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Esther Broner - Leader in Jewish
Feminism - Film
Esther
Broner: A Weave of Women
A
film by Lilly
Rivlin - 2013
Prolific
writer, passionate activist, dedicated scholar and pioneering feminist, Esther
Broner infused second wave feminism with a distinctive Jewish voice. In the
mid-1970s, as the women’s movement was vastly changing views on gender and
equality, Broner created a radical new Haggadah (the text for the Passover
service seder) that preserved but reimagined Jewish rituals and culture by
shifting the focus onto women. Transforming the male-centered service into a
powerful reclamation of women’s lives and stories, it became, under Broner’s
leadership, the basis for a Jewish feminist tradition that continues to today.
This inspiring documentary revisits Broner’s richly engaged political, artistic
and spiritual life through archival photos, video footage spanning several
decades, and interviews with family and friends, including Gloria Steinem,
Bella Abzug, Grace Paley, and other famous feminists. Drawing it’s title from
one of Broner’s celebrated novels, the film helps explore the intersection of
feminism and religion, and helps answer the question, is there room for
feminism and religious tradition in a traditionally male dominated space?
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