This story refers to a real screening reported by The Jewish News (Detroit), describing how a documentary about the Jews of Kerala, India, was used to build a cultural connection between the West Bloomfield, Michigan Jewish community and Israel.
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Kerala’s Cochin Jewish community has been the subject of several real documentaries used in exactly this kind of community outreach screening, including Where the Heart Is (2012) and Dr. Johanna Spector’s films from 1976 and 1992. See our roundup of Cochin Jewish documentaries for details and links.