With My Whole Broken Heart: Tisha B'Av Programming

With My Whole Broken Heart tells how in the summer of 2001, two Jewish teenagers were hiking near their homes in Israel when they were stoned to death by terrorists. A few months later, Daniel Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan; his last words: "My father's Jewish, my mother's Jewish, I'm Jewish.“
 

The film features heart-wrenching stories of valiant parents whose children's lives were claimed by terror and their inspiring responses to their horrific experiences. The documentary also follows the lives of two of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald who emerged from the darkness and transformed the Jewish landscape.
 

The film is framed around the Rebbe's response to the 1956 terror attack in Kfar Chabad that claimed lives of 5 students, and features interviews with Daniel's parents, Ruth and Judea Pearl; Sherri Mandell, mother of Kobi Mandell; former Israeli chief rabbi, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; and Rabbi Nissan Mangel.
 

The film will be followed by an open round-table discussion with local renowned thinkers and trauma professionals about the triumph and strength of the human spirit to overcome and prevail in the face of trauma and challenge.