Jewish Film Festival Series

Ahead of Time, The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber - Monday, May 5 @7 pm

With her love of adventure and
fearlessness, Ruth Gruber defied tradition from the moment she became the
world’s youngest PhD at the age of 20 in 1931. Ahead of Time tells the
remarkable journey of 96 year-old Gruber. 
Gruber continued to make history throughout her trail-blazing career by
becoming the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935 and escorting
1000 Holocaust refugees from Naples to New York in a secret war-timemission in 1944. She covered the
heart wrenching ordeal of the refugees aboard the ship Exodus 1947 with
photographs that helped change the world.

Additional Film:

Mamadrama, The Jewish Mother in Cinema - Monday - June 2 @ 7 pm

$10 per film at the door