestral land, where they were required to prove their Jewishness and fight for their legitimate place in Israeli society.

In-person screening followed by a talkback with Sigal Kanotopsky, Jewish Agency for Israel’s Northeast Regional Director for the U.S, with moderator Carin Savel, CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.

In partnership with the Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County.

In Partnership With

Co-sponsored by Congregation Agudath Sholom, the Stamford Chapter of Hadassah, Young Israel and JCC Tzahal Shalom.    

Member $10 / Community $ 15
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