Dinner, Donuts & Documentary

L’Annexe and Moishe House invite you to an evening of dinner, donuts, and a
documentary in the lounge at L’Annexe: the Ometz Centre for Young Adults. We
will be serving a meal and holiday desserts while screening the film “I Want
To Know”.

_”Boys who spend every day, from morning to night, buried in scripture.
Throughout their school years, they will learn only to read and interpret the
Divine law written in the time of Moses. Little girls whose future has been
decided for them: they will be wives and mothers. They will never attend
university, and in any case they apparently have no desire to go. University
is a place full of temptations, impure people, profane books._

_And now these boys and girls, who grew up in Orthodox Jewish communities,
are adults. They want to know why they did not receive any secular education.
They accuse these countries of allowing them to grow up in enclaves where the
great democratic value behind so many foreign wars was never honoured:
freedom. The freedom to think, the freedom to learn._

_This film follows Quebecer Yohanan Lowen. He is the first person to sue the
government for failing to meet its educational obligations. The film will also
look at other people around the world who, like Yohanan, are fighting for
reparations for previous generations and justice for those to come. The film
echoes these young people’s outcry against indifference._

_Beyond that outcry, the film explores the consequences of this lack of
education, particularly poverty. It also tries to understand the reasons for
the wholesale rejection of non-religious education, and why our societies
refuse to take action.”_

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