Live and Become

After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.

Sirak M. Sabahat, the actor who plays Schlomo as an adult, is an Ethiopian Jew who immigrated to Israel during a later evacuation called Operation Solomon. How do you think his personal experience may have affected the way he played this role?

Why do you think the character of Schlomo wanted so desperately to hold onto his Ethiopian roots? How does his adoption into a white Jewish family both help and hinder that desire?

To learn more about Ethiopian Jews and Operation Moses, check out the following websites:

http://www.iaej.co.il/pages/history_in_the_beginning.htm

http://www.iaej.co.il/pages/history_operation_moses.htm

http://www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com/pages/aksum.htm