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The Villager | Historic E. 6th 'tenement synagogue' reopens The Villager BY LESLEY SUSSMAN | The historic, more than 100-year-old Anshe Meseritz Synagogue, which was renovated to make room for luxury condominiums, reopened its doors in the East Village this month after a four-year hiatus. The original synagogue was ... |
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Rescue workers alerted after shots heard in Matmidim synagogue in Beitar, south of Jerusalem.
David Rosenberg, 26/02/17 22:03
A man was found dead in a synagogue in the predominantly haredi city of Beitar Illit, south of Jerusalem Sunday evening.
The grisly discovery was made after gunshots were reported in the Matmidim synagogue on Darchei Ish Street.
Witnesses who heard the shots notified authorities, and within minutes emergency responders from United Hatzalah had arrived on the scene.
A man in his early 30s was found mortally wounded inside the synagogue. Emergency medical teams declared him dead at the scene.
The victim, a resident of Beitar Illit and father of five, was found with no vital signs, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
Police say there is no evidence the incident was related to either criminal activity or terrorism. The initial investigation suggests the fatal wound was self-inflicted.
The victim did not possess a firearm, and it is believed the weapon used in the shooting was taken from a guard standing not far from the synagogue.
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The top of a limestone column discovered in the Western Galilee may pinpoint the location of the ancient village of Peqiin, where the Galilean sages hid in a cave from the Romans 1,800 years ago, Israeli antiquities experts say.
The stone, found upside-down during a renovation and conservation project, is engraved with two Hebrew inscriptions that experts believe were written to honor donors to the ancient synagogue that once stood there.
The Talmudic and Midrashic sources tell of the Galilean sages that lived in Peqiin, including Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who hid from the Romans in a cave, said Yoav Lerer of the Israel Antiquities Authority, in a press release.
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However, there are those who disagree with the identification of the location of Peqiin.
I believe that these inscriptions will add an important tier to our knowledge about the Jewish settlement in the village of Peqiin during the Roman and Byzantine periods.
The column was discovered amid the rehabilitation and conservation of the ancient synagogue and a visitor center at Peqiin and nearby Beit Zinati. The visitor center will tell the 2-millennia-long history of the Jews in the area, as well as the story of the villages oldest Jewish family, the Zinatis, one of whose descendants, Margalit Zinati, still lives in the house next door to the synagogue.
"Peqiin is one of the most significant sites in the Galilee, and is a place where there has always been a Jewish presence, said Zeev Elkin, minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, in the statement. It is a great honor for me that during my tenure in office such an important discovery has been made that tells this 2,000-year-old story of the Land of Israel.
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This is a historical discovery of unparalleled importance, said Uriel Rosenboym, director of Beit Zinati.
No one can argue with the written artifact. There was an ancient synagogue here, and the synagogue was built in its current form in recent centuries.
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Sarah Aroeste is passionate about two things, her love of Ladino music and sharing her culture with others. But thats not the only reason she was picked to perform five times during AJMF8. Aroeste brings so much to this years festival including her diverse cultural perspective, said AJMF Executive Director, Russell Gottschalk.
Aroestes life revolved around music throughout high school and college, where she trained in classical opera. However, it was not until she moved to Israel that her interest in Ladino music grew, thanks in part to her music coach, who shared her Sephardic background.
Upon returning to the United States, Aroeste continued to perform classical music while integrating Ladino music each performance. The outcome was a success. I had people come up to me and say that was their favorite part of the performance, said Aroeste. Thats when she realized Ladino music, not opera, was her true calling and decided to pursue it as a full-time career.
Ladino is a form of Judaea-Spanish or Judaismo language that originated in Spain. After the Castilians kicked out Jewish inhabitants in the fifteenth century, they immigrated to the Ottoman Empire and Ladino became frozen in time.
Aroeste receives her inspiration from various music genres including Israeli. I really like Israeli music because the artists understand how to navigate between their ethnicity and music. However, I was also brought up on American music, rock and roll, contemporary, electronica, jazz, and pop, said Aroeste. She is proud of her identity and attributes her passion for Ladino music to her ethnic background. Ladino contains a beautiful language and music, and I have been very fortunate to express myself through it for the past 15 years. said Aroeste.
Her concerts incorporate both entertainment and education as she informs audience members of her rich Sephardic background. You dont go into Ladino to become rich, but I love Ladino music and sharing it with people. Music crosses so many borders and Ladino is no exception. It is multifaceted and the language and themes are universal, said Aroeste. Ladino is not dead and the Jewish community can do so much to preserve it. After all, you cant understand Jewish history without Sephardic culture.
Aroeste is glad to be in this years Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. She will be performing at International Night, Ladino Shabbat Jam, Ladino Musical Purim Party, Purim Family Concert and at Epstein for a private event connecting children to Ladino and Sephardic music.
There are countless artists participating in this years AJMF and each one is sure to entertain. Gottschalk noted that planning the AJMF is very detailed, we have so many talented artists we would like to invite but have limited slots. In programming Aroeste we wanted to take full advantage of all she had to offer. Aroeste became a natural selection for Gottschalk due to her international background and recently released childrens album.
Aroeste enjoys working with Jewish and non-Jewish audiences and applauds Gottschalk for booking her for the AJMF. It allows various community members to gain exposure to so many different cultures and promotes the importance of Jewish diversity for everyone.
Sarah Aroeste is scheduled for five performances during the AJMF. (Photo credit: Dror-Forshee Photography)
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Klezmer, the Eastern European musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews, is constantly evolving. Played by musicians called klezmorim at weddings and other celebrations, it has enjoyed a world revival in recent years. The musician and researcher Walter Zev Feldman, an expert on Jewish and Ottoman Turkish music, is Visiting Professor of Music at NYU Abu Dhabi. As a performer, he has released the CDs Jewish Klezmer Music and Khevrisa: European Klezmer Music. His latest book, Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is out from Oxford University Press. Recently Professor Feldman shared with The Forwards Benjamin Ivry some notions about what is, and what is not, klezmer:
**Benjamin Ivry: How much fun is authentic klezmer music? At an Ashkenazi wedding celebration, you describe music played before the chuppah as an invitation for the souls of the dead parents to come[an] almost necrophiliac fantasygiven even more scope when the community was facing an existential threat.
Walter Zev Feldman: In Eastern Europe among Jews, there had to be a balance of the serious penitential with the joyous, so a wedding among Jews in East Europe has very little to do with the concept of a wedding of Jews in America or Israel. It had to begin in a very sad and tragic way, otherwise it would have been considered ill-omened for the future. You had to earn your happiness; it wasnt just a given.
One klezmer tradition included a penitential song about how the brides happy life in her family home was over and responsibilities of marriage and childbearing were upon her. Was this gloomy prediction for women made because only males wrote and performed klezmer music at the time?
No, I dont think thats relevant. This is a confluence of rabbinic thinking about weddings with a penitential aspect in the old Ashkenaz tradition. There are also several gentile folk cultures from Turkey to Russia that emphasize sorrow for the bride. This question has never, ever been researched before, so it needs more study.
You explore what have been called moralishe niggunim or melodies of a high moral character, which although not as weepy as other klezmer tunes, nevertheless had plenty of high seriousness. Is the subject of klezmer inevitably somber due to the Holocaust and other factors and has klezmer become a funereal art for those interested in its past?
I did not mean to give that impression, actually. Its interesting that you read it that way. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is part one, the history of the music of the klezmorim into the Shoah, not about the immigration. My next book, Untold Stories, will show the aspect of the klezmer tradition which is actually kept alive. Its not entirely a dead thing.
You note that traditionally, klezmorim did not accompany singers and considered themselves superior to vocalists. Doesnt this contradict much of world instrumental tradition, in which musicians aspire to the expressivity of the human voice? What was wrong with singers?
There was nothing wrong with the chazzan. In Europe, the klezmer never accompanied the chazzan, a professional singer who performed with no accompanists. It was taboo because the rabbis forbade singing at weddings. The Ashkenazim were the only Jewish culture documented where women were not allowed to sing at weddings. That was obviously because of moral reasons, where rabbis for centuries were telling men they should not listen to the voice of women. But in other Jewish cultures, this was not taken as seriously.
