SCREENING OF SISTER ROSE'S PASSION

At  Edmond J. Safra Hall at  the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.  36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280. Sunday, October 16 at 2:30 p.m. Sister Rose Thering To Discuss Her Life Spent Fighting Anti-Semitism 

Photos from L to R: #1. Sister Rose Thering gestures during an interview in her Whippany, N.J., home. A Dominican nun, she is the subject of ‘Sister Rose's Passion,’ an Oscar-nominated documentary film about her lifelong work fighting anti-Semitism and promoting Holocaust remembrance. #2. Sister Rose Thering, years ago.

Winner of the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival's Best Documentary Short Award and Nominee for the 2005 Best Documentary Academy Award, Sister Rose's Passion tells the story of Sister Rose Thering, a Catholic nun who has spent her life fighting anti-Semitism and promoting Holocaust remembrance and education. The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will host a screening of this compelling film that follows the indefatigable woman who helped rebuild bridges between Christians and Jews by challenging the Roman Catholic Church and its centuries-old charge that Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus Christ.

Photo: Oren Jacoby Producer and Director of Sister Rose's Passion.

An audience Q & A with Sister Rose Thering, Sister Mary Boys, and director Oren Jacoby will follow the screening. Sister Rose Thering, an American Dominican nun, is a professor emeritus of secondary education at Seton Hall University in South Orange, where she helped establish the school's graduate department of Jewish-Christian studies in the early 1970s. Thering was instrumental in creating the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel in 1974 and helped design New Jersey's state-mandated Holocaust education curriculum.  Sister Mary Boys is the Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.

She also serves as an adjunct faculty member of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Teachers College, Columbia University. Boys has written or edited a number of books on the subject of Jewish-Christian relations. Oren Jacoby is the Producer and Director of Sister Rose's Passion. He has been making award-winning films since 1980.  His film credits include The Topdog Diaries (PBS), The Shakespeare Sessions (PBS), The Beatles Revolution (ABC, VH-1) among many others. Jacoby founded Storyville Films in 1992. Cost: Free with suggested donation.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, located at 36 Battery Place in Battery Park City, uses a core exhibition of more than 2,000 historic photographs, 800 historical and cultural artifacts, and 24 original documentary films to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the broad tapestry of Jewish life over the past century-before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Museum develops special exhibitions and public programs to examine more closely specific areas of Jewish history and heritage.  The Robert M. Morgenthau Wing contains the state-of-the-art Edmond J. Safra Hall, Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stones, catering hall, classrooms, and expanded gallery space for special exhibitions. The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The Museum is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan. For more information, visit www.mjhnyc.org or call (646) 437-4200