Events this week include several movies

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Events of Jewish interest include limited screenings of several movies, but we'll start with tomorrow's job fair in Staten Island.

Staten Island Job Fair & Networking Event

The Staten Island JCC in partnership with F.E.G.S Health & Human Services System and the Orthodox Union’s OU Job Board will be bringing together local Employers, Employment Professionals, Financial Experts and Community Schools,Community Members and Community Agencies to network,present employment opportunities and offer assistance to business owners.

Job Fair 2009

THIS IS A FREE EVENT SO "BUY/PURCHASE" YOUR FREE TICKETS NOW! THERE IS NO CHARGE

Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Address: 1466 Manor Road, Staten Island, NY

Now on to the movies. Also tomorrow, Heeb Magazine founding editor and former creative director Nancy Schwartzman's documentary film The Line will be screened at Gallery Bar followed by a discussion with a panel that will include the filmmaker. From Paradgm Shifts's Facebook page: PARADIGM SHIFT: NYC'S FEMINIST COMMUNITY & SAFER Proudly Present

SEX. CONSENT. POWER. PLEASURE.
Film, Conversation, & Community

TIMEOUT NY'S CRITICS' PICK!
http://newyork.timeout.com/events/city-picks/314715/sex-consent-power-pleasure

THE LINE, documentary screening
see trailer http://thelinemovie.org
&
Panel discussion featuring:

NANCY SCHWARTZMAN, Filmmaker
ERIN BURROWS, Students Active For Ending Rape
JOSEPH SAMALIN, Men Can Stop Rape, Campus Strength Coordinator
IGNACIO RIVERA, Sex educator, Organizer & Performance Artist

Join our special honored guests including former Paradigm Shift event speakers, feminist authors, activists, and thought leaders

Support by Identity House, Amy Mitten Photography, NOW NYS YFTF

Attendees are welcome to discuss & document their thoughts on consent for the "Where is Your Line?" campaign

When: TUES, DEC. 1st
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: In the heart of the Feminist District
Gallery Bar
120 Orchard Street, between Delancey St. and Rivington St.
Subway: Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z), Grand St (B, D), 2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V)

Cost: $7 if you RSVP before Dec. 1st, 12:00 noon / Students FREE / $10 at door
RSVP (include full name and guests): rsvp@paradigmshiftnyc.com

PARTICIPATE:
Calling all progressives! Promote this event and we’ll help promote your organization!
Email: JWeis@paradigmshiftnyc.com

THE LINE Synopsis:
http://thelinemovie.org
A one night stand far from home goes terribly wrong. As the filmmaker unravels her experience, she decides to confront her attacker. Told through a “sex-positive” lens, THE LINE is a 24 minute documentary about a young woman – the filmmaker- who is raped, but her story isn’t cut and dry. Not a “perfect victim,” the filmmaker confronts her attacker, recording the conversation with a hidden camera. Sex workers, survivors and activists discuss justice, accountability and today’s “rape culture.” The film asks the question: where is the line defining consent? THE LINE was completed in July 2009.

ABOUT NANCY SCHWARTZMAN:
Nancy Schwartzman is a filmmaker, writer and activist working for over thirteen years to create community solutions to combat sexual violence and promote public debate. THE LINE is a personal documentary that explores consent from a sex-positive point of view. With an emphasis on interactivity and dialogue, she launched the accompanying “where is your line?” campaign. Prior to THE LINE, she produced the award-winning short film OCEAN AVENUE.

Nancy is the founder of NYC-Safestreets.org an online initiative noted by The New York Times, Gawker, The Village Voice and The Daily News to engage community organizations and businesses to create safer routes for pedestrians, especially women. From 2002- 2005 she was a founding editor and Creative Director of HEEB Magazine. For six years Nancy was the Program Officer at the Fund for Jewish Documentary Film. She has curated short film festivals at the Pioneer Theater, Berlin, London and Tel Aviv. Her essays have been featured in The Independent, HEEB, Sh’ma and Plenty Magazine.