The Argentine-born Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman has claimed, Klezmer is not Jewish music. Would you agree?
I have no idea what he is talking about. Giora is a good musician from a klezmer family, but he has done zero research so you have to discount what he says, it has nothing to do with reality.
The Shirim Klezmer Orchestra released a klezmer-style version of Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Suite. If Tchaikovsky is added, can any room be left for klezmer?
I think that [crossover] fashion has ended. I dont think thats going anywhere. Klezmer music was one of the most stable features of Jewish music, with a class of professional musicians who developed it for 400 years. 400 years is no small thing.
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Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday unveiled new directives they said would end discrimination against ultra-Orthodox Sephardic girls, many of whom are rejected from largely Ashkenazi institutions due to their ethnic background.
Dozens of Sephardic students, primarily those applying to the Beis Yaakov network of high schools, remain at home every year after being refused admission into schools, in an issue that has plagued the ultra-Orthodox community for years.
Critics charge the schools maintain non-official quotas of Sephardic students, stemming from endemic racism against those whose families originate in Arab or Muslim lands.
Many of the schools deny the allegations of discrimination while insisting they should be allowed to admit or reject students at their discretion. Countering claims of discrimination, some Ashkenazi schools point to the parallel Shas school system in place since 1984, arguing the Sephardic education framework is responsible for absorbing those students.
Sitting alongside Deri during the weekly Shas faction meeting, Bennett said the new regulations, effective immediately, would force ultra-Orthodox schools to begin the registration process earlier in the year. That directive would give the ministry and the students more time to find an alternate school or force the institution to accept them, he said. He also promised transparency, saying the schools would be obligated to explain why they rejected each student and an appeals panel would be set up in the ministry to oversee complaints by parents.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (L) speaks with Education Minister Nafatli Bennett during the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Jerusalem, October 31, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
No girl will be discriminated against due to ethnicity, period, said Bennett. This is a problem that shouldnt have existed in the State of Israel, he added.
Deri, the Shas party leader, said his initial proposal to force regional registration of all students was rejected due to internal coalition sparring.
But he lauded the compromise, saying for us, the Shas faction, today is a holiday.
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New Guineas multicolor birds-of-paradise, all 39species of which were first photographed in the wild in 2013, served as the inspiration for Goga Ashkenazis fall collection.For her first runway show at Milan Fashion Week, which was hosted at the prestigious Casa degli Atellani where Leonardo da Vinci livedwhile painting The Last Supper, the designer reworked all the signature houses codes, including draping and pliss, for a lineup that was both beautifully crafted and elegant.The birds flamboyant plumage echoed in the hints of bright colorsgreen, turquoise and fuchsiapaired with neutrals on the sumptuous evening gowns that combined pliss chiffon with floating silk charmeuse panels.
Illustrations of birds-of-paradise from the Encyclopedia Britannica were reproduced on a silk fabric with lamthatwas crafted into chic dresses, including a floor-length one-shoulder style cinched at the waist with a long ribbon.Slipdresses, including a printed tulle style, were layered over lightweight turtleneck sweaters, while a draped silk gown embellished with flocked birds was cut from a pattern conceived by Madeleine Vionnet herself.
Althoughthe collection was heavy on evening attire, daytime options included impeccable suiting, including a blazer with an incorporated capelet, as well as oversize shearling biker jackets infused with a cool, urban attitude.In keeping with hersummer runway show,Ashkenazi introduced a few denim pieces, including a maxiskirt, which actually featured the same artisanal construction of her gowns.The collection exuded luxury and high-end craftsmanship, demonstrating that relocating the show to Milan, where the Vionnet atelier and headquarters are based, mayhave been a winning strategic move for the brand.
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(This is Part Two of Clinton Riddles profile of Team Israel. For Part One, click here)
This isn't Jerry Weinstein's first rodeo. He'd probably be the first to tell you that the game is the same, regardless of the forum in which it's being played. If he felt any pressure, you'd never know it.
After a HOF college career spent primarily with Sacramento City College, coaching with Team USA in the 1987 Pan American Games (carrying a roster full of future pros), as well as the '92 and '96 US baseball teams in the Olympics (winning a bronze in '96), winning a gold with the US team in the 2005 Maccabiah Games, and spending the last ten years in the pro ranks in multiple capacities (he will manage the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats in 2017), there is little he hasn't seen on a diamond.
He's even written several books, perhaps most notably Baseball Coach's Survival Guide in 1998 and The Complete Handbook of Coaching Catchers in 2014, and both were well-received. His work with catching prospect Wilin Rosario after the 2012 season resulted in his passed ball totals being cut by more than half and a .987 fielding percentage in 2013. Rosario's bat was expected to play, easily, but the improvement in his defense made him an All-Star caliber catcher.
Coach Weinstein made the trip to Israel in 2007, and bears fond memories from the time he spent there.
My first trip (to Israel) was in 2005 for the Maccabiah Games, and we were there for about a month. It was a fabulous experience, said Coach Weinstein. The group of kids we took were really good kids; I liked them. And then to experience everything there is that goes with a trip to Israel...it was just a great experience.
One of the strengths of this roster is the quickness with which they came together, something he noticed during the qualifying round in New York, just a few months ago.
This team is a little bit different from the team we took to Brooklyn for the qualifier, but that team, the chemistry was immediate, he recalled, and I expect that will be the case with the current team.
Everybody who's going on this trip is excited about doing it.
Along with Coach Weinstein, Tom Gamboa has joined the staff permanently after having filled in for another coach who had to withdraw due to a family illness. Also on the staff is Jerry Narron (third base coach), Nate Fish (first base coach), Andrew Lorraine (pitching coach) and Alon Leichman (bullpen coach), a group of coaches with decades of experience from which to draw.
Coach Weinstein is seemingly ready for anything, and will look to utilize his pitchers as efficiently as possible. Our strength is going to be pitching match-ups; we're not going to be running anyone out there for high pitch counts, Coach Weinstein offered.
However, his approach beyond that is simple. Strategy-wise, you just put people in positions where they can be successful, and not ask them to do something they can't do.
Asked about his general approach going into the WBC as it begins in South Korea, Coach Weinstein kept it simple. Well, hopefully we run into a few cookies, and keep the opposing batters off-balance with pitching match-ups, he said. That's been our approach in the qualifier, and hopefully it will work in the WBC.
The story of Team Israel is, of course, making the rounds on news sites, blogs, podcasts, and social media platforms. Some will follow the team during their time in the WBC, others will seemingly forget why this particular story is so much more important than the average sports fare.
A prominent figure among baseball scribes, Jonathan Mayo took the subject to heart. There have been Jewish baseball players perhaps for as long as the professional game has existed, but while some players were observant or at least knowledgeable about their heritage, Mayo found that many knew little about the culture that binds them all. A number of the Jewish-American players on Team Israel had never taken their taglit, often referred to as the 'birthright' trip to the Holy Land.
The germ for the idea came from the 2012 qualifiers, but they didn't qualify, recalled Mayo. It was more because I have had conversations with numerous Jewish baseball players over the years, and many of them embraced being known as a Jewish baseball player, but their identity beyond that was negligible.
And I can't think of a better way to explore being known as a Jewish anything than going to Israel.
This didn't come together overnight, either. We came close a year ago to pulling off a trip, he added. Smaller trip, fewer players. And it just didn't work out for a bunch of reasons.
In the process of putting that together, I was put in touch with Jeff Aeder, Mayo continued. He lives in Chicago, and he's starting up the Jewish Baseball Museum. He's got the largest collection of Jewish baseball memorabilia in the world, and he wants to display it. Mr. Aeder, Mayo added, was one of the initial investors in the planned documentary.
A year later, Israel makes it through the qualifier. Well, Jeff Aeder was having dinner with Ron Dermer, the Israel Ambassador to the United States, he mentioned. Ron is a big sports guy, particularly football, and about a year ago they brought a bunch of NFL Hall-of-Famers to Israel, and it got a lot of publicity.
