Tuesday, April 21, 7pm

The Israel Committee, Brotherhood and Sisterhood invite you to the Social Hall to watch the movie Crescendo followed by a discussion led by Rabbi Marx.

Cost: $10 in advance; $15 at the door includes refreshments. Send payment by cash or check to the Beth Or office, to the attention of Ellen Wichterman. 

Crescendo is a narrative feature film, released in 2019 and directed by Dror Zahavi. Languages include Arabic, English (lots of English), German & Hebrew with English subtitles.

About the movie: 

"Israeli and Palestinian students putting their difference aside to play music together in a youth orchestra sounds like the dream of a naive idealist. While eliminating discord and achieving harmony are undeniably noble undertakings, is music really powerful enough to pierce through years of caustic political discourse and the real-life suffering experienced by both sides of the conflict?To answer that question, for over two decades, young musicians from Israel and Palestine have performed classical music together in conductor Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. The students who’ve taken part in his world-class ensemble grasp that they are reaching for something impossible, but they still believe it is important to try. It is the act of trying, itself, that lies at the center of CRESCENDO, a story about a similarly ambitious initiative played out in South Tyrol, Austria. Starring Peter Simonischek (Toni Erdmann, The Interpreter) and an impressive supporting cast of Israeli and Palestinian non-actors, this affecting film about forgiveness and reconciliation will strike a chord with audiences, young and old alike."