Tuesday, June 18 | 7:30 PM

View a special presentation of the Miami Jewish Film Festival 2024 Official Selection as it returns to Miami for an encore one-night-only event as part of the Israeli Film Series hosted at the Michael-Ann Russell JCC. Prepare to be swept off your feet by this wildly inventive and dazzling musical rap opera - an Israeli box office sensation! - as the story unfolds of a detective searching for a missing woman through 15 mesmerizing musical numbers and stunning visuals.

Michael-Ann Russell JCC, 18900 NE 25th Avenue, Miami

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On JBS: Celebrating Shavuot; Torah Giants; Nightingale of Iran; Four Big Jewish Questions

Watch JBS on Comcast X-1 Box Ch 1684, Atlantic Broadband 168, Hotwire Ch 269, DirecTV Ch 388, Blue Stream Ch 110, streamed on Roku under "educational", Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and jbstv.org. For a complete and timely schedule and other television providers, go to www.jbstv.org

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Celebrating Shavuot

TUESDAY

4:00pm Four Big Jewish Questions (1): Pluralism

5:30pm L'Chayim: Genius of Midrash

6:00pm (Live) Shavuot Services: Central Synagogue Encore 10:00pm

7:30pm Shavuot Services: Hampton Synagogue Encore 11:30pm

8:30pm Jewish Insights: "Torah Giants" - NEW

9:30pm L'Chayim: David Hartman z"l

WEDNESDAY

6:00am-9:00am Jewish Insights: "Torah Giants" - Marathon

9:00am Creating Art from Torah Texts

9:30am (Live) Shavuot Services: Central Synagogue Encore 1:00pm

11:00am Shavuot Services: Hampton Synagogue Encore 2:30pm

12:30pm L'Chayim: Genius of Midrash

4:00pm Four Big Jewish Questions (2): Love Your Enemy?

5:30pm Four Big Jewish Questions (3): Strife and Reconciliation

7:00pm Shavuot Cooking: Cheese Blintzes (Culinary Judaics Academy

7:30pm Shavuot Services: Hampton Synagogue Encore 11:30pm

8:30pm People of the Book: Rabbi Sacks z"l

9:00pm L'Chayim: David Hartman z"l & The Genius of Midrash

10:00pm Four Big Jewish Questions (4): God

THURSDAY

6:00am Jewish Insights "Torah Giants"

7:00am Human Equality in Torah

8:00am L'Chayim: Ten Commandments

9:00am Jewish 101 for Shavuot Encore 1:00pm

10:30am Rabbi Telushkin: Torah Values

11:00am Shavuot Services: Hampton Encore 2:30pm

12:30pm People of the Book: Rabbi Sacks z"l

4:00pm-8:30pm Four Big Jewish Questions - Marathon

Fighting Antisemitism – The ISGAP Hour: Pedagogy

Lessons centered on how to teach about antisemitism and hate are offered by Devin Randolph, (Claflin University) and Katya Gibel Mevorach (Grinnell College)

Sunday - 7:00pm Monday - 2:00am, 7:00am & 1:00pm Tuesday - 5:00am Friday - 4:30am

Culinary Judaics Academy: Shavuot Cooking - Cheese Blintzes

CJA chefs Danny and Zoey make cheese blintzes with apple topping for Shavuot, wrapping their cooking lesson in the lessons of Torah and the harvest holiday that celebrates receiving the sacred tradition at Mt. Sinai.

Sunday - 10:00pm Monday - 1:00am, 3:30am & 8:30pm Tuesday - 7:30am & 11:30am Wednesday - 7:00pm

In the Spotlight with Abigail Pogrebin: Jewish Braille: Nightingale of Iran

Sisters Danielle and Galeet Dardashti join Abigail Pogrebin to discuss their documentary podcast series, The Nightingale of Iran, in which they reveal painful secrets and explore why their family left Iran in the 1960s at the height of national fame.

Monday - 8:00pm & 11:00pm Tuesday - 2:00am, 7:00am & 11:00am Friday - 4:30pm & 9:30pm Saturday - 7:00pm

Four Big Jewish Questions for This Moment

Lesson 1 - Is Pluralism Really A Jewish Value?

