Elizabeth Mandel
When the wrong ice cream provokes a feminist mother’s quandary.
When They Mess Up Your Daughter’s Ice Cream Order
Author: Elizabeth Mandel
Elizabeth Mandel is a documentary filmmaker with a special interest in women’s empowerment and gender-based violence. She co-directed the 2010 documentary “Pushing the Elephant,†about a Congolese mother and daughter.
King & Mandela
Elizabeth Mandel
In memory of Mr. Mandela and in honor of MLK Day, I share my mother’s memories.
Goldieblox and the Three Girls
Elizabeth Mandel
Three girls who overturn media assumptions by building a Rube Goldberg machine using a pink tea set.
The Jewish Costs of Jewish Education
Elizabeth Mandel
My husband and I long ago decided that a Jewish day school education was a top priority for us.
The Challenges of Raising Jewish Daughters
Elizabeth Mandel
Raised in a Modern Orthodox home, I have long struggled with the contradictions I have found inherent in being both a committed Jew and a feminist.
Feminists In Focus: The Market For Organ Trade
Elizabeth Mandel
I recently returned from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Europe’s premier documentary film festival. It seemed apt, in a city infamous for its offering of everything for sale, to… Read more »
Feminists in Focus: A Peaceful Middle East
Elizabeth Mandel
The media is replete with violent images of Palestinians, Israelis and Muslims; of veiled Muslim women subjected to the will of the men in their lives; of a sense of hopelessness regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The recent documentary film “Budrus,” directed by Julia Bacha, offers an alternative version to this story, and through that, hope for an alternative vision for the future.