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Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at 8:15 PM
Location: 92nd Street Y
92nd Street by Lexington
New York, NY

Join us for a screening of The Commandment Keepers, a documentary in progress that tells the dramatic story of the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, a highly observant African-American synagogue founded in 1919 by Rabbi Wentworth A. Matthew in Harlem, where it thrived for more than 90 years. The film presents a people caught between two often conflicting worlds, black and Jewish, who continue to hang on to their beliefs and identity: in their words, “by a thread”—and a grasp of steel. Panel discussion to follow screening.

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