Film
BINA Cultural Foundation & The Museum of Tolerance New York Present 400 Miles of Freedom 
02/23/2012 at 7:00PM
Museum of Tolerance New York - New York
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In 1984, the Beta Israel, a secluded 2,500-year-old community of observant Jews in the northern Ethiopian mountains, fled a dictatorship and began a secret and dangerous journey of escape.  Co-director Avishai Mekonen, then a 10-year-old boy, was among them.  400 MILES TO FREEDOM follows his story as he breaks the 20 year silence around the brutal kidnapping he endured as a child in Sudan during the escape, and uses the film as a platform to explore issues of immigration and racial diversity in Judaism.
 
Followed by a discussion with Director Avishai Yeganyahu Mekonen.
 
 
Venue
Museum of Tolerance New York
226 East 42nd Street
10017
New York
NY
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