Leading New York Rabbis Joshua M. Davidson (Temple Emanu-El) and Chaim Steinmetz (Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun) explore the Jewish value of pluralism, with moderator Abigail Pogrebin in a program of the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.

Tuesday - 4:00pm Wednesday - 1:00am Thursday - 5:30pm Saturday - 10:00pm

Lesson 2 - Is it A Mitzvah To Love Your Enemy?

Rabba Yaffa Epstein (Jewish Education Project) and Rabbi Shai Held (Hadar Institute) grapple with the Jewish notion of loving your enemy, in this class from the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center moderated by Abigail Pogrebin.

Wednesday - 4:00pm Thursday - 1:30am & 7:00pm Saturday - 11:30pm

Lesson 3 - Strife and Reconciliation: How the Joseph Story Informs Our Time

Rabbis Ammiel Hirsch (Stephen Wise Free Synagogue) and Sharon Kleinbaum (Beit Simchat Torah) look at themes of strife and reconciliation as seen through the Joseph story, in a Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center class moderated by Abigail Pogrebin.

Wednesday - 5:30pm Thursday - 3:00am Friday - 10:00am

Lesson 4 - Putting More God In Our Lives

Rabbis Ben Spratt (Rodeph Sholom) and Elliot Cosgrove (Park Avenue Synagogue) join Abigail Pogrebin to discuss the essential question of adding more God into daily life, in this class from the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center.

Thursday - 4:00pm Friday - 1:00pm

Jewish Insights with Justin Pines: Book of Ruth with Yael Ziegler

(Torah Giants Part 5)###

Justin is joined by international Bible scholar Yael Ziegler, author of Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy, to discuss why most Jewish communities read the book of Ruth on Shavuot, and explore the story’s meaning and relevance today.

Tuesday - 8:30pm Wednesday - 12:30am , 7:00am Thursday - 5:00am Friday - 9:00am & 8:30pm Saturday - 8:30am & 4:00pm

Listen to this and other episodes of Jewish Insights as a JBS podcast!

Defending Israel with David Harris

Longtime Jewish frontline activist and JBS strategic analyst David Harris is joined in conversation about the Hamas-triggered war with Israel.

Thursday - 8:30pm & 11:30pm Friday - 2:00am, 5:30am, 8:30am, 12:30pm & 10:00pm Saturday - 5:30pm

NEWS & FEATURES FROM ISRAEL

Shavuot Schedule

ILTV News and News Updates

ILTV reports from Israel followed by JBS Daily News with Teisha Bader

Monday at 6:00pm & Friday at 5:00pm

On L’Chayim: Classic Conversations with Mark S. Golub z”l, celebrating Tora and Jewish peoplehood##

Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments and the Jewish notion of miracles are discussed by educator and writer Sara Esther Crispe and Rabbi Jeffrey Segelman of the Westchester Jewish Center.

Monday - 9:00pm Tuesday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm
Thursday - 8:00am Saturday - 6:00pm

Rabbi Norman Cohen - The Genius of Midrash

Using some of the Torah's most well-known stories, Norman J. Cohen, rabbi, professor of midrash, and former provost at HUC-JIR, illustrates the way in which Jews have read and understood the Bible through interpretative stories of the rabbis.

Tuesday - 5:30pm Wednesday - 3:30am & 12:30pm & 9:30pm

David Hartman z"l

Rabbi David Hartman z”l of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem speaks on the giving and receiving of the Torah at Sinai and how the Jewish tradition rejects fundamentalism.

Tuesday - 9:30pm Wednesday - 3:00am & 9:00pm

Mike Burstyn - Azimuth

Star of stage, screen and Yiddish theater Mike Burstyn talks about his theatrical journey, his feelings for Israel, and his first feature film, ‘Azimuth,’ about an Israeli and Egyptian soldier after the 6-Day War.

Thursday - 9:00pm
Friday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm

JEWISH STUDIES

Dimensions of the Daf

Talmud Study with Rabbi Mordechai Becher

Not Taken Literally

Rabbi Becher looks at the Jewish tradition's insistence that not every passage in the Torah and Talmud is to be taken literally.

