Tisha B'Av and the Nine Days

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Tisha B'Av 2024/5784 Schedule

Monday, August 12 (Erev Tisha B’Av):

6:00 PM: Mincha [note special time]
8:05 PM: Fast begins
8:15 PM: Maariv and Eicha reading (Sanctuary)
Available via Zoom here. Please contact a shul staff member for the passcode.
9:30 PM: Eicha reading by men and women for men and women (Sanctuary)

Tuesday, August 13 (Tisha B'Av)

8:00 AM: Shacharit with explanatory kinnot (Sanctuary)
Available via Zoom here. Please contact a shul staff member for the passcode.
1:13 PM: Chatzot (Midday)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM:

Tisha B’Av Film Screening at Ohev Sholom titled A Film Unfinished (free)
Documentary film Paper Clips for children in 3rd-6th grade

6:45 PM - 7:30 PM: Pre-Mincha Class
7:30 PM: Mincha, followed by a shiur from Rabbi David Wolkenfeld
8:35 PM: Maariv, followed by a light breakfast sponsored by Harris Cohen
8:47 PM: Fast ends

Laws and Customs by Rabbi David Wolkenfeld can be viewed here.

About A Film Unfinished

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film was discovered intact in an East German archive. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, and labeled simply “Das Ghetto,” this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto.

In 1998, another reel was discovered that radically complicated the scholarly interpretation of “Das Ghetto.” The footage, in which glimpses of the Nazi filmmakers can be seen when they accidentally step into each others’ shots, makes clear the great extent to which the Reich’s propagandists staged the scenes in the unfinished film that came to be known as “Das Ghetto.”

A Film Unfinished presents the raw footage of the latter reel in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences (including a staged dinner party) falsely showing “the good life” enjoyed by Jewish urbanites. We also glimpse the filmmakers forcing some of the more prosperous Jewish inhabitants to ignore the corpses lying in the streets.

Without forcing any conclusions about what the object of the propaganda film, director Yael Hersonski offers insight into how what we believe to be definitive and historical is not always what it appears to be.