Category: Culture/Tradition

“Melting Away”

“Melting Away”

IMDb – plot summary:

Shlomo who discovers in his son’s Assaf room, women’s clothing and accessories, decides to ‘teach the boy a lesson’. When Assaf returns to his parents’ home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His father, with the silent consent of his mother, locked the door. At present, 4 years later, Gallia turns to an investigation agency to help her find her son Assaf and bring him to Shlomo, his father who is dying of cancer. One night, at a night club in Tel Aviv, Assaf is seen performing as a beautiful transgender lady singer who goes by the name of Anna. After a few days a private nurse turns up at Shlomo’s room at the hospital, sent as she claims by the insurance agency to assist Shlomo. The nurse is Anna (his son Assaf) and she manages to conquer Shlomo’s heart by her charming personality and her special attitude toward life.

Queer @ Jewish International Film Festival 2012

The 2102 Jewish International Film Festival (JIFF) has a couple of Queer offerings.

‘Dead Europe‘

‘Yossi‘

Living Jewishly: A snapshot of a generation

Living Jewishly: A snapshot of a generation.

“Living Jewishly: A Snapshot of a Generation,” an at-times poignant, humorous, challenging and reaffirming collection of personal essays by Jewish 20- and 30-somethings, has just been published by Academic Studies Press.
Edited by Oy!Chicago blogger-in-chief and JUF digital communications manager Stefanie Pervos Bregman, the anthology probes a wide range of topics, including Orthodox dating; same-sex, interfaith relationships; discovering personal Jewish identity; connection — or lack thereof — to Israel; conversion; and what it means to be a young Jew in America today.
“At once confrontational, comforting and hilarious, this is the definitive ‘Who am I? and why am I?’ book for Jews of our generation,” actress and author Mayim Bialik said.