Amy Stone
You’ve got to be attracted to a call to a Yom Kippur service next to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, especially when the Facebook invite starts with a quote from… Read more »
Kol Nidre Alongside Occupy Wall Street
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Out and Ordained – An Update
Amy Stone
Before updating Lilith readers on the story “Out and Ordained,” in Lilith’s current issue, a few corrections to the published piece: –While Rachel Isaacs is the first openly gay rabbinical… Read more »
Today we’re all gay…
Amy Stone
Today we’re all gay… Yes, yes, we’re still in the afterglow. The dinosaurs of Albany, more known for corruption and dysfunction, have stunned and delighted us by making same-sex marriage… Read more »
Missing Esther Broner
Amy Stone
I’ve just come home from Esther Broner’s funeral. Esther got the A-list of speakers at her funeral. It was the list she put together right after her beloved husband, Robert,… Read more »
Feminists in Focus: Reporting back from the New York Jewish Film Festival ‘Yolande: An Unsung Heroine’ – the Egyptian Jewish spy – and ‘Red Shirley’
Amy Stone
Well before Mubarak, when Egypt had a king, and pashas and spies gathered on the balcony of Cairo’s Grand Continental Hotel, Yolande Gabai de Botton was gathering intelligence for the embryonic Jewish State.
Feminists in Focus: Reporting back from the New York Jewish Film Festival ‘Grace Paley: Collected Shorts’ and ‘As Lilith’
Amy Stone
“Grace Paley: Collected Shorts”
How does a Jewish feminist filmmaker celebrate success, long time a coming? In the case of Lilly Rivlin, generously.
Feminists in Focus: Reporting back from the New York Jewish Film Festival 'The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground'
Amy Stone
For any woman musician who’s fantasized about being the only babe in the band, “The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground” is a cautionary tale not to be taken lightly.
Feminists in Focus:Reporting back from the New York Jewish Film Festival ‘My So-Called Enemy’ and ‘The Human Resources Manager’
Amy Stone
Don’t expect a feel-good movie from “My So-Called Enemy” – the documentary following Jewish Israeli and Palestinian teen-age girls in the U.S. for a 10-day “Building Bridges for Peace” program back in 2002.
Feminists In Focus: ‘Mahler on the Couch’ Without Jewish Guilt at the New York Jewish Film Festival
Amy Stone
How refreshing to have the New York Jewish film festival open on Wednesday (Jan. 12) with an offering where the guilt is not Jewish. In “Mahler on the Couch,” the guilt emanates from the male ego of a musical genius (Gustav Mahler) suppressing the musical creativity of his wife – the much younger and super sexual Alma.
Rapunzel, Rapunzel
Amy Stone
Rapunzel, Rapunzel. Disney thinks your name is too girly girly and is calling its upcoming Rapunzel 3D cartoon vision “Tangled.” The Disney Juggernaut fears that giving the film a girl’s… Read more »