JCRCUpcoming Events
One year ago, the Twin Cities Chinese and Jewish communities came together for a historic milestone: the world premiere performance of the first act of Shanghailanders by Master Shen Pei, Artistic Director of Shen Pei Arts Alliance, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota Center for Jewish Studies. Now the wait is over. The complete two-act dance […]
Celebrate and support JCRC at our Annual Event.
JCRC and the Barry Family Campus welcome you to attend the unveiling of a Kindertransport History Bench on our campus. The Kindertransport History Bench offers visitors a space to reflect, rest, and engage with history. Each bench includes a QR code that links to video testimonies from Kindertransport survivors, preserving their voices and experiences for […]
Please join us Wednesday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m. at the Minnesota JCC - St, Paul Capp Center as we come together as a community for a brief and meaningful ceremony of remembrance. We will gather for a memorial candle lighting and prayers as we honor the lives lost and hold their families and loved […]
MINNESOTA PREMIERE Preceded by: The Suitcase This remarkable historical thriller from Catalan director, screenwriter, and producer Judith Colell tells the gripping and incredible true story of the heroism of a Spanish village on the border with France in the Pyrenees during World War II. In 1943, a group of the town’s inhabitants, led by customs […]
MINNESOTA PREMIERE Part heist film and part historical investigation, THE STAMP THIEF follows screenwriter Gary Gilbert on an audacious quest to recover a cache of stamps allegedly stolen by a Nazi officer from a concentration camp and hidden for decades in a basement in Legnica, Poland. With director Dan Sturman, Gilbert assembles a crew and […]
MINNESOTA PREMIERE Filmmaker and journalist Marisa Fox joins TCJFF in person for a remarkable investigation into the mother she thought she knew—and the history her mother spent a lifetime trying to leave behind. Twenty years after her mother’s death, Fox uncovers a secret that transforms everything she understood about her family. She knew her mother […]
MINNESOTA PREMIERE TCJFF’s Gen Z Onscreen Night spotlights a new generation turning the camera on their own lives—using bold, personal storytelling to wrestle with identity, memory, and the questions they’ve inherited. This year’s selection follows an American college student searching rural Romania for traces of her grandmother’s early life, armed with little more than unmarked […]
Celebrating JCRC's Jewish Education Program highlighted in Dara’s new book REGISTER TO ATTEND Tickets are complimentary. Venue will be disclosed upon registration confirmation. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Look for us in Dara Horn's new book! After visiting the Twin Cities three years ago, we are honored that Dara Horn’s new […]
Three remarkable stories. Three very different lives. One question: What happens when you discover a responsibility larger than yourself? Call Me Papa: The Letters of Otto Frank MINNESOTA PREMIERE From […]
We invite you to a presentation and moderated conversation with Amy Fish, author of One in Six Million, the story of a Jewish child left by the road side in […]
Join JCRC for our Annual Hanukkah Party at a Minneapolis location! More details to come.
