Join us for the Karen and Pace Robinson Lecture Series on Modern Israel which will be a screening of the film The Women's Balcony and discussion led by Professor Oded Nir, Associate Professor of Hebrew at Queens College.

This screening and discussion will be held in person at the University of Tennessee Student Center. The film screening will begin at 5:15 pm and will include a dinner which will open at 5 pm. Attendence requires an RSVP to [email protected]. The lecture will begin at 7 pm and is free and open to the public. The lecture will also be available to view online.

Film: An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem. When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a savior after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control. This tests the women’s friendships and creates an almost Lysistrata-type rift between the community’s women and men.