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Event: Screening of "400 Miles to Freedom," A Documentary Film About Jewish Identity by Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen and Shari Rothfarb Mekonen
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 7pm
Place: Northeastern University, 135 Shillman Hall, 115 Forsyth Street, Boston, MA
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Northeastern University Departments of African-American Studies, Art & Design, and Philosophy & Religion, Northeastern Hillel, and Students for Israel at Northeastern.
Related:
Filmmaker Avishai Mekonen
YouTube page of Mekonen Productions
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Aliza is a 1st-generation Dominican-American Latina Orthodox Jewish convert (“Jewminicana") who later discovered she had maternal Sephardic Jewish Turkish ancestry. She is also a writer, blogger, educator & speaker. This blog chronicles her thoughts on being Hispanic & Jewish, focusing on identity, Judaism, Jews of colors, Latinos, diversity, race, ethnicity, conversion to Judaism, culture, multiculturalism, illness, disability, books, films, news & more….