July 16th Event

Shabbat service, Oneg Shabbat, Movie

Please join us on July 16, 2004, at 6:30, for an evening Shabbat service, Oneg Shabbat, and movie viewing.  Location is the community room of Aspen Village at Lowry, 150 Quebec St., Denver.  We will try to start the movie about 7:00 so that we can wrap up by 9:00.  There is plenty of parking in front of the building.  Contributions to share for the Oneg Shabbat are encouraged. 

The movie is  “The Quarrel,” and takes place in Montreal in 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to confront his past when he's asked to be the tenth in a minion. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn't seen since they quarreled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but had lost his faith long before. The two walk together, reminisce, and argue passionately about themselves, their actions, their lives, their religion, their old quarrel, and their friendship.

The plot so beautifully weaves together the threads of friendship lost and found, of camaraderie, hurt, loss, and theological disagreements that the end comes all too soon. Both men are the sole Holocaust survivors of their respective families, and their mutual consolation and joy is in constant tension with the diametrically opposite conclusions to which they arrived based on their common suffering. This, then, is their quarrel, and it picks up threads that have been running throughout their lives.

See a complete review at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thequarrelnrhinson_a0a7d7.htm

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