| Written and Performed By: Andrew Lustig Filmed/Edited By: Tracie Karasik Produced By: Harold Messinger, Raffael Lomas, Andrew Lustig, Tracie Karasik Camera Equipment Provided By: Jacci Chanon, Harold Messinger Filmed At: Brandeis-Bardin Campus of the American Jewish University in Simi Valley, CA Music Selections: "Theme from Schindler's List" Artist: Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra AlbumL Cinema Serenade Composed By: John Williams "Watermark" Artist: Enya Album: Watermark Composed By: Enya/Roma Ryan Special Thanks To The Staff and Participants of BCI Aliyah 2011 ©2012 Andrew Lustig All Rights Reserved. ©2012 Tracie Karasik Media. All Rights Reserved. I am Jewish By Andrew Lustig (lustig.andrew@gmail.com) I am the collective pride and excitement that is felt when we find out that that new actor, that great athlete, his chief of staff... is Jewish I am the collective guilt and shame that is felt when we find out that that serial killer, that Ponzi schemer, that wife beater... is Jewish I am the Jewish star tattooed on the chest of the teenager who chooses to rebel against his parents' and grandparents' warnings of a lonely goyim cemetery by embracing that same Judaism and making permanent his Jewish identity I am all the words in Yiddish I've been called all my life that I still don't understand. I am going to all three Phish shows this weekend. I am my melody of Adon Olam. I am my melody of Adon Olam. The words may be the same but I am my ... |