You can watch the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival and SFMEW-sponsored interview with Matti Friedman by clicking here. (If the link doesn’t work, copy and paste the following into your browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgSe-tKsIQ0&feature=youtu.be). Send the link to friends and family – everyone should hear Matti’s astute analysis.
Feedback from the audience on September 17 was highly enthusiastic. Many felt Matti’s explanation of the election process, media bias, and influence of Mizrahi Jews in Israel, all in perspective of the necessary security and international political pressures, was the best talk they’ve heard in Santa Fe in years. His discussion and analysis from an Israeli journalist and New York Times opinion columnist perspective opened their eyes to the robustness of democracy in Israel, and the differences in the concepts of “right” and “left” between the US and Israel – differences often glossed over or misconstrued by American and European reporters.
Kudos to Marcia Torobin and the SFJFF for organizing this activity, and thanks for inviting SFMEW to co-sponsor. Many thanks also to Ron Duncan-Hart and Gloria Abella-Ballen of GaonWeb for recording the program.
Don’t miss SFJFF’s next event, Golda’s Balcony. October 27, 4:00 pm, The Screen.
Buy your tickets here.
About the film:
Our Tenth Season opens with TOVAH FELDSHUH recreating her award-winning performance as Golda Meir (and, stunningly, 43 other characters) in GOLDA’S BALCONY, THE FILM (2019)…The rise of Golda Meir from Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most thrilling and amazing stories of the 20th Century. In GOLDA’S BALCONY, THE FILM (2019), her life has been transformed into a cinematic event of overwhelming power and inspirational triumph.
Santa Fe Middle East Watch wishes you, your family, friends and the whole community L’Shanah Tovah U’Metukah. 
The next Temple Beth Shalom presentation from its “Israel – A Cultural Perspective” series will be “Kol B’Seder in Concert” on October 20 at 4:00 p.m., 205 E. Barcelona Rd. Free and open to the public. More information here, or at https://www.sftbs.org/ .
SFMEW is a beneficiary organization of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico.