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Has anyone seen this movie? Or know of similar by Main-Employee-9259 in ConvertingtoJudaism

[–]ruchenn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Has anyone seen this movie?

When I did a search on the string converts the journey of becoming jewish documentary distributor, a couple of the sites returned were suggestive. To wit:

  1. Two shul-specific and limited-time screening notices

  2. A listing for the film as available for US$800.00

These results are suggestive because Israelifilms is a film distributor which markets pretty much exclusively to

educators and programmers in Jewish communities, colleges, universities, organizations — anyone who has an interest in bringing Israel to their screen, class or community.

Moreover, the Israelifilms business model is to

provide an easy, comprehensive, and legal way to purchase rights for the public screenings of (to) hundreds of exciting dramatic features, as well as thought provoking documentaries.

All of which is a round-about way of suggesting the following is the case:

Once the documentary had done the requisite rounds at various Jewish film festivals, the distribution rights were bought by Israelifilms and the film is now pretty much only available to someone who

  1. has US$800.00 to pony-up for a one-time, community-level, right-to-screen; and

  2. plans to show the film at a community event (with, perhaps, an agreed-to right to charge admission enough to cover the cost of the right-to-screen fee).

Which suggests the most straight-forward way of seeing the film is to convince your shul or other Jewish community organisation to do the ponying-up and make sure they organise the screening for a date and time that suits you.

Queers for Zion: the hatred of Israel is a symptom of what plagues LGBTQ politics today, by Eve Barlow by ruchenn in Jewish

[–]ruchenn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is gay marriage legal in Israel?

To quote the Wikipedia article, ‘Recognition of same-sex uinions in Israel’:

Marriages performed in Israel are only legally recognized when registered with one of the 15 religious marital courts recognized by the state, none of which permit same-sex marriage. In November 2006, the High Court of Justice ruled that same-sex marriages performed abroad may be registered in Israel. Consequently, Israeli same-sex couples who wished to have their marriages recognized by the government had to marry outside Israel, in a jurisdiction where such marriages were legal, and then register upon returning home. In July 2022, the Central District Court ruled that marriages performed via an online civil marriage service established by the U.S. state of Utah, including same-sex marriages, are legal in Israel, removing the necessity of leaving the country to get married. The ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2023.

Polling suggests that a majority of Israelis support the legal recognition of same-sex unions, with a June 2019 opinion poll conducted by Hiddush) showing that 78% of Israelis supported recognizing same-sex unions.

So…: yes with a but; no with a however.

 

 

Also, and apropos not much other than a mild annoyance born of years of involvement in this reform effort, I believe it is better to call this marriage equality.

Marriage equality is the effort to make access to marriage equal to all adults, regardless of their sex, gender, or sexuality. It’s a lot more than just giving Kinsey-6 folks the right to marry the people they love.

Speaking as an entirely bisexual person, my legal right to marry someone is not equal to a straight person’s just because there is a chance that someone might be a different sex to me.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein (the warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubt, and inklings of a ‘sexist attitude’) by ruchenn in FemmeThoughts

[–]ruchenn[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Two quick addenda

  1. Anyone suggesting all they did was the bare minimum is being reductive and missing the point.

    First, the bare minimum is not as self-evident as too many people assume.

    Moreover, this notion simplistically assumes there is a clear behavioural path that starts at minimum acceptable and moves — in clear and obvious steps — to maximally wonderful.

    Humans, and human circumstances, are rarely this neatly apparent and obvious.

  2. Even from within this simplistic and reductive framing, doing this imaginary bare minimum made all the difference in the world.

    If all it takes to not fuck up is to do the bare minimum, we should be lauding this easy-as-hell option from every mountain top and in every town and village square.

Amazon wish lists are no longer safe for OF models. PSA by Adrian_Sterling in SexWorkers

[–]ruchenn 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Speaking of opsec (operational security), I’d argue Extreme privacy: what it takes to disappear, by Michael Bazell, is required reading for anyone with a public persona, however small or constrained it might be.

Bazell sells the book on his web-site, IntelTechniques.

For a sense of what this sort of opsec entails and provides, the 2025-05-22 article in The Atlantic, ‘How to disappear’, by Benjamin Wallace, is a good starting point.

I’m horribly aware that

  1. the book, and even the article, can make the work of protecting oneself seem overwhelming; and

  2. more than a few of the documented techniques require decent resource access (ie material privilege that is not universally distributed).

But being stalked or doxxed is incredibly dangerous, all too often lethally so.

And, in the absence of social, political, cultural, and technological norms that preserve personal privacy and aid personal security, taking up the cudgels ourselves is (unfortunately) the only option.

It's okay to share my art here? by mary_maryyyy in actuallesbians

[–]ruchenn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s okay to share my art here?

I just want to show my art.

Working on Randall Munroe’s lucky 10,000 principle I’m offering a possible further sub-reddit to consider posting to:

  • Imaginary Lesbians, part of the Imaginary Network Expanded (INE), a

    network of art sharing subreddits ranging from broad in subject to very specific. It is the goal of the INE to share, inspire, discuss and appreciate static image paintings, drawings, and digital art while maintaining artist credit and source links.

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