PORTLAND PREMIERE OF YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT!
Monday, August 20th
7-9 pm
short program to follow the film
$5-10, sliding scale
*no one turned away for lack of funds*
Liberty Hall
311 N Ivy St
near buses 4, 33, 40
www.liberty-hall.org
503 249-8888
YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT makes its Portland debut at Liberty Hall, 311 N Ivy St, on Monday, August 20th at 7pm. Admission price is $5-10, sliding scale. Short program to follow. For more information about the film, please go to www.youngjewishandleft.org.
The film opens with an exploration of the Israel-Palestine conflict and its effects on the American Jewish community. While Israel and Zionism are major themes of YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT, the movie goes beyond these issues, providing a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, queerness, resistance, justice and liberation.
Many progressive Jews have been marginalized by Jewish institutions with a more conservative stance. YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT features community organizers, playwrights, artists and rabbis who are building progressive organizations, new rituals, and inclusive communities.
A celebration of diversity, YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, anti-racist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multi-layered tapestry of leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today's leading Jewish activists reframe the possibilities of Jewish identity.
Inspired by the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Workmen's Circle, and by their own communist & socialist grandparents, these Jewish radicals are creating a more just future by learning from and identifying with a collective, rich Jewish heritage of reform and rebellion. At a time when religious fundamentalists take power in the US and around the world, this documentary is an inspiration. Grab your Bubbe (grandmot her) and your habibi (loved one) and check it out.
YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT is written, directed, and edited by Konnie Chameides and Irit Reinheimer. Reinheimer lives in West Philadelphia and co-authored "Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be . . ." a coloring book, published by Soft Skull Press. Chameides is the Program Director at Time & Space Limited, in Hudson, New York.