• Detroit Jewish Film Festival: The Ancient Law-Silent Film with Live Klezmer Music

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

    Silent Film/Drama / Germany / German with English subtitles / 128 minutes This beautifully restored 1923 silent masterpiece tells the poignant story of a rabbi’s son who leaves his Polish shtetl to pursue acting in Vienna. The film is accompanied by a live musical score composed and performed by klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Matchmaking 2

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

    Romantic Comedy / Israel / Hebrew with English Subtitles / 110 minutes Israel’s biggest box office hit of the year, Matchmaking 2 , is the feel- good, long-awaited sequel to the beloved 2022 rom-com starring some of Israel’s brightest young talents. This tender, side-splitting celebration of clashing traditions and big-hearted characters follows a love-struck bachelor ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: For the Living

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

    Documentary / USA /English / 117 minutes In 1945, 10-year-old Holocaust survivor Marcel Zielinski made a 60-mile journey by foot from Auschwitz-Birkenau to Krakow in search of his family. Decades later, 250 cyclists retrace his path in a mission called Ride for the Living. This powerful documentary draws parallels between his experience and the cyclists’ ...

  • JGrand: Bubbies, Zaydies, and Grandbabies! April -June 2025

    The J - Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield Township

    The popular series Bubbies, Zaydies, and Grandbabies is ready for our next series! At Bubbies, Zaydies and Grandbabies, grandparents and grandkids play and create art together, sing songs, enjoy an interactive story time, and meet new friends. This series is taught by former West Bloomfield early elementary teacher, Sarah Sherman. **_Recommended for children ages 2 ...

  • Theater Kid featuring Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Douglas Sills

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

    Tony Award-winner Jeffrey Seller in conversation with Tony Award-nominee Douglas Sills (Broadway's The Scarlet Pimpernel and HBO's The Gilded Age) A coming-of-age tale from one of the most successful American producers of our time, Jeffrey Seller, one of the masterminds behind the Tony Award-winning musicals Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights , and Hamilton. _Theater ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Shari & Lamb Chop – Dementia Friendly Showing

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

    Documentary / USA / English / 92 minutes Before Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, there was Shari Lewis and her beloved puppets including Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, and Charlie Horse. This heartwarming bio-doc blends archival footage, TV clips, and interviews, celebrating Shari Lewis’s visionary spirit and offering a nostalgic journey that reconnects us with our ...

  • Detroit Jewish Film Festival: Shari & Lamb Chop

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

    Documentary / USA / English / 92 minutes Before Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street, there was Shari Lewis and her beloved puppets including Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, and Charlie Horse. This heartwarming bio-doc blends archival footage, TV clips, and interviews, celebrating Shari Lewis’s visionary spirit and offering a nostalgic journey that reconnects us with our ...

  • The Hearts Prayer, Exploring The Book Of Psalms with Rabbi Michele Faudem

    THE HEARTS PRAYER, EXPLORING THE BOOK OF PSALMS with Rabbi Michele Faudem ZOOM THURSDAYS, 10:45 – 11:45 AM Jan. 23, 30; Feb. 6, 13; Mar. 6, 13, 20, 27; Apr. 3, 24; May 1, 8  Through the ages, Psalms have played a tremendous role in the lives of the Jewish people. It is part ...

  • 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 ...

  • Women of The J : Bad Shabbos

    The J - Detroit 6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield Township

    A Shabbat so good, we're doing it Thursday! Come for the wine, stay for the whodunit at 'Bad Shabbos' and bring an alibi. Begin your night with a strolling Shabbat-themed dinner in the Janice Charach Gallery, then make your way to the Berman Theater where the Jewish Film Festival will show Bad Shabbos , a ...