PJA Goes to the Movies

Each year, the Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) organizes a group of Jewish, Arab, Muslim and other interested students to attend both the Boston Palestine Film Festival (October) and the Boston Jewish Film Festival (November) together. This year, the group will be attending the film He's My Girl at the Jewish Film Festival.

In He's My Girl, director Jean-Jacques Zilbermann checks in on Simon and Rosalie, the stars of his Man is a Woman (1998 Festival) ten years after their marriage breaks up. Simon's Ashkenazi mother accepts that he's gay, but doesn't realize that her pretty nurse is the Arab cross-dresser who steals her son's heart. In the midst of this farce, Rosalie returns to Paris to star in Fiddler on the Roof, with her new family in tow: a husband and the precocious son whom Simon hasn't seen in a decade. It's a bit of a tzimmes, of the tastiest sort.

This is a great opportunity to learn and discuss across religious, cultural and political spectrums. In the past, these film festivals have served as a way to start meaningful conversations and make new friends.

Questions? Interested in attending? Contact Eva (eroben@college). For tickets, RSVP to Eva by Sunday evening, 11/8.