Well, Ron kind of liked the idea.
This all led to the a moment during dinner between Aeder and Ambassador Dermer: wouldn't it be great to bring some of the players to Israel before they go to Korea? And the idea got legs, as they say.
When they were looking for ways to publicize the idea, that's when Jeff called me, said Mayo, and the next thing I knew, I was on a plane with my friend Jeremy and his partner from Ironbound Films, and we went on the tour with (the players).
And so Mr. Mayo, along with Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy Newberger of Ironbound Films, went to work recording the trip for their latest documentary Heading Home, an appropriately-named film that follows these young men as they experience the culture first-hand.
It started out in much the same way as one might expect: meeting with reporters, signing autographs for fans, tours to local sites of interest, etc. While the players were at a ground-breaking ceremony for only the second baseball field in Israel, a Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem, killing four and wounding fifteen before he himself was killed. Not in the vicinity of the players, but certainly a jarring occurrence nevertheless.
Still, the overall impression made upon the players seemed to be one that reinforced existing faith and laying a foundation for others. One thing that really stood out for me was how the players connected with the country, with the history, and particularly with the people, remembered Mayo, and I think that when they go and play in Korea, there's a whole other level of connection among the teammates now because of that.
On a personal level, he added, for my son to get to see all of this come together, and experience it with these players, was...
Mayo paused, briefly. I can't really verbalize how important that was, to me.
Now, as Team Israel's players are arriving in Seoul, they understand that they are playing for a bit more than a berth in the next round; that the thoughts of the fans watching this tournament are concerned with more than just the score.
The hope is that these players have a greater sense of purpose as they represent
Israel's first foray into this world-wide competition; that they have a greater understanding of their own faith and heritage; and that the children who will take the field on the brand-new baseball diamond at Beit Shemesh will remember this team for more than its talent.
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February 26, 2017 Sujata Days Hollywood career was transformed by a tweet.
It was 2011 Twitters early years and she had spotted a call online for auditions for a new web series. Ms. Day, frustrated after four years of commercials and bit parts that often caricatured her Indian American heritage, jumped at the chance.
Within a week, Day had nabbed the role of CeCe, best friend and sidekick of the lead character in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, a YouTube comedy short. A month later, she was on set with Issa Rae, who starred in, wrote, produced, and directed the show. By 2012, the series had won a Shorty Award and drawn support from players like star singer Pharrell Williams.
What a web series can do in terms of visibility, especially for women of color its really amazing, Day says. It changed my life.
Days experience demonstrates how indispensable the Internet has become for diversity in Hollywood.
The Academy Awards Sunday night will again drive a discourse about the value of diversity both on- and off-screen as well as in society. And while the Oscars made conspicuous headway this year in addressing the ethnic and racial homogeneity of their nominees, less clear has been the progress made in promoting women at all levels of cinema and television.
Data show that opportunities remain largely limited and stereotyped across the board. But online platforms, industry experts say, are providing female and minority actors and filmmakers a means to break out of those boxes.
Social media helps budding filmmakers and actors build networks. Sites like YouTube and Vimeo serve as repositories where employers can quickly access an actor or directors previous work. Theyre also avenues for sharing original content that might otherwise never see the light of day.
The new platforms, experts say, have upped the demand for material, opening doors throughout the industry.
What were seeing is a lot more of a lot more, says Jocelyn Diaz, executive vice president of programming for EPIX, a premium cable service. There are more opportunities out there, and more opportunities for women.
When she first arrived in Los Angeles three years ago, Marie Jamora would have disagreed.
She had come to the United States to be with her now-fianc, leaving behind a 15-year career directing, producing, and writing in the Philippines. Despite her background in the business, Ms. Jamora says, being a female minority added to the already considerable challenges facing anyone overseas career or not who wants to break into Hollywood.
You get the best of the best in this town, she says. And there are not as many work opportunities for female directors.
Of the top 200 highest-grossing movies released in 2015, women directed 7.7 percent, according to the most recent Hollywood Diversity Report, released this month by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 2016, women comprised 17 percent of executive producers, 13 percent of writers, 5 percent of cinematographers, and 3 percent of composers, the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University found.
