MAY 2 • 2024 | 17
DETROIT
JEWISH
FILM
FESTIVAL
May 2-14, 2024
FILM FESTIVAL 2024 SPOTLIGHT FILMS
Monday, May 13, 7 p.m. /
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Tickets $18
Tuesday, May 14, 7 p.m. /
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Tickets $18
TheJDetroit.org/FilmFestival /
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248-609-3303
An enchanting Israeli musical rom-com starring Lee Biran
and Eliana Tidhar.
The story of Operation Solomon, Israel’s airlift of 15,000
Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Talkback with Jane F. Sherman.
This program is proudly supported by the Israel Engagement Fund: A JCC Association
of North America Program Accelerator and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.
Produced with support from Burton A. Zipser and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation
Live concert by Israeli-Ethiopian singer/songwriter OSHI
following each film!
Lenore Marwil
Detroit Jewish
Film Festival
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OUR STORY
EXODUS 91
In the wake of the unprecedented
antisemitism, threats, harassment,
intimidation and discrimination
against Jewish students at U-M,
ZOA-Michigan has placed a
billboard on US-23 demanding the
University of Michigan take swift
action to protect its Jewish students.
“The university has failed to
respond to concerned students,
parents and alumni who have
contacted U-M urging that it
take action to stop violations of
their own code of conduct and
infractions of the law. We put up
the billboard in hopes of getting
their attention,
” said ZOA-MI
President Sheldon Freilich. “It’s
time for enforcement — there
must be serious consequences for
those breaking the law and inciting
antisemitism.
”
Since Oct. 7, ZOA-Michigan
has received many complaints
from U-M students who fear for
their safety. In the weeks leading
up to finals and graduation, the
antisemitic hostilities are reaching
a dangerous pitch. The situation is
exacerbated by the multiple pro-
Hamas demonstrations on campus
and in campus buildings, with their
calls for the end of Israel and the
genocide of Jews, often punctuated
by Nazi symbols and slogans, the
ZOA related.
Jewish U-M students have
become frequent targets of openly
expressed hatred — in classrooms,
dormitories, cafeterias, libraries
and on campus grounds.
Students feel abandoned by the
regents and campus administration
for tolerating disruptive hate-filled
protests aimed at Jews.
In the last two months alone,
two federal civil rights complaints
were filed against U-M for failing
to safeguard Jewish students.
New ZOA-Michigan
Billboard Targets
Antisemitism at U-M