Jewish by Osmosis: Highlights from the 26th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
How does an atheist goy come to say thank God for the 26th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival?
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How does an atheist goy come to say thank God for the 26th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival?
View the original at Bay Area ReporterState legislators viewed “Hineini,” a documentary on a gay student’s “coming out” at a Boston area Jewish day school, and discussed the film with the student, Shulamit Izen, and the filmmakers at a special screening at the State House last week.
View the original at The Jewish AdvocateIrena Fayngold’s Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School tells the story of Shula’s determination to establish a Gay- Straight Alliance at the New Jewish High School (now the Gann Academy), a private pluralistic religious school in Waltham, Massachusetts. But it also tells the bigger story of what it means to be gay and Jewish in modern times and how to reconcile one’s sexual identity with a religion that calls homosexuality an abomination.
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