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Monday, March 3

What can you say about a film that features Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Wendy Wasserstein, Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker and Molly Picon-six of the greatest female comic performers of the last century? In one word: Hilarious! Hosted by four of today's funniest stand-up comediennes (filmed noshing in Katz's New York Deli), we travel from the age of Silent Films to the Ziegfield Follies and ultimately to television's Saturday Night Live, learning why there is truth in the old adage: "death is easy…comedy is hard."

This film is in memory of Irwin Horowitz. Co-sponsor: Jewish Community Federation's Women's Philanthropy Division.

This touching romantic comedy begins with two French thirty-somethings-Ismaël and Clara-who are very much in love. The happy couple is able to ignore the differences of their religious backgrounds until Clara becomes pregnant. Then, Ismael wonders whether his Muslim family will accept the new circumstances, and Clara learns that her Jewish parents define an interfaith marriage as one between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. Bad Faith tenderly captures what happens when the outside world intrudes upon true love. Adult content.

Co-sponsor: Jewish Community Federation's Building Jewish Bridges.

Winner of six Israel Academy Awards (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Script), this film is a definite crowd pleaser. Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in Tiberias, dreams about becoming a published author. When she meets Oded, a well-established novelist, he leads her to believe that he will help her achieve her ambition. However, he has other plans for her literary talents.

Underwritten by Jo-Ann and Arnold Jacobson, M.D.