Young, Jewish, and Left

Young, Jewish, and Left

Young, Jewish, and Left is a US documentary that presents several US-based Leftist Jews grappling with identity, politics, and culture.

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Outside the mainstream for their race, spiritual practices, sexuality, gender, and politics, young Jews build radical communities.

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name = "Young, Jewish, and Left"


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director = Michael Konnie Chameides & Irit Reinheimer
producer = Michael Konnie Chameides & Irit Reinheimer
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music = Mirah, Nomy Lamm, Divahn
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editing = Michael Konnie Chameides
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released = April 16, 2006
runtime = 55
country = USA
language = English
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website = http://www.youngjewishandleft.org
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ynopsis

"Young, Jewish, and Left" combines queer culture, Jewish-Arab history, secular "Yiddishkeit", anti-racist analysis, and religious traditions into a multi-layered picture of the circa 2006 Jewish Left. Personal experiences from many of the era's leading Jewish activists frame Jewish identity in what it the official website says is "a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionism, queerness, resistance, justice, and liberation."

Dan Berger, in Left Turn Magazine, writes: "Young Jewish and Left provides a beautiful cross-section of today's visionary thinkers, activists, and artists. The film celebrates the profound legacy of resistance among Jews—and criticizes the reactionary elements in Jewish communities, from the occupation to assimilation, patriarchy and homophobia. And it calls the Left to task for generally lacking an understanding of Jewish history or culture.” [ [http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/420 Young Jewish and Left | Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada ] ]

Jennifer Bleyer, on nextbook.org argues that it ". . . proves that the legacy of Jewish socialists, anarchists, feminists, Yippies, hippies, organizers, and agitators of the past century lives on. . ." [ [http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=433 Nextbook: Organizers and Agitators ] ]

People Featured In Documentary [Young, Jewish, and Left Official Press Kit]

Vicki Alcoset - Working Class, Mixed-Race Jew
Micah Bazant - Co-Author of the Love & Justice In Times of War Haggadah
Rabbi Haim Beliak - Co-Director, Stop Moskowitz Campaign
Jenine Bressner - Artist
Lena Broderson - Hebrew School Teacher
Julia Caplan - Co-Founder of A Jewish Voice for Peace, San Francisco Bay Area
Yonah Diamond - Union Organizer
Nava Etshalom - Writer and Activist
Harmony Goldberg - Educator, SOUL (School of Unity & Liberation)
Miriam Grant - Former Participant and Staff, Jewish Youth for Community Action
Shira Hassan - Social Worker
Haddasah Ladies for Homos
Molly Hein - Media artist and Klezmer singer

Julie Iny - Community Organizer and Historian of Arab Jewish Left

Loolwa Khazoom - Editor, "The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage"
Paul Kivel - Violence Prevention Educator

Rabbi Michael Lerner - National Chair, The Tikkun Community and Author
And A. Lusia - Rabble Rouser
Josina Manu Maltzman - Feygelech for a Free Palestine
Rachel Marcus - Student, Oberlin College, grew up going to Kinderland – Jewish socialist summer camp
Emily Nepon - Co-creator of Suck My Treyf Gender, Bar Mitzvah-boy drag performer, author of [www.newjewishagenda.org NewJewishAgenda.org]
Steve Quester - Early-childhood Educator and Queer Jewish Activist
Penny Rosenwasser - Jewish Voice for Peace, Board Member
Jna Shelomith - Revolutionary
Deb Shoval - Playwright, Director of An Olive on the Seder Plate
Dara Silverman - Director of JFREJ- Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Rabbi Arthur Waskow - Director of Shalom Center and Author
Liz Werner - Writer/Translator/Teacher, grandparents blacklisted in McCarthy era.

Festivals and Conferences [ [http://www.youngjewishandleft.org/press.html Young, Jewish & Left ] ]

2006 ARPA International Film Festival
2007 Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival
2007 Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival
2007 Not Quite Kosher Film Festival, San Diego State University Hillel
2007 Big Muddy Film Festival, University of Southern Illinois
2007 Jewdas Jewish Film Festival, London
2007 National Conference on Organized Resistance
2007 Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture Conference
2008 Maine Jewish Film Festival

References

External Links

[http://www.youngjewishandleft Official Website]
[http://www.myspace.com/youngjewishandleft Official Myspace Page]
[http://www.forward.com/articles/left-out/ Interview in "Jewish Forward"]
[http://www.leftturn.org/?q=node/420&bc=a%3A4%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A20%3A%22%3Ca+href%3D%22%2F%22%3EHome%3C%2Fa%3E%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A44%3A%22%3Ca+href%3D%22%2F%3Fq%3Dcurrentissue%22%3ECurrent+Issue%3C%2Fa%3E%22%3Bi%3A2%3Bs%3A41%3A%22%3Ca+href%3D%22%2F%3Fq%3Dbackissues%22%3EBack+Issues+%3C%2Fa%3E%22%3Bi%3A3%3Bs%3A63%3A%22%3Ca+href%3D%22%2F%3Fq%3Dbackissue%26amp%3Bvid%3D%26amp%3Btid%3D26%22+class%3D%22active%22%3E%3C%2Fa%3E%22%3B%7D Review in "Left Turn Magazine"]
[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/bridges_a_jewish_feminists_journal/v011/11.2kenin.html Abstract from article in "Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal"]
[http://www.freespeech.org/schedule/search.php?keywords=young%2C+jewish%2C+and+left Screening schedule on Free Speech TV]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-vD1vJ0lc Clip from movie about anti-Semitism on youtube]


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