Jewish Film Festival

Kicking off on July 20 and running through Aug. 6, this year’s festival showcased the diversity, complexity and enduring spirit of Jewish life around the world in its vast array of short and feature-length films.

The festival, the first and largest of its kind, serves to amplify a set of narratives whose right to be spoken proves increasingly contested.

There’s a tapestry of common threads throughout “Fiddler on the Roof” that allows the show to reach across any perceived boundaries.

He believes that people caught in the conflict miss leading a normal life. “People want it,” he said. “But we don’t have the leadership to take us there.”