Award Winning Film: My So-Called Enemy

 The documentary film "My So-Called Enemy" has won a half dozen national awards for documentary filmmaking. Its Director Lisa Gossels will be present. 

In July 2002, 22 Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls came to the U.S. to participate in a women's leadership program called Building Bridges for Peace.  "My So Called Enemy" is a coming of age story about six of the program participants, three Palestinians and three Israelis, and how they reconcile their transformative experience in the program with the realities of life back home in the Middle East over the next 7 years.  

 The women reach out, become friends, and significantly, though tenuously, bridge the chasm between them even as bombs and rockets explode. These young women, each in her own way, choose futures which may light paths out of an intractable conflict.  According to film director Lisa Gossels who has followed them on their journey since 2002, " You will be glad you met them".

This 90 minute documentary will be followed by an 45 minute panel discussion and audience Q&A with the film' director, Lisa Gossels, Temple Beth Shalom's  Rabbi Jay Perlman, Mohamed Lazzouni from the Islamic Center of Boston, and Skip Windsor, Rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Needham. Lisa Gossels will also update the audience on the experiences of the six women since the filming ended in 2009.

 Afterwards there will be refreshments and a chance to chat with the members of the panel. 

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