Amy Stone
These voices undermine the mythic triumphalism of the Six-Day War.
“Censored Voices”: Intimate Conversations with Six-Day War Soldiers in a New Film
Author: Amy Stone
Sacred Rights in a Time of Terror
Amy Stone
Sacred Rights, Sacred Song says: Women need to be treated as fully equal citizens of the Jewish State NOW. This is not a luxury for peaceful times.
Get Thee to “Gett”
Amy Stone
“Gett” may be the catalyst that will build national support for giving women a voice under divorce law.
New York Jewish Film Festival Opener: “The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer”
Amy Stone
The ghost of Isaac Bashevis Singer got lucky. Two Israeli filmmakers—male – have handed the master of Yiddish tales a posthumous grand slam.
A Daughter’s Take on Her Red Father
Amy Stone
“Red Father,” a new documentary by Israeli-born sculptor Tova Beck-Friedman, tells the story of Bernard Ades, American Communist, through the voice of his daughter Janet Ades.
May Her Brisket Be for a Blessing
Amy Stone
Maybe our next Girls’ Night In will be the recipes our mothers scribbled down for us. Recipes from the ‘50s and ‘60s when families stayed home for dinner and, hopefully, dessert was more than canned fruit cocktail embedded in Jello.
‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ – The women’s movement gets a kick-ass documentary
Amy Stone
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” is the women’s movement film we’ve been waiting for. We just didn’t know it.
Diving Into Charges of Rabbi Barry Freundel’s Voyeurism
Amy Stone
O Rabbi Barry Freundel! If indeed you did this deed, how could you?
Meet on Screen the First Woman Rabbi
Amy Stone
How do you make a documentary about Regina Jonas, the world’s first woman rabbi, when only one photograph survives?
Losing My Virginity: Of Romance and Property Rights
Amy Stone
If only Therese Shechter’s film “How to Lose Your Virginity” had been around when I was a college student obsessing about “saving it.”