Kinderland and American Birthright Films - Double Feature - Two Screenings

The Tallahassee Jewish Federation is pleased to announce the first film in our 2024 Jewish film series.

We are starting the year with a double feature of Kinderland and American Birthright.

Annually, the Tallahassee Jewish Federation supports summer camp scholarships and our first film, Kinderland is a short documentary film that tells the story of two secular Jewish summer camps in upstate New York.  Both have cultivated social activists for almost a century and are still in existence today. The camps were founded by secular working-class Jews on either side of the leftist political divide. Kinderland was communist; Kinder Ring (The Workmen's Circle) socialist. Despite numerous commonalities, they enjoyed a legendary feud from opposite ends of Sylvan Lake. In response to the recent increase in antisemitism and the accompanying rise in intolerance and inequality, today's campers, a largely secular multi-ethnic group, prioritize shared values over philosophical differences and attempt to…