UPHEAVAL: The Journey of Menachem Begin
2020, United States | 88 Minutes
Synopsis:
Imprisoned by the Soviets. Orphaned by the Holocaust. Elected Prime Minister. Crowned peacemaker by the Nobel Prize Committee. Haunted by the Lebanon War. Menachem Begin was a pillar of the State of Israel and a tireless fighter for the Jewish people.
With evocative imagery, rarely seen archival materials, and revealing interviews with Israelis and Americans who knew him both personally and as Prime Minister, Upheaval portrays the life and essence of this brilliant, tough, complex, loving, and proud man who never compromised when the survival of Israel and the Jewish people were at stake.
Upheaval Discussion
A pre-recorded post screening discussion is included with the each viewing link. Discussion participants include:
Abbie Green Snyder, Associate Producer UPHEAVAL
David Brog, Director Maccabee Task Force
Jonathan Gruber, Director UPHEAVAL
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Upheaval Discussion participants
ABBIE GREEN SNYDER previously practiced law at Las Vegas firm Lionel Sawyer and Collins, specializing in corporate and gaming law. Abbie began her legal career as an assistant legislative aide assigned to the Judiciary Committee for Senator Joseph Biden. Abbie presently serves, and has formerly served, on the national boards of the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and the United way of Southern Nevada.
Abbie is a member of the Jewish Nevada Women's Philanthropy, a Minion Member of AIPAC, and is also a member of the International Association of the Gaming Advisors. Moreover, Abbie is a life member of the Betar Zionist Organization, the revisionist Zionist youth movement that Menachem Begin led in Poland prior to World War II.
DAVID BROG is the Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, an organization launched in 2015 to combat the delegitimization of Israel on college campuses and beyond.
Before joining the Maccabees, Brog served as the Executive Director of Christians United for Israel from its founding in 2006 until 2015. Prior to CUFI, Brog worked in the United States Senate where he was chief of staff to Senator Arlen Specter and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In 2007, the Forward newspaper listed Brog in its "Forward 50" most influential Jews in America. In 2017, the Algemeiner newspaper listed Brog as one of the “Algemeiner Jewish 100.” He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Brog is the author of Reclaiming Israel’s History: Roots, Rights and the Struggle for Peace (2017), In Defense of Faith: the Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity (2010) and Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State (2006).
JONATHAN GRUBER is the Director of UPHEAVAL: The Journey of Menachem Begin and the Executive Producer of Black Eye Productions, where he has been directing, producing and writing documentary films and videos for more than 20 years.
He has made multiple award-winning feature documentaries that have been prominently featured at festivals, aired on U.S. public television, and broadcast around the world including: Miriam Beerman: Expressing the Chaos (2015), Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story (2012), Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray (2011), Life is a Banquet (2009), and Pola’s March (1998).
His TV shows have aired on the History Channel, Discovery Channels, National Geographic, and many more. He was an executive producer and co-creator of the MSNBC series, Story of Cool (2018). He has worked extensively in historical subjects, including Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, and the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
