By Har Sinai Temple
COEN BROTHER’S FILM SCREENING, DISCUSSION AND DINNER AT HAR SINAI
Three Generations of Rabbis and two generations of Cantors examine "A Serious Man"
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP – Three generations of rabbis and two generations of
cantors will lead an evening of film, dinner and discussion around Joel and Ethan
Coen’s Oscar-nominated " A Serious Man" on April 10 at Har Sinai Temple.
Set in 1970, the black comedy stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Midwestern
university professor whose wife is leaving him, whose brother is sleeping on his
couch and whose two children are both problems. Facing a world of problems,
he seeks advice from three rabbis. Both the film and its original screenplay were
nominated for Oscars this year and received numerous nominations from film
boards and critics’ associations across the country, including a Golden Globe
nomination for Stuhlbarg. The Coen brothers have acknowledged their film’s
autobiographical elements drawn from their Jewish upbringing.
Rabbis Stuart Pollack, current rabbi at Har Sinai; Bernard Perelmuter, rabbi
at Har Sinai’s former Trenton location 30 years ago, and Cari Bricklin, assistant at
West Windsor Township’s Beth Chaim, will join Cantors Emily Pincus of Har Sinai
and Marshall Glatzer, Har Sinai’s Cantor Emeritus, in a panel discussion of the
film’s Judaism at the temple located at 2421 Pennington Road.
Reservations are required by April 1 for the light dinner at 5:30 p.m. that
costs $10 per person. There is no charge for the film that starts at 6:15 p.m. and
the panel discussion that follows. Call the temple at (609) 730-8100 to reserve
