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‘All God’s Children’ Review: A Brooklyn Synagogue and a Church Seeking Unity Offer an Edifying Parable for Our Time
Good-faith gestures are put to the test in Ondi Timoner’s doc about the efforts of a rabbi and preacher's efforts to address racism and antisemitism.
To read Antioch’s annual passion play strictly within the context of a long European tradition of antisemitism and “blood libel” is to perhaps miss a more People of Moses-resonant case of how that story of God’s love took hold in the lives of America’s enslaved Blacks. As the difficulties continue, a viewer can rightly wonder, what on earth possessed Timoner and Waterman to begin this journey with such a deep focus on religion, often the cause of ancient and ongoing enmity? But then as the film heads toward its conclusion — one that includes last October’s terrorist attacks by Hamas and the killing of thousands of Palestinians by the Israeli government — it’s hard to imagine that any of these participants would have felt as deeply about each other were it not for confronting those missteps.
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