[van-announce] October 18th, Canadian Premier of Young, Jewish and Left in Vancouver

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CANADIAN PREMIERE OF YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT!

Thursday, October 18th 7 pm

@ Rhizome Cafe (317 East Broadway Vancouver)

Film Screening and short program to follow.

$5 - 10, sliding scale (No one will be turned away for lack of funds)

Presented by Jewish Anarchist Youth (Vancouver) and Jewish Voice for Peace
(Seattle)


YOUNG, JEWISH AND LEFT makes it's Canadian Debut!
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 (grandmother) 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.