BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The J - Detroit - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thejdetroit.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The J - Detroit REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T222005Z UID:10001035-1746126000-1746133200@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Colleyville DESCRIPTION:Documentary / USA / English / 80 minutes\nOn January 15\, 2022\, an ordinary Shabbat morning at Congregation Beth Israel\nin Colleyville\, Texas\, turned into a harrowing hostage crisis involving Rabbi\nCharlie Cytron-Walker and three others. Colleyville is a gripping real-life\ndrama showcasing the resilience of the hostages and community while\nhighlighting the complexities of antisemitism._\n _\nTalk-back with Ophir award-winning filmmaker Dani Menkin and Rabbi Charlie\nCytron-Walker following the screening\, moderated by Rabbi Paul Yedwab\, Temple\nIsrael. \nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsors: ADL Michigan; Hadassah Greater Detroit Region; Temple Israel \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11178 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/colleyville/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,Antisemitism,College Students,Food Available ($),Older Adults,Presentation ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/25.FF_.JLive_.Colleyville-v2-KKmArM.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250504T180000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250503T222007Z UID:10001037-1746374400-1746381600@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Matchmaking 2 DESCRIPTION:Romantic Comedy / Israel / Hebrew with English Subtitles / 110 minutes\nIsrael’s biggest box office hit of the year\, Matchmaking 2 \, is the feel-\ngood\, long-awaited sequel to the beloved 2022 rom-com starring some of\nIsrael’s brightest young talents. This tender\, side-splitting celebration of\nclashing traditions and big-hearted characters follows a love-struck bachelor\nin a Jerusalem yeshiva\, pressured to find his soulmate before it’s too late. \nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsors: Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood; Jewish Senior Life of\nMetropolitan Detroit\nNational Council of Jewish Women\, Michigan; The Women of Temple Israel; The\nJ’s Opening the Doors \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11183 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/matchmaking-2/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,College Students,Disability & Inclusion,Food Available ($),Grandparents,Israel,Older Adults,Singles & Dating ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.Matchmaker-bSSbEp.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250505T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250505T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T223506Z UID:10001038-1746471600-1746478800@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: For the Living DESCRIPTION:Documentary / USA /English / 117 minutes\nIn 1945\, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski made a 60-mile\njourney by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Krakow in search of his family.\nDecades later\, 250 cyclists retrace his path in a mission called Ride for the\nLiving. This powerful documentary draws parallels between his experience and\nthe cyclists’ journey to spark a conversation about the struggle between\ndehumanization and empathy.\nTalk-back with co-director Tim Roper and producer Lisa Effress following the\nscreening.\nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsor: Team Alex; Jewish Federation of Detroit; Temple Israel\nBrotherhood; The Zekelman Holocaust Center; JRec \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11185 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/for-the-living/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Food Available ($),Holocaust,Older Adults,Parents,Sports & Fitness,Young Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.FortheLiving-ev1Zhs.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250506T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250506T225008Z UID:10001039-1746558000-1746565200@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Theater Kid featuring Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Douglas Sills DESCRIPTION:Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Tony Award-nominee\nDouglas Sills (Broadway’s The Scarlet Pimpernel and HBO’s The Gilded Age)\nA coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our\ntime\, Jeffrey Seller\, one of the masterminds behind the Tony Award-winning\nmusicals Rent\, Avenue Q\, In the Heights \, and Hamilton. Theater Kid is a\ngripping memoir about chasing a dream against many odds and finding acceptance\nand community. Jeffrey is a Suburban Detroit native and a proud graduate of\nthe University of Michigan.\n“I loved reading the wonderful\, inspiring adventures of Jeffrey Seller’s life\nand career. If you feel like an outsider from the poorest part of town\, take\nheart\, your dreams can come true.”—Bernadette Peters \n\nSponsors: BELFOR USA Group; Hebrew Free Loan Detroit; Tamarack Camps; West\nBloomfield Township Public Library; Henry & Delia Meyers Library; Jewish\nFederation of Detroit\, Affinities Pride; The Berman; The Detroit Jewish Book\nFair \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11186 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/theater-kid-featuring-tony-award-winner-jeffrey-seller/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,College Students,Older Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.TheaterKid-v3-rPxsNt.