Gefilte Flicks

Movie Short and Discussion Join in a lively discussion about family heritage and traditions and changes between the generations.  We will watch and discuss the short movie ‘Gefilte Fish’.  Come with your stories of family celebrations and continuity.  Part instructional, part allegorical, the short movie Gefilte Fish is a chronicle of Jewish-American life. Filmmaker Karen Silverstein captures three generations of women talking about, and demonstrating how they make gefilte fish. In this short documentary, the recipes and traditions are explained by women of different generations, who, despite varying degrees of technology and tradition, see family and heritage as central to their lives.

Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen serves as Rabbi for Lifelong Education at Temple Emanuel in Cherry Hill. Rabbi Cohen teaches, develops curriculum and programming, and oversees the pre-school, religious school, family education and adult education.  She has written teacher manuals for Behrman House publishing, is the author of five books and winner of a National Jewish Book Award.