This month, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported that their 16-month investigation of hiring practices in Hollywood found that major studios consistently discriminated against female directors. The commission is now in talks to resolve the issue. If the settlement negotiations fail, it may resort to legal action, Deadline reports.
Such findings show how deeply ingrained gender norms remain in Hollywood, says Sarah Kozloff, a professor of film at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
There seem to be certain occupations that are just gendered male and female in the cultural mindset, she says. You'll have famous women editors like Dede Allen, but very few women [directors of photography]. You'll have women in hair and makeup, but sound design seems to have just been colonized by men.
And this has been true essentially since the silent era, she says.
The Internet has started to change that. In the past five years, the ubiquity of YouTube, combined with the growing dominance of video-on-demand (VOD) sites like Netflix and Hulu have provided a pipeline for faces and voices once shut out of or sidelined in film and television.
Ilana Glazers and Abbi Jacobsons Broad City, about two Jewish American women in their 20s navigating life in New York City, began as a web series that the pair had independently produced and starred in from 2009 to 2011. In 2014, Comedy Central picked up the show, which has since been nominated for more than a half dozen awards.
Transparent, the Jill Soloway-helmed web television series about a family who discovers their father has always identified as a woman, premiered on Amazon Video in 2014. In 2015 it became the first show produced by a VOD service to receive a Golden Globe for best series.
And Ms. Rae, who had created and starred in Awkward Black Girls, has partially adapted the series into HBOs Insecure. The show has earned her a Golden Globe nod for best actress, among other accolades.
The trick, industry insiders say, is to have an enterprising attitude.
I see an entrepreneurial economy emerging, says Amy Baer, a 25-year industry veteran who is now president and chief executive of Gidden Media, a development and production company in Los Angeles. Writers, directors are not at a disadvantage anymore [just] because they are not represented by an agency.
You dont have to wait for someone to greenlight your idea. You can release it on the Internet, Jamora adds. You can make sure you have current work and youre not just sitting around waiting for a break.
Day, the actress, has a recurring role on Insecure. But she now also writes, produces, and stars in her own material. She has in motion five different film and television projects. All give voice to the female and minority experience.
A lot of the roles I was auditioning for four, five years ago were like, medical assistant No. 2, Day says. When you can be busy with your own work and your own writing and creations, you dont have to rely on other people to get you the job.
In recent years, advocates have used the attention around the Academy Awards to urge studios and executives to recognize the value of diversity in the industry.
Despite the data and EEOC findings, observers say, Hollywood has begun to respond.
This years Oscars boasts a diverse catalog of nominees, including Ava DuVernay for best documentary (feature) for 13th and Allison Schroeder for best adapted screenplay for Hidden Figures.
Stars like Reese Witherspoon have also taken initiative to produce more stories for and about women. Her production company, Pacific Standard, is behind the HBO miniseries, Big Little Lies, which premiered Sunday and stars Ms. Witherspoon alongside Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley.
Just last week, the Sundance Institute and Women in Film announced ReFrame, a collaboration with 50 Hollywood leaders to advance gender equality.
I am starting to see an industry that is awakening to making a priority for saying, This is a movie to have a woman on it. Or, This is a Hispanic story, we should find a Hispanic writer to write it, Ms. Baer says.
Some are concerned that progress has been too concentrated in television. Marvels decision to hire Patty Jenkins to direct a big-budget film like Won
der Woman is only tokenism if it remains a one-off, says Professor Kozloff at Vassar.
Because television shows are lower budget and because they are so [much] more numerous, they will never quite have the cachet of the big-budget feature with major stars, she says. Will women be allowed to graduate, so to speak, from the streaming distribution channels or television to features?
Day and Jamora, however, arent too worried. The television world today is full of opportunities for those ready to take them, both say.
Ive been constantly been surrounded by a utopia of women in color in charge, Day says. Its been amazing.
I think its the golden age of American television right now, Jamora adds. There are a million channels looking for directors. I really want to pursue that.
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