Nancy lectures extensively on college campuses on the topic of consent and healthy sexual boundaries. She is a graduate of Columbia University with a degree in Art History and Film. She has lived in Paris and Jerusalem, and currently resides in Brooklyn. She recently married Isaac Mathes, her cameraman.

ABOUT ERIN BURROWS:
Erin Burrows, M.A., completed her Fifth Year MA in Women’s History at Sarah Lawrence in 2009. She was a leader in the successful campaign at Sarah Lawrence College to rewrite the Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Policy and improve sexual assault services on campus. Erin was heavily involved with feminist and queer organizing on campus, leading to numerous changes in programming and policy including mandatory anti-oppression training for student senators. Erin was awarded the Senior Appreciation Award for recognition of her undergraduate leadership in 2008. She has been working for SAFER since August, 2008 and joined the board in May, 2009. She currently works as a Community Educator in the Domestic Violence Education and Prevention Program at My Sisters' Place, based in Yonkers, NY.

ABOUT JOSEPH SAMALIN:
http://www.mencanstoprape.org
Prior to joining Men Can Stop Rape as Campus Strength Coordinator, Joseph was co-president of Columbia University's men's group, Columbia Men Against Violence. He has been working on rape prevention and anti-violence work with young men in New York and other areas for 15 years.

ABOUT IGNACIO RIVERA:
http://www.ignaciorivera.com
Ignacio Rivera is a Queer, gender fluid, Trans- Entity, Black Boricua performance artist, currently performing skits, spoken word, one-person shows and story-telling internationally. Ignacio is a lecturer/trainer, activist, new filmmaker and self-proclaimed sex educator. As a lecturer/ trainer, Ignacio has spoken at home and abroad on such topics of racism, sexism, homo/transphobia, transgender issues, sexual liberation, anti-oppression, anti-violence, multi-issue organizing and more. Ignacio currently consultants with various organizations in New York City conducting professional development trainings for NYC high school staff.

Four Seasons Lodge, which tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who come together each summer in the Catskills to relive their tragedy, and to celebrate their lives, is playing at Quad Cinema, 34 W13th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan through Thursday December 3rd. Likewise, Disturbing The Universe, in which Bill Kunstler’s daughters, filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler, explore his journey from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer, to “the most hated lawyer in America,” and strive to come to terms with his legacy, is playing at Cinema Village, 22 E12th Street between 5th Avenue and University Place in Manhattan through Thursday December 3rd.

Wednesday evening December 2nd from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM UJA-Federation’s Connect To Care: A Response to the Economic Downturn will present a Budgeting and Expense Management Workshop at Kane Street Synagogue, 236 Kane Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Learn the basics of monthly budget preparation, as well as preparing for emergencies and meeting financial goals.
Workshop conducted by a financial counselor from NYLAG, the New York Legal Assistance Group.
Sponsored by The Brownstone Brooklyn Coalition
RSVP to Jessica Klaitman at jklaitman@jbfcs.org (212) 399-2685 x206

Sholom Aleichem's stories introduced the world to Tevye the Milkman and inspired the landmark Broadway musical, "Fiddler on the Roof." Theo Bikel played Tevye more than 2,000 performances onstage. Now as playwright and star, he brings back to life one of literature's most beloved authors and a bevy of the unforgettable characters he created in Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears which is being performed through Sunday December 13th at Baruch College's Baruch Performing Arts Center's Nagelberg Theatre, 55 Lexington Ave. in Manhattan (Enter on E. 25th St bet. Lexington & 3rd Aves. Inside Baruch College). Tickets are $55-$100.

The NY Israeli Film Festival which I plugged in my October 31st article begins on Saturday December 5th. See the festival's website for screening times and venues.

Just a reminder that the Maccabi Film Festival, A Hanukah Celebration of Jewish Sports Films,