Amy Stone
In the last 24 hours, two brutal attacks on Muslims made the news.
In the last 24 hours, two brutal attacks on Muslims made the news.
Hundreds of men, women and children turned out for the Day of Jewish Action for Refugees called by HIAS this past Sunday (Feb. 12). The rally was one of some dozen across the country.
A skilled tactician, Booth founded multiple organizations in the ’70s. By the ’80s, she was working on mainstream political campaigns, heeding the words of African-American educator and politician Alice Palmer: “If you don’t do politics, politics does you.”
Will women feel pressured into never breastfeeding their babies publicly?
A Lilith founding mother reflects on her parents’ Christmas tree, how she felt about it then, and how she feels now.
Her goal is nothing short of social change.
She did help bend the arc of history with her camera, her words, and her passion for justice – most dramatically, by involving herself in Jewish rescue.
“When she was being treated for cancer at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, she insisted on being moved to another hospital, not wanting to die where she had given birth.”
For those of us who track the successes for women in film, what a tour de force.
We’d like to think that art as free expression can thrive in the self-proclaimed democracy that is Israel.