SpeakEasy Cafe

The Other Israel SpeakEasy Cafe returns with non-stop intimate conversations and in-depth discussions with filmmakers, scholars and experts.

All conversations are Free & Open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Located at The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th Street.

3:30pm WORKING TOGETHER Filmmakers Mohammad Bakri and Vanessa Knutsen discuss their work following New Voices

6:00pm A WAY UP Media personality Merav Michaeli and Ramy A. Katz, director of F reeFlow.

8:30pm A MESSAGE OF HOPE Catrin Ormestad, former Gaza correspondent for Ha'aretz and The Economist, following A Bottle in the Gaza Sea.

10:40pm DEPARTURES Tawfik Abu Wael, director of Tanathor: Last Days in Jerusalem.

12:00pm PRE-SCREENING RECEPTION Hosted by Partners for Progressive Israel, with Robi Demalin, protoganist of One Day After Peace.

2:30pm TRUTH & RECONCILIATION Journalist Gideon Levy and Robi Damelin, protoganist of One Day After Peace.

6:20pm SPEAKING YOUR VOICE Uri Zaki of B'Tselem USA, Journalist Gideon Levy, and Shlomi Elkabetz, director of Testimony (Edut).

7:30pm OTHER VOICES OF CONSCIENCE Challenging the status quo in Israel Today. READ MORE.

9:45pm INTERSECTIONS OF ISRAELI SOCIETY A Conversation following Present Perspectives.

8:00pm TO SERVE OR NOT TO SERVE Journalist Gideon Levy and Naomi Levari, director of Ameer Got His Gun.

9:50pm JUST KIDDING? Journalist Merav Michaeli, following Arab Labor.

8:00pm NEITHER HERE NOR THERE Media personality Merav Michaeli and Luci Aharish, protagonist of Unidentified

10:00pm THE FULL SPECTRUM Conversation with Judy Maltz, director of From The Black You Make Color.