Annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival

Join us for the 15th Annual Israeli and Jewish Film Festival!!

Schedule of Events:

2:00 pm: Moses Ezekiel: A Portrait of a Lost Artist

From the award-winning director of 50 Children and The Levys of Monticello, Steven Pressman's timely and provocative new documentary film tells the unknown story of artist Moses Ezekiel (1844-1917), a world-famous American sculptor who had been born and raised in a large Jewish family in Richmond, Virginia.

Before becoming an artist, he was the first Jewish cadet to be enrolled at the Virginia Military Institute and was among a class of cadets who fought for the Confederacy in the 1864 Battle of New Market during the U.S. Civil War.

This documentary film tells Ezekiel's story, while also focusing on the modern-day debate over the presence of Confederate statues and monuments in the United States, including those made by Ezekiel.