Philip Rubenstein 
Prolific Speaker Extraordinaire

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The chair is Lynne Nathan

A retired Clinical Pharmacist and Medicines Adviser, enthusiastic amateur thespian and a founder member of B’nai Brith Cheshire Players.

Cast a Giant Shadow, 1966. Kirk Douglas leads a host of Hollywood greats in a Zionist epic

Philip Rubenstein is an adviser to family-owned businesses. He has been active in Jewish community for many years, and served as the first director of the Holocaust Education Trust. He also likes movies. 

Philip will be sharing his favourite clips from these and many other old movies, followed by a Q&A session:

1. Which "dirty rat" spoke perfect Yiddish?

2. What was the first ever movie to address antisemitism?

3. Is the bottle dance in Fiddler on the Roof a real Hasidic dance or a cinematic invention?

4. How did Woody Allen's parents in his hit movie Hannah and Her Sisters react to news that he'd converted to Catholicism?

5. In which musical does a man sing to a gorilla who's not really a gorilla?

Hester Street, 1975. Leaving behind the old country, finding their way in the new