Sunday - 9:00am Monday - 4:30am Tuesday - 9:30am

Say Cheese

For the holiday of Shavuot, where cheese and dairy are customarily enjoyed, a discussion of the way the Talmud deals with milk and cheese as illustrative of Jewish values.

Sunday - 9:30am Monday - 4:00am Tuesday - 9:00am

Jewish 101

A pluralistic introduction to the teachings, ideas and values of the Jewish Tradition with Rabbi Mark S. Golub z"l

Torah Response

A look at various midrash and at Abraham Joshua Heschel's notion that the Torah is the Jewish People's “response” to revelation.

Monday - 9:00am Thursday - 9:40am Saturday - 1:00am

At Sinai

A fascinating look at how various rabbinic midrash answer the question: What Really Happened At Sinai?

Thursday - 9:00am & 1:00pm

Torah Poetry

Is the Torah "poetry" according to the Jewish Tradition? And what is the "essence" of Torah?

Thursday - 1:40pm

FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT SERVICES

REFORM: CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE

Closed Captioned

6:00pm, 11:30pm & 2:00am

ORTHODOX: HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE

With Hebrew, transliteration and English subtitles

7:30pm & 10:30pm

SATURDAY MORNING SHABBAT SERVICES

REFORM: CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE

Closed Captioned

9:30am & 1:00pm

ORTHODOX: HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE

With Hebrew, transliteration and English subtitles

11:00am & 2:30pm

Vlada Barash, Special Projects Manager

JBS Jewish Broadcasting Service, a 501c3fulltime television channel

201-334-2510

Website: www.jbstv.org

Become a Lone Soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

Winter Session | Preparation Process: September-November 2024

Garin Tzabar aims to provide the best support system for young Jewish adults who wish to make aliyah to Israel and serve a meaningful service in the IDF as lone soldiers.

Tzofim Garin Tzabar fulfills its Zionist mission with the support of the IDF, Ministry of Aliyah and integration, the Jewish Agency of Israel, Masa Israel Journey and many more.

Garin Tzabar is the only program that provides a 360° support system for its participants before moving to Israel, during and after their army service including accommodation on a full board basis throughout the whole service, physical and mental preparation to the army, Hebrew studies, assistance with Israel civil services and IDF bureaucracy, integration to Israeli society, building a family within a host community in Israel (kibbutz/Ra’anana).

Preparation Process: September-November 2024

Absorption Period: December 2024-March 2025

Enlistment: March-April 2025

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Through October 2024

Florida’s constitution, written in 1838, protected its citizens’ freedom of religion. However, no constitution can protect people from individual bias, group bigotry or the arrogance of ignorant minds. As numbers of Jews increased in Florida, so did the discriminatory acts against them, especially during times of economic or social crises. The Hate Around Us takes the viewer through over 100 years of antisemitism in Florida through artifacts, photographs, and historical documents, culled from collection of The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU and various private lenders.

Jewish Museum of South Florida-FIU, 301 Washington Ave, Miami Beach

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Applications for Miami’s Cohort 12 (2024-2025) are now open! The cohort will comprise 20 students who demonstrate leadership skills and are dedicated to community service, interested in exploring their Jewish identity and their relationship to Israel.

Applicants must be Jewish teens living or going to school in Miami-Dade County and in 10th or 11th grade in September of the cohort year. Interviews will take place Summer 2024.

Full participation will be required in monthly Sunday workshops, three Shabbatonim (weekend retreats), a 10-day peer-to-peer exchange and hosting the Yerucham Diller Cohort in Miami, and a three-week Israel Summer Seminar in July.

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UCF Hillel Fresh Fest, August 15-16

Please help share the love and spread the word!

Hillel's Fresh Fest is scheduled for August 15-16, before school officially starts. This is an amazing opportunity for new students to connect with Jewish life on campus, make friends and have fun! There will also be a parent info session with UCF Hillel's Executive Director, Hunter Gold, to learn about how Hillel is here for your Knight.

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Monday, June 10, 7:30 PM

This Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) special presentation of the acclaimed film Treasure, which stars legendary screen actor Stephen Fry and eight-time Emmy nominee Lena Dunham, is a one-night-only event. Be among the first to see the film just two days after its Tribeca Festival premiere!

