• Scholars in Session: Jews and Drag-An American Cultural History 1900-2020

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield

    Golan Moskowitz, 2024-2025 University of Michigan Frankel Institute Fellow, explores the Jewish American cultural history of the gender-transcendent performance art of drag, from early twentieth-century Yiddish vaudeville through contemporary Emmy-winning reality television. Professor Moskowitz will discuss how marginalized Jewish artists, writers, and performers creatively process legacies of embodied otherness, focusing especially on Jewish American descendants ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: The Ring

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Drama / Israel, Hungary / Hebrew and Hungarian with English subtitles / 120 minutes Arnon Noble, a devout man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust survivor, embarks on a journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to seek a legendary ring that once saved her life. Written by and starring Ophir Award-winning ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Midas Man

    The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,

    Biopic / UK / English / 112 minutes Witness the rise of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who catapulted The Beatles from a scrappy Liverpool band into global rock legends. The film details Epstein’s belief in The Beatles and the sacrifices he made to help them achieve fame. Midas Man features a star-making turn by ...