
- Director: Paula Weiman-Kelman
- Type: Documentaries
- Year: 2020
- Language: English
- Length: 60 minutes
- Screening: Mar 1 03:00 PM
This screening is SOLD OUT. A rush line will form at the Box Office 45 minutes prior to the screening.
Rachel Cowan was a civil rights activist, community organizer, the first female Jew by choice ordained as a Rabbi, a beloved and influential mindfulness teacher, a grandmother and wise elder. And then she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Living each day fully, she turned dying into an opportunity to experience gratitude.
Q&A with director Paula Weiman-Kelman to follow screening.
Filmmaker Bio:
Paula Weiman-Kelman is veteran documentary filmmaker known for moving portraits of inspiring women. Her first film Rites of Passage was a portrait of the feisty Israeli feminist icon and peace activist Alice Shalvi. Twenty years later she revisited her subject in The Re-annotated Alice. Dying Doesn’t Feel Like What I’m Doing, celebrates the life of Rachel Cowan – a beloved rabbi and influential mindfulness teacher who passed away last year.