Directed by MJFF alum Julia von Heinz (Hanna's Journey) and based on the best-selling autobiographical novel, this heartwarming film tells the story of a father and daughter who reunite, reconcile and tour Poland in 1990, just after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Their journey takes them to Warsaw, Łódź, Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Ruth (Dunham) is eager to explore her family's history, while Edek (Fry), a charmingly stubborn Holocaust Survivor, tags along mainly to keep an eye on her. It's only when they visit the family's former home and meet the Polish family living there that Edek's attitude begins to change. This emotional and funny story of two New Yorkers navigating post-socialist Poland is a powerful example of how reconnecting with family and the past can be an unexpected treasure.

Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables

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On JBS: Israel Parade LIVE; Yitz Greenberg; Nova Exhibit; Jerusalem Day & Six-Day War

Watch JBS on Comcast X-1 Box Ch 1684, Atlantic Broadband 168, Hotwire Ch 269, DirecTV Ch 388, Blue Stream Ch 110, streamed on Roku under "educational", Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and jbstv.org. For a complete and timely schedule and other television providers, go to www.jbstv.org

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Israel Day on Fifth – LIVE

Instead of music or a spirit of celebration, this year the world’s largest annual expression of solidarity for Israel will emphasize security and cries to bring the hostages home.

Sunday (LIVE) - 12:00pm Monday - 12:00am

In the Spotlight with Abigail Pogrebin: Jewish Braille

Abby Pogrebin speaks with Batya Sperling-Milner, the Torah student who made Jewish history when she became the first blind student to chant her bat mitzvah parsha in an Orthodox shul using a braille Torah Scroll.

Monday - 8:00pm & 11:00pm Tuesday - 2:00am, 7:00am & 11:00am Wednesday - 5:00am Thursday - 2:00pm Friday - 10:00am, 4:00pm & 9:30pm Saturday - 7:00pm

Eye on Israel: The Nova Exhibit

Millet Ben-Haim, a survivor of the Hamas massacre at the Nova Music Festival, joins Shahar Azani to share her story and discuss the Nova Music Festival Exhibit that is currently traveling across the US showing the horrors of October 7th.

Monday - 8:30pm &11:30pm Tuesday - 2:30am, 7:30am & 11:30am Wednesday - 5:30am Thursday - 8:00pm & 11:00pm

Fighting Antisemitism – The ISGAP Hour

Israeli historian and author Benny Morris gives a lecture at the ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute entitled "A New Look at the 1948 War"

Tuesday - 7:00pm Wednesday - 2:00am & 10:00am Thursday - 4:30pm Friday - 4:00am & 7:00am

Jewish Insights with Justin Pines: Yitz Greenberg on Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement (Torah Giants Part 4)

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg joins Justin to discuss the life and legacy of Rabbi Israel Salanter (1810-1883), founder of the Mussar movement (Jewish character development). Together, Rabbis Greenberg and Pines created a translation of and commentary on Rabbi Salanter’s seminal work, Ohr Yisrael and Other Writings.

Tuesday - 8:00pm & 11:00pm Wednesday - 4:00am, 7:00am & 11:00am Thursday - 5:00am Friday - 9:00am, 2:00pm & 8:30pm Saturday - 8:30am & 4:00pm

Thinking Out Loud with Micah Halpern

Micah Halpern examines Hamas's use of not only physical attacks but psychological warfare to terrorize Israel.

Wednesday - 6:30pm & 11:30pm Thursday - 8:30am & 12:30pm Saturday - 5:30am & 5:30pm

Defending Israel with David Harris

Longtime Jewish frontline activist and JBS strategic analyst David Harris is joined in conversation with Shahar Azani discussing recent events.

Wednesday - 7:00pm & 11:00pm Thursday - 4:30am, 7:00am, 11:30am & 5:30pm Friday - 5:00am, 4:30pm & 10:00pm Saturday - 7:30pm

FIDF Live Briefing: Terrorism Law

FIDF CEO Steve Weil is joined by attorney Richard D. Heideman who discusses the history of terrorism focused at Israel, holding sponsors of terror legally accountable, the cases being brought in regards to the October 7th Hamas attacks, and more.

