Sponsored by Susan Fader and Lawrence Krule in honor of their friend Steve Klitsner.
A Tale of a Woman and a Robe is a series of film clips exploring the difficult process that women converts go through as they ritually immerse in front of an all-male panel of rabbis. The clips, which dramatize the women’s experiences of privacy and gaze under the watchful eye of the male bet din, include interviews with three leading Orthodox rabbis in Israel. The session will be accompanied by a panel discussion with the director, Nurit Jacobs Yinon, using these clips as a launching point to discuss the dynamics of women’s conversion.
