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Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Film Screening, “Fill the Void”

Followed by a discussion with Rabbi Ira Schiffer and Prof. Robert Schine

 A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.  For more information, see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2219514/

Twilight Auditorium

50 Franklin St.

Middlebury, VT 05753

Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies (Aquinnah Fund) and Hillel