Shoshy Ciment
By Shoshy Ciment
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Life Only 8% Of Hollywood Directors Are Women. A Jerusalem Film Festival Is Trying To Change That.
Paula Kweskin does not back down easily. When “Honor Diaries,” her 2013 film that broke the silence on “honor violence” against women and girls across the globe, was censored in certain countries and college campuses, she did the reasonable thing. She started a film festival. The Censored Women’s Film Festival (CWFF) was founded on this…
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Life I Was 21 When I Made My First Non-Jewish Friend
I was 21 years old when I made my first non-Jewish friend. It was the first day of the spring semester of my junior year, and I was settling into the newsroom where I would be interning for the next three months. After some introductions and a brief tour, I met my fellow intern, a…
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