Temple Beth Am

PACHINKO – Min Jin Lee - In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.

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We’re Popping Up in Boynton Beach for the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival! Join our Education Director, Alissa Frankel, and Director of Jewish Life Activities, Danna Cohen, for a screening of Life Is Rich. Synopsis: A real-life comedy about Bonnie Rich, a filmmaker and Jewish mom on a mission to persuade her millennial daughters to raise her unborn grandchildren Jewish. While her daughters see little need for Jewish ritual that doesn’t involve food, Bonnie wants them to see Judaism as more than matzo ball soup. So she lures her daughters into Jewish sing-alongs and drags them to meet with rabbis. In the process, Bonnie finds herself contemplating her own connection with her faith and questions whether she will be successful in pulling the family closer to Judaism. We’ll meet for lunch at Too Jays at 12:30pm, then cross the street to the Boynton Cinemark for the movie! Everyone pays their own check and buys their own movie ticket at the box office. For more information or to let us know you are coming, contact Danna at dcohen@templebetham.com.

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Open to everyone over Bar/Bat Mitzvah age. We meet seasonally and perform at the Thanksgiving Interfaith Service and Sisterhood Shabbat. Don’t worry if you haven’t tried it before, come and enjoy! Contact Brett Tancer at btancer@templebetham.com to join.

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