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Restoring Tomorrow
Sunday, February 23, 2:00 PM
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
Virginia Wesleyan University
5817 Wesleyan Drive, Virginia Beach
Tickets: $10 Limited seating available. Pre-purchase strongly suggested.
Followed by a conversation with local screenwriter Marc Moss and director Aaron Wolf
Director Aaron Wolf | 82 mins
USA | 2017
English | Not Rated
Religious institutions are losing young members and closing their doors at an alarming rate. Restoring Tomorrow, a universal story of hope shows there is another way.
Restoring Tomorrow tells the tale of a national treasure, the opulent Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, built-in 1929 by the legendary movie moguls and showbiz congregants of the time. With its towering ten-story-high dome, it ranks with the Chinese theater and Griffith Planetarium as one of the great L.A. landmarks, but by the 21st century, it had fallen into such disrepair that the structure was on the verge of collapse.
Amid a Jewish exodus from East LA, the Rabbi undertakes an epic $150 million renovation, seeking not only to restore the building’s physical majesty but to create a center for Jewish life and social services for an ethnically diverse neighborhood. The seemingly impossible fundraising campaign and painstaking renovation are documented by LA-based filmmaker Aaron Wolf, who, like so many of his generation, had become disaffected from his congregation. In chronicling the Temple’s restoration, Wolf finds himself restored as he reconnects to his synagogue and his community.
In these divided times, Restoring Tomorrow ultimately demonstrates how, when any community puts its mind to it, people can come together, no matter what culture or religion.
As part of the Milton "Mickey" Kramer Scholar-in-Residence Fund of the Congregation Beth El Foundation's Tidewater Together Series
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Sunday, February 23, 2020 2:00 PM EST