Film Screening “Fill the Void” Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM

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Film Screening, “Fill the Void”

Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Twilight Auditorium

Followed by a discussion with Prof. Robert Schine and Rabbi Ira Schiffer

A devout 18 year-old is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister.  Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv’s ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi’s word are absolute.

For more information, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219514/

Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies (Aquinnah Fund) and Hillel