Thursday - 6:30pm & 10:00pm Friday - 1:00am, 5:30am, 8:30am & 12:30pm

NEWS & ANALYSIS

ILTV News and Daily News Updates

ILTV reports from Israel followed by JBS Daily News with Teisha Bader

Mondays-Thursdays at 6:00pm & Fridays at 5:00pm

Good Week Israel

Positive stories from Israel of heroism, unity and support

Mondays at 6:30pm

Insider

ILTV reports and interviews

Tuesdays at 6:30pm

On L’Chayim: Classic Conversations with Mark S. Golub z”l

Avi Perry

Former Israeli intelligence expert and author of 72 Virgins, a novel that draws on his experiences with terrorism, Avi Perry recounts his experience serving in the IDF during the Six-Day War of June 1967.

Monday - 9:00pm Tuesday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm

Yossi Klein Halevi###

American-Israeli journalist and author of Like Dreamers Yossi Klein Halevi discusses the history, impact and implications of Israel’s dramatic military victory that changed the map and Jewish self-identity.

Tuesday - 9:00pm Wednesday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm

6-Day War Roundtable

Abe Foxman, Thane Rosenbaum, Eric Yoffie and Betty Ehrenberg reflect on the Six-Day War's impact on Jewish life, and discuss the ongoing repercussions of Israel’s military victory.

Wednesday - 9:00pm
Thursday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm Saturday - 6:00pm

Danny Ayalon

Former Israeli U.S. Ambassador Danny Ayalon recalls what It was like to be a young boy in the harrowing days preceding the Six-Day War, and the euphoria that followed.

Thursday - 9:00pm
Friday - 12:00am, 3:00am & 3:00pm

JEWISH STUDIES

Dimensions of the Daf

Talmud Study with Rabbi Mordechai Becher

Our Historic Homeland

Rabbi Becher explores Talmudic evidence of how the Jewish people have had a connection to the Land of Israel for thousands of years.

Sunday - 9:00am Tuesday - 9:00am & 5:00pm

Jewish 101

A pluralistic introduction to the teachings, ideas and values of the Jewish Tradition with Rabbi Mark S. Golub z"l

Standing at Sinai

In anticipation of Shavuot, this lesson is a fascinating look at how various rabbinic midrash answer the question: What Really Happened At Sinai?

Monday - 9:00am Thursday - 9:00am Friday - 1:00am

FRIDAY EVENING SHABBAT SERVICES

REFORM: CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE

Closed Captioned

6:00pm, 11:30pm & 2:00am

ORTHODOX: HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE

With Hebrew, transliteration and English subtitles

7:30pm & 10:30pm

SATURDAY MORNING SHABBAT SERVICES

REFORM: CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE

Closed Captioned

9:30am & 1:00pm

ORTHODOX: HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE

With Hebrew, transliteration and English subtitles

11:00am & 2:30pm

Vlada Barash Special Projects Manager JBS Jewish Broadcasting Service, a 501c3fulltime television channel 201-334-2510 Website: www.jbstv.org

Thursday, June 13, 6:30 PM on Zoom

Designed for caring adults with LGBTQ+ young people in their lives, join Keshet for a training on the basics of building LGBTQ+ equality and belonging. Learn how you can be an advocate for your loved ones, even if you’ve never done advocacy before!

Presented by Tracey Labgold, Florida Education and Training Manager.

Zoom link will be sent before the program.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Monday, June 10, 7:30 PM

Celebrate Pride Month and Promote Mental Health

The Miami Jewish Film Festival, The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), the Greater Miami Jewish Federation’s Youth Mental Health Initiative BeWell Miami, Keshet and other partnering synagogues and organizations invite you to a screening of this incredible film, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A focused on LGBTQ+ youth mental health in the Jewish community.The Holy Closet features seven stories depicting life cycle moments of LGBTQ+ Jews, as they grapple with religion, relationships, family and more in their daily lives.

Cost: $10 for adults | $5 for teens under 18

The Hub at Temple Beth Am, 950 N. Kendall Drive, Pinecrest

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