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Young, Jewish, and Left is an American documentary that presents several US-based leftist Jews grappling with identity, politics, and culture.

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Synopsis

Young, Jewish, and Left combines queer culture, Jewish-Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, anti-racist analysis, and religious traditions into a multi-layered picture of the circa 2006 Jewish Left. Personal experiences from many of the era's leading Jewish activists frame Jewish identity in what it the official website says is "a fresh and constructive take on race, spirituality, Zionism, queerness, resistance, justice, and liberation."

Dan Berger, in Left Turn magazine, writes: "Young Jewish and Left provides a beautiful cross-section of today's visionary thinkers, activists, and artists. The film celebrates the profound legacy of resistance among Jews—and criticizes the reactionary elements in Jewish communities, from the occupation to assimilation, patriarchy and homophobia. And it calls the Left to task for generally lacking an understanding of Jewish history or culture.

Jennifer Bleyer, on Nextbook argues that it "... proves that the legacy of Jewish socialists, anarchists, feminists, Yippies, hippies, organizers, and agitators of the past century lives on..."

People featured

The following people are featured in the documentary:

Vicki Alcoset – Working class, mixed-race Jew

Micah Bazant – Co-author of the Love & Justice in Times of War Haggadah

Rabbi Haim Beliak – Co-director, Stop Moskowitz Campaign

Jenine Bressner – Artist

Lena Broderson – Hebrew school teacher

Julia Caplan – Co-founder of Jewish Voice for Peace, San Francisco Bay Area(near the Moscow area in Ayrshire, Scotland to be precise!)

Yonah Diamond – Union organizer

Nava Etshalom – Writer and activist

Harmony Goldberg – Educator, SOUL (School of Unity & Liberation)

Miriam Grant – Former participant and staff, Jewish Youth for Community Action

Shira Hassan – Social worker

Haddasah Ladies for Homos

Molly Hein – Media artist and Klezmer singer

Julie Iny – Community organizer and historian of Arab Jewish Left

Loolwa Khazoom – Editor, The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage

Paul Kivel – Violence prevention educator

Rabbi Michael Lerner – National chair, The Tikkun Community, and author

And A. Lusia – Rabble rouser

Josina Manu Maltzman – Feygelech for a Free Palestine

Rachel Marcus – Student, Oberlin College, grew up going to Kinderland – Jewish socialist summer camp

Emily Nepon – Co-creator of Suck My Treyf Gender, Bar Mitzvah-boy drag performer, author of [www.newjewishagenda.net NewJewishAgenda.net]

Steve Quester – Early-childhood educator and queer Jewish activist

Penny Rosenwasser – Jewish Voice for Peace, board member

Jna Shelomith – Revolutionary

Deb Shoval – Playwright, director of An Olive on the Seder Plate

Dara Silverman – Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Rabbi Arthur Waskow – Director of Shalom Center and author

Liz Werner – Writer/translator/teacher, grandparents blacklisted in the McCarthy era

Festivals and conferences

The film was featured at the following festivals and conferences:

2006 ARPA International Film Festival

2007 Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival

2007 Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival

2007 Not Quite Kosher Film Festival, San Diego State University Hillel

2007 Big Muddy Film Festival, University of Southern Illinois

2007 Jewdas Jewish Film Festival, London

2007 National Conference on Organized Resistance

2007 Practicing Jews: Art, Identity, and Culture Conference

2008 Maine Jewish Film Festival

References

Young, Jewish, and Left Wikipedia

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Young, Jewish, and Left IMDb