Selichot Service

Please join us for our Selichot Service where we have a short service to usher in the High Holidays and change our mantle covers.

SELICHOT SERVICES will be led by Rabbi Linda Joseph and our cantorial soloist Beth Rubens, who will be accompanied by Nick McCagg.

THE NARROW BRIDGE is a searching journey into the souls of four people who, after searing pain, develop strengths they never had before. We watch with wonder as Bushra, Rami, Meytal and Bassam, women and men who lost a child or parent in a violent conflict, transform their grief into a bridge for reconciliation. The film follows their paths from devastating trauma to courageous activism. But their stories are not just personal. They all belong to a controversial grassroots movement of broken-hearted people ‘Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families’ who stand side-by-side to end the violence and build a future based on dignity and equality. Despite fierce political and family opposition, they refuse to give up. Bushra, Rami, Meytal and Bassam all wish they could turn back time to before tragedy struck, but they would never change who they have become. Charting a journey of hope amidst pain, THE NARROW BRIDGE lights a way to personal and social change.

We will be joined by Director ESTHER TAKAC. Esther has been consulting as a child and adult trauma psychologist with Palestinians and Israelis in a Jerusalem hospital regularly over the last nine years, and working on the film since 2017. She met and filmed with Meytal, Bassam, Rami and Bushra many times, developing a collaborative and trusting relationship with them, and with the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Organization.