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wants to marry his daughter Michal,
of a group or to advance a cause,"
played by an Israeli actress named
Cedar says. "It's a question now facing
Tinkerbell.
Israeli society, and I don't know the
Independent-minded Michal is
answer. Like the film itself, I have
instead attracted to Menachem, who is more questions than answers."
equally drawn to her but, in loyalty to
— Tom Tugend
Pini and the rabbi, rebuffs her.
Distraught over Michal's rejection
and convinced that the rabbi's futuris-
tic vision calls for
direct action, Pini plots
U-M
to blow up the Muslim
Professor
Dome of the Rock on
Ruth Behars
Jerusalem's Temple
documentary
Mount.
looks at
Israel's Shin Bet secu- Jewish life in
rity service is tipped off
Cuba.
and, fearful that an
attack on the shrine
would ignite the entire
Muslim world, works
feverishly to forestall
the explosion. The
secret servicemen think Menachem is
one of the plotters, but they can't foil
the plot without his help.
The realization that such a deranged ILike much art in progress, the 90-
attempt is conceivable — and the con- AI minute
documentary Adio Kerida
sequences if it succeeds — is what
("Goodbye, Beloved" in Spanish) took
gives the film's climax its special edge.
on a life of its own.
Adding to the film's poignancy is
Ruth Behar, producer and director,
Cedar's -personal background.
initially planned a "less ambitious
- He was born into a modern
project" to tell the story of Sephardic
Orthodox family in New York. In
Jews in Cuba. But it grew as she
1973, when he was 5, his geneticist
decided to incorporate other locales —
father and drama-psychotherapist
Miami, New York, Philadelphia —
mother made aliyah.
and her own story.
The family settled in the Bayit
It makes its Detroit premier 12:30
Vegan section of Jerusalem, dominated p.m. Sunday, May 5, in Commerce
at the time by the national religious
Township, followed by a discussion
adherents of Gush Emunim. When he with the filmmaker.
reached army age in 1986, Joseph
Behar was born in Cuba to an
served with an Israeli paratroop unit,
Ashkenazic mother and Sephardic
where he was one of only three reli-
father. Her family left Havana for
gious soldiers.
New York when Behar was a child.
After his discharge, he earned a bach- She attended Wesleyan University,
elor's degree at the Hebrew University
Princeton University for her master's
and a graduate degree from New York
degree and doctorate, and today teach-
University's film school.
es anthropology at the University of
When he started writing Time of
Michigan.
Favor in 1995, Cedar moved to a West
Woven among her academic and lit-
Bank settlement north of Ramallah.
erary accomplishments are dozens of
His friends in the settlement and in
trips to Cuba in search of memory,
the wider Orthodox community had
understanding and identity.
high hopes for his project.
The film incorporates words — in
"They told me that since I was the
English, Spanish, Hebrew, Ladino —
first observant Jew td make an Israeli
and music and dance — Jewish litur-
feature film, here was a chance to
gical music, Sephardic love songs,
show how great we really are," Cedar
tango., bolero, flamenco, salsa —• with
recalls.
its footage.
As the screenplay evolved, however,
Behar never hides behind the cam-
it gradually moved away from the ini-• era as observer or interviewer. She's an
tial idea of a vehicle for the national
active participant, sharing her literal
religious movement's viewpoint.
and metaphorical journey through "a
"I came to believe that the central
unique Diaspora."
question of the film was how much an
Scenes along Havana's malecon, sea-
individual must sacrifice for the good
side walk, and within the city's homes

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