World Premiere!

John Block’s I WILL BUILD THIS WORLD FROM LOVE tells the story of several young women and men from the country of Georgia who aspire to practice their Judaism in all its fullness and without limitation. While their impending b’nai mitzvah ceremony raises the ire of Georgia’s dominant patriarchal orthodox Jewish community, they find acceptance from Georgia’s former Evangelical Baptist archbishop – demoted for his controversial stand against homophobia and Islamophobia.  Undaunted, he builds a Peace Cathedral, housing  a church, synagogue, and mosque under one roof, all in an effort to advance interfaith relations and global harmony.

Q&A with director John Block, with Oliver Miede, Neil Grabowsky and Tristen Stafford, Cantor Meredith Greenberg, and subjects Golan Ben-Chorin and Malkaz Songulashvili (the former Archbishop of Georgia) follows the screening.

Presented in Partnership with Greg Kahn (Board of Trustees)