Current & Upcoming
12/25 Chinese Food & Films
Dec 25, 2022 12:00PM—4:00PM
Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine - 1342 Congress St. Portland, ME 04102
Cost Free to attend // $5 per person for Food
If your tradition on December 25th includes Chinese food and a movie – or if you would like it to – come join us at the JCA for the afternoon! We’ll have a delicious Chinese buffet lunch catered by Maine Jewish Museum Director Dawn LaRochelle (who was a restaurateur and caterer in Western Massachusetts for…
View MoreSHARED LEGACIES – The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance
Feb 04, 2022 12:00PM—Feb 06, 2022 11:30PM
Cost Free
A free documentary film streaming presented in partnership with the Maine Jewish Film Festival – In honor of Black History Month Friday, Feb. 4th | 12PM, Noon – Sunday, Feb. 6th | 12AM, Midnight Through interviews and archival footage, Shared Legacies tells the often forgotten story of the coalition and friendship between the Jewish and…
View MoreMJFF Zoom Discussion with Filmmaker Yair Lev
Apr 06, 2021 2:00PM—3:00PM
Cost Free
MJFF Special Weekend Edition Free Yom Hashoah Film Streaming & Discussion (in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day) April 4 – 7 You Only Die Twice When Israeli director Yair Lev’s mother inherits a house from a distant relative, she discovers that her father died ‘twice’ – as Ernst Bechinsky in Palestine and Ernst Bechinsky…
View MoreMJFF Special Weekend Edition for Yom Hashoah – Films & Discussion
Apr 04, 2021—Apr 07, 2021
Cost Free
MJFF Special Weekend Edition YOM HASHOAH FILMS, DISCUSSION & OBSERVANCE – Holocaust Remembrance Day Presented by the Maine Jewish Film Festival and the JCA Free film streaming Sunday, April 4th at 9 am – Weds., April 7th at midnight Euphoria of Being When choreographer Reka Szabo reads a memoir by dancer Eva Fahidi,…
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