In partnership with Be’chol Lashon the LGBT Alliance presented a conversation titled, How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities. Sarah K. Spencer, Kenny Kahn, Jamie Wolfe and Dakotta Hunter were the four young adults that told their stories. Each of them were raised or currently live within an interfaith, multi-racial, lesbian, gay and/or transgender led households. They each spoke about their Jewish identities within the context of our Bay Area Jewish community.
Providing a visual opening to the conversation was a clip to the 2009 First Run Features documentary Off and Running. The film, directed by Nicole Opper as well as co-written with the central protagonist Avery Klein-Cloud, follows a complicated exploration of race, identity, Jewish faith and family. Avery, an African-American teenager with white Jewish lesbian mothers and two additional transracially adopted brothers, figures out in the film how to make sense of her complex identity.
“You take after me,” Tova said fondly in the film after witnessing her daughter’s pursuits of trying to make sense of her identity. Much like the film our conversation How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities prodded many of our collective preconceptions about nature, nurture and what our community really looks like.
A big thank you to the Jewish professionals that put the presentation together: Esther Gibian Fishman, Ann Gonski, Diane Tobin and Lisa Finkelstein.
More on Be'chol Lashon: http://www.bechollashon.org/
More on the film: http://offandrunningthefilm.com.
More on Federations' LGBT Alliance http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt
Providing a visual opening to the conversation was a clip to the 2009 First Run Features documentary Off and Running. The film, directed by Nicole Opper as well as co-written with the central protagonist Avery Klein-Cloud, follows a complicated exploration of race, identity, Jewish faith and family. Avery, an African-American teenager with white Jewish lesbian mothers and two additional transracially adopted brothers, figures out in the film how to make sense of her complex identity.
“You take after me,” Tova said fondly in the film after witnessing her daughter’s pursuits of trying to make sense of her identity. Much like the film our conversation How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities prodded many of our collective preconceptions about nature, nurture and what our community really looks like.
A big thank you to the Jewish professionals that put the presentation together: Esther Gibian Fishman, Ann Gonski, Diane Tobin and Lisa Finkelstein.
More on Be'chol Lashon: http://www.bechollashon.org/
More on the film: http://offandrunningthefilm.com.
More on Federations' LGBT Alliance http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt
In partnership with Be’chol Lashon the LGBT Alliance presented a conversation titled, How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities. Sarah K. Spencer, Kenny Kahn, Jamie Wolfe and Dakotta Hunter were the four young adults that told their stories. Each of them were raised or currently live within an interfaith, multi-racial, lesbian, gay and/or transgender led households. They each spoke about their Jewish identities within the context of our Bay Area Jewish community.
Providing a visual opening to the conversation was a clip to the 2009 First Run Features documentary Off and Running. The film, directed by Nicole Opper as well as co-written with the central protagonist Avery Klein-Cloud, follows a complicated exploration of race, identity, Jewish faith and family. Avery, an African-American teenager with white Jewish lesbian mothers and two additional transracially adopted brothers, figures out in the film how to make sense of her complex identity.
“You take after me,” Tova said fondly in the film after witnessing her daughter’s pursuits of trying to make sense of her identity. Much like the film our conversation How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities prodded many of our collective preconceptions about nature, nurture and what our community really looks like.
A big thank you to the Jewish professionals that put the presentation together: Esther Gibian Fishman, Ann Gonski, Diane Tobin and Lisa Finkelstein.
More on Be'chol Lashon: http://www.bechollashon.org/
More on the film: http://offandrunningthefilm.com.
More on Federations' LGBT Alliance http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt
Providing a visual opening to the conversation was a clip to the 2009 First Run Features documentary Off and Running. The film, directed by Nicole Opper as well as co-written with the central protagonist Avery Klein-Cloud, follows a complicated exploration of race, identity, Jewish faith and family. Avery, an African-American teenager with white Jewish lesbian mothers and two additional transracially adopted brothers, figures out in the film how to make sense of her complex identity.
“You take after me,” Tova said fondly in the film after witnessing her daughter’s pursuits of trying to make sense of her identity. Much like the film our conversation How Young Bay Area Jews Juggle Multiple Identities prodded many of our collective preconceptions about nature, nurture and what our community really looks like.
A big thank you to the Jewish professionals that put the presentation together: Esther Gibian Fishman, Ann Gonski, Diane Tobin and Lisa Finkelstein.
More on Be'chol Lashon: http://www.bechollashon.org/
More on the film: http://offandrunningthefilm.com.
More on Federations' LGBT Alliance http://www.jewishfed.org/community/lgbt
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