Join Builders Yonatan and Susan Shamgar for Kazablan, a 1973 Israeli musical starring Yehoram Gaon. An Israeli West Side Story about a Mizrahi gang leader in Jaffa and his relationship with an Ashkenazi woman that scandalizes their neighborhood as it is threatened with demolition by the municipality. Based on a late 60s stage musical that […]
Get together with the Shamgars for another lazy Sunday afternoon watching another classic of Jewish cinema: Hester Street. Joan Micklin Silver’s remarkable feature debut is a vivid, lovingly detailed evocation of the late-nineteenth-century Jewish Lower East Side built around a luminous, Academy Award–nominated performance from Carol Kane as Gitl, a young woman from Eastern Europe who […]
Join the Shamgars for a chill, adults-only Board Game Hang and Havdalah service! Feel free to bring a favorite game or snack to share. Register
As Hanukkah winds to a close, it's time for a Flametacular Board Game Night with your fellow Mishkanites! Join Builders Susan and Yonatan Shamgar to light Hanukkah candles and play some board games at their home in Irving Park. Feel free to bring a game of your choice, a snack, or just bring yourselves! Latkes […]