UK Challah Queen

Very glad to share that UK’s largest Jewish periodical, the Jewish News, has published a lovely piece about Sabbath Queen!

Recapping The Golden Bachelor on Fake The Nation!

This week I got to discuss the first 2 episodes of The Golden Bachelor on the Fake the Nation podcast, hosted by the incredible Negin Farsad! This new, seniors-oriented season of the franchise has much to discuss, and we got into all of it - hearing aids, elderly making out, late in life fitness, and whether or not women who’ve survived menopause should be asked to sleep in bunk beds (the answer is no).

Listen Here! Or wherever you get your podcasts.

HEY UK!

Hello London and Manchester! I’m crazy excited to announce Anatevka will have its UK premiere in November, at the 2023 UK Jewish Film Festival, where it will show 4 times in 2 cities!! I can’t wait.

Getting to share this piece, which is so personal for me, around the world, is a joy.

Click here to buy tickets.

Canvas Compendium

Canvas, one of very few funders focused on Arts & Culture in Jewish life, has its own online magazine, the Canvas Compendium. They regularly invite artists they admire to write about the Jewish artists they love, and for their most recent issue they chose me!

It was an honor and joy to kvell (praise / talk up) and write about the creators who inspire my practice. You can read it here.

Material / Inheritance in the Washington Post!!

Material / Inheritance, an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Maryland featuring work from New Jewish Culture Fellows, opened this weekend. I could not feel prouder or luckier to have my work included.

What a thrill to see the show highlighted in the Washington Post!!

Material / Inheritance

This show will be the first ever art exhibit showcasing the work of the New Jewish Culture Fellows, and I’m so thrilled to have my work included!! It’s no exaggeration to say that NJCF has dramatically changed my work and life for the better.

All the thanks to NJCF, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, and Leora Fridman, for her fantastic curation. See you there!!

The Box

Coming Very Soon! The Box is a 2-person exhibition with works by me and the brilliant Anne Mourier, a feminist, visual conversation about our faiths of origin. Many thanks to Aaron Rosen and the Luce Center for the Arts and Religion.

Creating this show with Anne, an artist and human I hugely admire, has been a joy.

Anatevka Premiere at the 2023 New York Jewish Film Festival!!

What a night!! This last Wednesday my newest short film, Anatevka, had its US premiere at Lincoln Center, and I am still totally blissed out. The film showed on a night of short films by female directors.

My young cast got to see their phenomenal performances on that iconic big screen, and the audience really connected with the film. As filmmakers, we can’t really know how our projects will land with folks outside our loved ones until they show publicly. Hearing the laughter as my film played in that big room was a really special, gratifying experience.

More exciting Anatevka news coming soon!! Stay tuned.

My incredible young movie stars posing at the festival.

Hadar Ahuvia, my fabulous star and collaborator, on the big screen.

No one does dapper like my husband.

The Q & A on stage after the screenings. Such an honor to chat with these remarkable filmmakers!

I’m on Fake the Nation with legendary drag queen and trans activist Eureka O’Hara!!

Dreamy does not begin to describe how I feel about appearing as a guest this week on the Fake the Nation podcast with Negin Farsad. We were joined by drag legend EUREKA O’HARA!!!

Eureka O’Hara, people. The queen you know and love from Rupaul’s Drag Race, from All Stars, and from We’re Here on HBO!!!

Getting to chat about current events with these two legendary ladies was such a blast!!

Click here to listen to the episode.

Anatevka at the 2023 New York Jewish Film Festival!!

HUGE NEWS!!!! My new short film that I wrote and directed, Anatevka, will premiere at Lincoln Center, on January 18th, as part of the New York Jewish Film Festival!!!

Lincoln Center and/or Jewish Museum members can buy tickets starting Dec 13th, and they’re available to everyone on Dec 15th.

Anatevka will be showing on a night celebrating shorts directed by female-identified filmmakers.

Hope to see you there!!!!

A Fabulous Exhibition Opening in Vienna

I’m just back from Vienna, where I attended the opening for “100 Misunderstandings About And Among Jews,” at the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna. My video piece, Dangerous Opinions, is on view, and challenges the misunderstanding that we cannot publicly criticize Israel.

I love this show!! It’s thoughtful, smart, includes an incredible selection of works, and fearlessly engages with some of the most fraught issues in contemporary Jewish life. Having my work included really is a thrill.

From top to bottom:

Me and Caitlin Gura, one of the exhibition’s wonderful curators.

With dreamboat/dream date/dream husband/velvet assassin, Aamir Wyne.

Visitors watching my piece.