The Name My Mother Gave Me        השם שאמי נתנה לי

Saturday, March 13, 8:00 pm

Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, Jewish Federation Campus
272 South Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

A year-long leadership training program takes Ethiopian-born and Russian-born Israeli adolescents to the Jewish pockets of Ethiopia to rediscover their unique heritage. This journey forces the young Ethiopian Jews to confront memories and traditions that they left behind in the old country. The dramatic Ethiopian terrain has a tremendous impact on both the Ethiopians and the Russians, leading them to some deeply moving resolutions about themselves as individuals and as part of as a larger group.

The leadership training program (mechina) portrayed in “The Name My Mother Gave Me” was founded by Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives. Mechina programs all over Israel work with 18-year-olds from different sectors of society to prepare them for meaningful service in the Israel Defense Forces and Yemin Orde is the only one specifically designed for immigrant youth.

Israel, 2008, 60 minutes. Hebrew and Amharic with English subtitles

Director: Eli Tal-El
Our Special Guest Speaker: Albert Berdugo, an engineer living in Wyncote is a former student graduate
                                                   of Yemin Orde Youth Village high school who immigrated from Morocco
                                                   to Israel at age 12 through the "Youth Aliyah" program.
Tickets: $10 - General admission, $8 – Seniors. Ticket sales will end at 4:00 PM Saturday for this film.
Please join us for a dessert reception following the screening.


 

Students: Reserve your free tickets online. Make sure to pick them up an hour before the screening, otherwise the reservation will expire. On the day of the show, tickets will be available at the box office starting one hour before the screening.

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