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T180000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T230507Z UID:10001042-1746720000-1746727200@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: The Ring DESCRIPTION:Drama / Israel\, Hungary / Hebrew and Hungarian with English subtitles / 120\nminutes\nArnon Noble\, a devout man with a strong bond to his mother\, a Holocaust\nsurvivor\, embarks on a journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to seek\na legendary ring that once saved her life. Written by and starring Ophir\nAward-winning actor and beloved stand-up comedian Adir Miller\, The Ring is\nbased on his own family’s story of Holocaust survival. \nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsors: CHAIM-Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Michigan;\nThe Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11189 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/the-ring/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,Aging,College Students,Hebrew and Yiddish,Holocaust,Israel,LGBTQI,Older Adults,Parenting,Social Justice ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.TheRing-G3N8aC.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T204500 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250417T210524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T222011Z UID:10001053-1746725400-1746737100@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Women of The J : Bad Shabbos DESCRIPTION:A Shabbat so good\, we’re doing it Thursday!\nCome for the wine\, stay for the whodunit at ‘Bad Shabbos’ and bring an\nalibi. \nBegin your night with a strolling Shabbat-themed dinner in the Janice Charach\nGallery\, then make your way to the Berman Theater where the Jewish Film\nFestival will show Bad Shabbos \, a dark comedy starring Kyra Sedgwick.\nWatch as a simple Shabbat dinner spirals into a delightful disaster\, filled\nwith unexpected twists and irreverent laughs. Don’t forget to bring an alibi. \nDate: Thursday\, May 8 \n5:30 PM – Strolling Shabbat Dinner & Wine in the Janice Charach Gallery\n7:00 PM – Film "Bad Shabbos" in The Berman Theater \nCo Chairs: Dana Jacob\, Michal Nodel\, Sophia Roslin \nCost : $52\nRSVP by May 1. \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11374 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/women-of-the-j-bad-shabbos/ LOCATION:The J – Detroit 6600 West Maple Road\, West Bloomfield Township CATEGORIES:Adults,Cocktails and Drinks,College Students,Food Provided,Kosher Food,Women,Young Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Women_of_The_J_Bad_Shabbos-6gXQfn.png ORGANIZER;CN="The J":MAILTO:info@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250508T213000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T230507Z UID:10001043-1746730800-1746739800@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Bad Shabbos with Comedy Short Sauna Dreams DESCRIPTION:Comedy / USA / English / 84 minutes\nDavid and his fiancée Meg attend a Shabbat dinner at his mother’s house to\nintroduce her Catholic parents to his Jewish family. When a turn of events\nleads to a frantic cover-up\, the evening spirals into darkly comedic chaos.\nUproariously funny with a cast featuring Emmy-winner Kyra Sedgwick\, Method\nMan\, and David Paymer\, Bad Shabbos is filled with twists\, turns\, and laughs\nyou won’t see coming!\nTalkback with Rabbi Blair Nosanwisch\, Adat Shalom Synagogue\, and Rabbi\nYonatan Dahlen\, Congregation Shaarey Zedek. \nSponsor: B’nai B’rith Great Lakes Region; ORT America Michigan Region;\nWomen of the J; Jlive \nBefore the feature short film: Sauna Dreams\nComedy Short / USA / English / 18 minutes\nThis mockumentary follows Dave Roffman\, a schlub from New York\, on his quest\nto win the 2023 World Sauna Championships in Detroit. Watch for a brief\nappearance by local actor David Shevrin\, who shows up in a towel\, though his\nlines were left on the cutting room floor. \nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsor: The Schvitz \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11190 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/bad-shabbos-with-comedy-short-sauna-dreams/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,College Students,Grandparents,Interfaith,Older Adults,Parents,Young Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.BadShabbos-HFeaQA.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250511T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250511T180000 DTSTAMP:20260429T035714 CREATED:20250325T200541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T230505Z UID:10001044-1746979200-1746986400@thejdetroit.org SUMMARY:Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man DESCRIPTION:Biopic / UK / English / 112 minutes\nWitness the rise of Brian Epstein\, the visionary manager who catapulted The\nBeatles from a scrappy Liverpool band into global rock legends. The film\ndetails Epstein’s belief in The Beatles and the sacrifices he made to help\nthem achieve fame. Midas Man features a star-making turn by Jacob Fortune-\nLloyd (The Queen’s Gambit)\, alongside dynamic performances by Emily Watson\,\nJay Leno\, and Eddie Izzard. \nPresented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival\nSponsors: Burton A. Zipser & Sandra D. Zipser Foundation and Hampton Inn\nSouthfield/West Bloomfield; Home 2 Suites West Bloomfield; The Berman \nView event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/11191 URL:https://thejdetroit.org/event/midas-man/ LOCATION:The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd\, CATEGORIES:Adults,College Students,History,LGBTQI,Music,Older Adults ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thejdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/25.FF_.JLive_.MidasMan-9sHIFX.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival":MAILTO:filmfestival@jccdet.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR