Contact: Scott Benarde
Phone: 561-712-5231
Email: [email protected]
Lore & Eric F. Ross JCC, 8500 Jog Road, Boynton Beach, FL 33472, (561) 740-9000
JCC North, 4803 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418, (561) 689-7700
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: Feb. 3, 2010
JCC presents program, photo exhibit on WWII Jewish Partisans
BOYNTON BEACH — The JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches in partnership with Peggy Brown presents “Pictures of Resistance: The Photography of Jewish Partisan Faye Schulman.
The “Pictures of Resistance” exhibit is open to the public for free viewings at
2 p.m. on Tues. Feb. 23, March 2, and March 9, or by appointment.
The exhibit opening program features Mitch Braff, director of the Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation. Braff, along with surviving partisans, will lead a discussion about the partisan experience during WWII, and also discuss and show clips from the 2009 film “Defiance,” which is based on the real-life actions of the partisan Bielski brothers in Belarus.
The opening program is at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 at Temple Emanu-el, 190 N. County Rd. Palm Beach. Admission is free for JCC members, Friends of the J members, Palm Beach Jewish Film Society members, and Temple Emanu-El members, and $10 for the general public.
For more information call Lisa Blumberg at 561-712-5209.
The mission of the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Palm Beaches is to create a strong Jewish community by providing high quality programs close to where people live that connect people to Jewish life.
The JCC is an affiliated agency of the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County.
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