A symbolic and spiritual journey. This beautiful film traces the travels of Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg from his home in England to retrieve the light from the ner tamid of his grandfather's synagogue in Germany. Traveling by foot with his dog, Rabbi Wittenberg sets out on a pilgrimage; to carry the flame that never went out to his newly built London synagogue. Jonathan explores matters of faith, politics, and memory, illuminating his personal and spiritual ethos as he passes through picturesque German Rhineland - like fragments of light gathered to constitute a flame.
Festivals
- Religion Today International Film Festival, Italy, 2012
- U.N. Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration, NJ, 2012
- Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2012
- Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, Israel, 2011
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In "Carrying the Light," in lieu of defeating the purpose of remembrance by rehashing a tragedy, Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg ventures by foot from Frankfurt, Germany all the way over to his newly built synagogue in London, equipped with a small flashlight symbolic of the so-called "eternal light" that never extinguished in his grandfather's synagogue during Kristallnacht in 1938. Wittenberg's grandfather's synagogue was part of a slew that was vandalized during the Holocaust that year.
For the entire review by Lilianna Albrizio/Northern Valley Suburbanite, check: http://www.northjersey.com/news/non-profit/volunteers/138544829_JCC_organizes_Holocaust_remembrance_.html