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St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Screening “Heart of Stone”
Tuesday, March 9th 2010
Screening of Heart of Stone
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 7:00pm
Performing Arts Center- Arts & Education Building Staenberg Family Complex
The documentary focuses on the Black students of Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ and their connection to the predominantly Jewish Alumni Association. The high school was made famous over half a century ago by the striking academic success of its graduates (90% Jewish); and Weequahic's glory days are memorialized in the pages of Philip Roth novels.
Filmmaker Beth Kruvant followed some of Weequahic's current students and Principal Ron Stone, who risked his life daily trying to make a positive impact on his gang- associated students. The members of the WHS Alumni Association, nostalgic of a day when the Newark high school was academically the best in the nation, and demonstrated harmonious living between Black and Jewish students (the Black football players even spoke Yiddish on the field), decided to raise money for college scholarships for Weequahic's current students.
This community in Newark is not unlikeSt. Louis’s Soldan and U-City High Schools with the former Jewish student population and current predominantly Black population. The film will be followed by a panel discussion. There is much to admire and learn from this inspiring documentary.
Tickets $7.00
To order tickets call 314-442-3179.
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