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The opening-night reception for Temple Emanu-El’s 13th annual Kirk Cashmere Jewish Film Festival is Saturday, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. at the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre, 900 S. Beretania St.
The ticket price includes pupu, falafel pita and hummus pita sandwiches from Shaloha; music by temple spiritual director Ken Aronowitz; and a no-host bar. A screening of “Keeping Up With the Steins” follows at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15, $12 for museum members and free for 17 and under. A pass for all eight films is $75.
The film festival runs through March 20, with 23 showings of eight movies. They examine the Jewish experience from Greece’s Adriatic coast to New York’s Lower East Side and cover everything from culinary traditions and literary icons to historic events and some of the most pressing current issues, a news release said.
Backed by the Davis Levin and Livingston Foundation, the festival is named in memory of Kirk Cashmere, an attorney, advocate for social justice and Jewish scholar.