From the streets of Buenos Aires all the way to Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival with Ricardo Ceppi and Max Berliner in search of long lost buried stories. 🎬 #worldpremiere 📣 @festivalespde
Excellent program and engaging speakers and panelists at the UJA Federation of NY’s “We Were Slaves: the Jewish Community Unites Against Sex Trafficking” conference. A packed two-day event exploring the Jewish history and Jewish obligation to combat sex trafficking, the program provided essential information about modern day slavery and what can be done to stop it. A presentation and clips from the documentary-in-progress Laid to Rest: Buried Stories of the Jewish Sex Trade offered gripping historical perspectives on a shameful “buried” chapter of Jewish history and its unique characteristics, bringing to focus community action and cultural fight from within against the sex traders.
Presented by UJA-Federation of New York’s Task Force on Family Violence
Organized with: AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps Equality Now FEGS Health and Human Services Footsteps Jewish Child Care Association of New York (JCCA) The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan; Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) New York Board of Rabbis New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition Project Kesher Sanctuary for Families T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights Uri L’Tzedek