Torn Film Screening & Discussion

Come join us for an evening of conversation, community and learning. We are so excited to present to you Torn: The Israel–Palestine Poster War on New York City Streets. We have to opportunity to feature film participants Alana Zeitchick (Israeli-American Advocate and Hostage Family Member), Julia Simon (childhood friend of Omer Neutra) and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna (Executive Director of the Bronfman Center and Interviewee) in this event and hear from them after the screening. This event created in partnership with Moishe House of Williamsburg, Hells Kitchen, Harlem, Upper East Side, Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn NAIM. This is an event specifically open to young adults ages 20-40 years old.

After Hamas’s October 7 attacks and Israel’s war in Gaza, New York erupts into a poster war over the kidnapped. TORN captures the symbolic battle for public space — where strangers rip, defend, and rage in the streets, and empathy is the first thing to go. As the ceasefire in Israel-Gaza is now in effect and our 20 living hostages have returned from captivity this evening will focus on where we go from here.

How do we ask difficult questions and how do we have difficult conversations? These posters explore questions about freedom of speech in America and how do we continue to ask those questions as we begin again.

Please join us before the screening at 6pm for some drinks, light snacks and to mix and mingle. The film will start promptly at 7pm with a talkback following.