Sunday, July 16, 3:00 PM EDT

"My Tree" - Using donations that children collected via “little blue boxes,” the Jewish National Fund has planted more than 250 million trees in Israel/Palestine. Ostensibly to “make the desert bloom,” the planting has radically altered the land’s biodiversity. My Tree follows filmmaker Jason Sherman’s journey to find the tree planted in his name on the occasion of his bar mitzvah. When he discovers that “his” tree is in a forest covering up a Palestinian village destroyed in 1967 – one of many forests hiding scores of destroyed villages – he seeks to learn the motivations behind JNF’s tree-planting enterprise and to understand his own culpability.

Watch the film at your convenience before the event (link will be sent after registering). Then join with your thoughts and questions for the speakers at the Q&A Discussion

Speakers: Jason Sherman: Jewish Canadian playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker / Seth Morrison: Treasurer, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, who publicly resigned from the Washington DC Board of Jewish National Fund / Mazin Qumsiyeh: author, founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University About_the_Moderator_and_Panelists_July_2023_final.pdf (mcusercontent.com)

Trailer: MyTree - Trailer on Vimeo

To register (will be sent a link to the full film after registration): Meeting Registration - Zoom

Co-Sponsors for July VFHL Online Film Salon: Kehilla Community Synagogue » Chavurah for a Free Palestine (kehillasynagogue.org) and Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) (theipmn.org)