The Sacramento Jewish Film Festival, the Sacramento Area NAACP, Sacramento Faces Race, the Central Valley Holocaust Educators' Network, and the Sacramento Jewish Community Relations Council sponsored a Social Justice Film Services, including the film, They Ain’t Ready For Me. This film explores the challenges and motivations of Tamar Manasseh, a fearless community leader in Chicago, who is working to prevent more people from being killed by gun violence. It also highlights how her Judaism influences her activism.
Tamar Manasseh is a rabbinical student (soon to be rabbi) who is leading the fight against senseless killings on the south side of Chicago. Every day, the vivacious, self-assured, and magnetic mother of two, sits on the corner of 75th Street and South Stewart Avenue in the Englewood section of Chicago. This is the government-abandoned part of the city, where poverty, unemployment, addiction, and violence are rampant. In 2015, a young mother was shot and killed trying to break up a fight. For Tamar, this was one senseless killing too many. Tired of waiting for politicians to do something, Tamar took the situation into her own hands. She did something simple yet revolutionary – she sat down on the corner and hasn’t left since. In over four years, not one person has been killed on the block. Tamar and the organization she founded, MASK, Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings, are proving that something can be done, the situation is not hopeless. With just her presence on the block – talking, joking, and hanging out – she is making the forgotten members of the neighborhood believe that there are people who care whether they live or die. Her unique background and upbringing give her a perspective that few can claim. Both authentically Jewish and authentically Black, she brings an understanding of both communities, even as she struggles for acceptance in the Jewish world.
Brad Rothschild is the Director/Producer of this great film and is an award-winning producer and writer with both a creative and a business background. He received a Master’s in International Affairs and a Master’s in Business Administration, both from Columbia University. From 1995-1997, he served as the Speechwriter and Director of Communications for the Mission of Israel to the United Nations.
Brad produced the award-winning documentary feature, Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. The film has screened in the Jerusalem Film Festival and in over 20 festivals in the United States and around the world. Brad directed the documentary film African Exodus, about the plight of Israel’s African refugees and the documentary film Tree Man, about the people who come to New York City to sell Christmas trees every holiday season. Tree Man won the Audience Award at the St. Lawrence International Film Festival.
April Baskin was raised in Folsom, CA. She has been a core organizer and movement leader within the Jewish community for nearly 20 years. She is the Union for Reform Judaism's immediate past Vice President of Audacious Hospitality, and conceived of and is currently hosting the first season of their latest podcast, Wholly Jewish (which can be found on iTunes). She’s helped shift institutions toward more equitable outcomes within and outside of the Jewish world and is a faithful advocate of building just, diverse, and inclusive spaces that cultivate belonging and empowerment. April is the Founding Director of Joyous Justice and serves as the Racial Justice Director of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Additionally, she was a Schusterman Insight Fellow, a featured speaker at the national 2019 Women's March in Washington D.C, and the designer and facilitator of JewVNation, a fellowship of action and healing for Jews of Color and Jews committed to advancing inclusion. She launched the #JOCCount social media campaign by creating the hashtag, and through advocacy and foundational research.
Teven Laxer is the director of the Sacramento Jewish Film Festival, a co-director of the Social Justice Film Series, and a member of the JCRC. He is also a member of the Public Records Access Monitoring Committee of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies and is a board member of the Sacramento JGS. He worked for 40 years in the labor movement.
Lynn Berkley-Baskin is an equity educator and works at the intersections of academia, Black justice, and community health. Her leadership includes the Greater Sacramento SNAACP, JCRC, Sacramento Faces Race and Justice2Jobs Coalition. She serves as a co-director of the Social Justice Film Series.
Judy Heiman is a member of the Congregation B’nai Israel Board of Trustees and co-chair of the congregation’s Racial Justice Committee. She is also a co-director of the Social Justice Film Series. Judy has a BA from Brandeis University and an MBA from the Haas School at Berkeley, and her professional background is in public policy and budget analysis as well as nonprofit administration.
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