Irena Fayngold

Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School

Irena Fayngold

Using interviews with Shulamit, her family, teachers, and other students, the film allows the members of this community to tell their own stories. What emerges is a potent and inspiring story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of Jewish tradition and social change. Beyond the struggle to create a supportive environment for gay and lesbian students and teachers at the school, this is the story of a community wrestling with the very definition of pluralism and diversity in a Jewish context.