198:. A 38-minute film, which raises issues about the destructive power of family secrets. Told from a daughter's point of view, this is an exploration of love in its many contradictory manifestations. Against the backdrop of her aging parents as they lie next to each other in adjoining hospital beds, like two Beckett characters immobilized by sickness, Rivlin seeks to make sense of her parents’ lives. She explores her father's relationship to his family and his infidelities. In searching for answers, she reveals the multiple layers of the human condition as she introduces into the narrative her brother, sister, aunts, her mother's best friend, and her father's mistress, an African-American woman decades his junior who tells of his generosity to the South East community where he had a grocery store.
158:. In 1975 Esther Broner and Naomi Nimrod wrote the first Women's Haggadah, leading the way for modern Jewish feminism. For the next 36 years, Esther Broner led the Feminist Seder in NYC with a core group of women. This film documents the evolution of the Jewish feminism through the Feminist Seder. We use archival footage and interviews with leading Jewish feminists who attended the Seder such as Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, and Canadian feminist/author Michel Landsberg. At the same time it tells the story of Esther Broner, described by the NY Times as a writer who explored the double marginalization of being Jewish and female. She was “intensely concerned with Jewish spirituality, and with carving out a place for women in a faith tradition that had long seemed not to want them.”
215:. Shown on PBS, and Israeli and Italian t.v, is a portrait of a family whose roots stretch back into Eastern Europe, but whose destiny became synonymous with that of Jerusalem to which they immigrated nearly 200 years ago. The story of this extended family as a microcosm of the Jewish saga from 1550 in Eastern Europe to their arrival in Jerusalem all comes together through the vehicle of the Reunion. Two thousand five hundred of the tribe's 10,000 family members gathered in Jerusalem's main conference center to celebrate their ancestor's arrival in Palestine, and, to celebrate each other. Speaker of the Knesset Ruvi Rivlin is interviewed in this film. The filmmaker is his cousin Lilly.
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Passover where women have cooked and men have presided over the Seder, this group of women—mothers and daughters, sisters and friends—reads from a feminist Haggadah. They also choose a theme relevant to their lives and each woman contributes her insights. This Seder has been ongoing for eight years and includes luminaries of the women's movement such as Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem. These rituals demonstrate how traditions can be updated to make women full participants.
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documents Jewish feminists creating new rituals. In the three rituals shown in this video---the
Feminist Seder, a baby- girl naming ceremony and a Women's Tashlich, the women speak about their lives and how they felt left out of traditional Jewish rituals, and now they have created rituals for them.
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Rivlin is a supporter of feminism and non-violent conflict resolution. She is also a follower of Middle
Eastern politics and Jewish affairs. She began her prominence as an expert on Jewish history with her work as the principal researcher for the best selling book,
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York, Paley spent a lifetime on the front lines of the feminist, anti-war and nuclear disarmament movements. (USA 74 minutes) color) 28 Awards.
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