Professional Film About The Disengagement From Gaza, Thursday Night

A professional film about the Disengagement from Gaza, will be shown at an event by women in Crown Heights to raise funds for women in Kfar Chabad who are making Chassidishe Farbrengens with women who were expelled from Gush Katif.

The documentary entitled “And Behold There Came a Great Wind,” which was given honorable mention at the Jerusalem Film Festival this summer, will be the feature presentation at the home of Mrs. Miriam Feldman, Thursday evening at 8 pm.

The entrance donation of $25 will be going to support the efforts by a group of women in Kfar Chabad to reach out to women from Gush Katif who were the victims of the evil Disengagement Plan. “Although other groups can give support to the Gush Katif refugees by sending them shoes and coats, only Chabad Chassidim can provide the special Chabad Varmkeit, Lebedikite, and medicinal philosophy to help heal the spiritual wounds caused by the evil Disengagement Plan,” says Mrs. Feldman, whose husband is a popular Crown Heights physician.

“And Behold There Came a Great Wind” opens by introducing its characters eight full months before the Disengagement, and follows their thoughts, feelings and actions until the Disengagement becomes a reality. Without commentary by the film maker, the characters themselves reveal what it is like to have the very establishment which they supported, destroy their lives without mercy. One character in particular shows how loyalty, usually thought of as an honorable trait, can lead to destruction.

The Kfar Chabad activists work together with Gush Katif Shlucha Mrs. Tzippora Kirshenzaft. Yehudis Piamenta of Kfar Chabad has been instrumental in initiating and following up on the Farbrengens with the women of Gush Katif. “Our goal is to bring the Rebbe to the women of Gush Katif,” says Mrs. Piamenta. “We hope to continue programs for our new friends, expanding to include evacuees at all locations and by making programs to include all the refugees from Gush Katif.”