| A story of
three secular women’s journey into the Orthodox Jewish world.
As they grapple or embrace, their experiences throw pat answers about
tradition, community, and meaning into relief.
AWARDS
CINE Golden
Eagle
Gold Apple,
National Educational Media Network
1st Place,
Magnes Museum Jewish Video Competition
LINKS
San
Francisco Jewish Film Festival
Women
in Judiasm Journal
New
York Times Online
The
Jewish News Weekly
REVIEWS
Warm and
compelling. . .
—Kevin Thomas, LA Times
Gives
us neither stereotypes nor mush headed proselytizing … A
very personal and generous film about the search for meaning.
— San Francisco Weekly
With
intelligence, sympathy, nuance and grace, Sarah’s Daughters
raises provocative questions about the complexity of contemporary
women's lives and options. This film will help us teach all of our
daughters how to search for a meaningful life of their own.
— Judith Stacey, Contemporary Gender Studies, USC
One
of the most sensitive, judicious, and nuanced explorations of the
women’s relationships to Judaism. . . . it raises questions,
invites sympathy, and leaves open space for conversation.
— Lori Lefkowitz, Center for Jewish Women’s and
Gender Studies
This
is about real people with complicated lives—like all of
us—who demonstrate that making religious choices hardly ever
comes with total certainty and without regrets. . . . to have the
capacity to imagine what a different, but equally valid expression of
Judaism feels like—Sarah's Daughters guides us in learning
some of the necessary empathic skills which would make pluralism
possible.
— Vanessa L. Ochs, author, Words on Fire
A
wonderful documentary about Judaism and women's lives
today—and how the two fit and don't fit together. . . . The
film has a rich texture and tremendous warmth. . . . I watched it with
my wife and daughter and we all gave it two thumbs up.
— Rodger Kamenetz, author, The Jew and the Lotus
Jarmel’s
provocative film suggests that contemporary Jewish women
can’t simply go home again, but most find ways to build new
homes on traditional foundations.
— Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, Union of American
Hebrew Congregations
SCREENINGS
American
Cinematheque
Council for
the Advancement of Jewish Education
General
Assembly--American Jewish Federations
Houston Jewish
Book Fair
Jewish Museum
of San Francisco
Judas Magnes
Museum
Mayan: The
Jewish Women’s Project
National
Foundation of Jewish Culture
National
Havurah Conference
National
Museum of American Jewish History
Dozens of
Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Federations, synagogues, Hillels and
women’s groups, around the country.
Colleges
& universities around the world
FESTIVALS
Cinequest (San
Jose Film Festival)
Doctober
International Documentary Film Festival (IDA)
Women's Music
Festival
Religion Today
Film Festival (Italy)
Rocky Mountain
Women's Film Festival
San Francisco
International LGBT Festival
Women in the
Director's Chair Festival
Bangladesh
Short Film Festival
Jewish Film
Festivals in: Australia, Buffalo, Denver, Detroit, Miami, Montreal,
Portland, Saint Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Seattle,
Toronto, Tucson, Virginia, Washington DC, Saint Louis, and Maine.
BROADCASTS
American
Public Television
Danish
Television
Israeli
Television
Slovenia
Television
WGBH- Boston
WNET-New York
City
KCSM-Women of
Vision Series
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