Treyf

Alisa Lebow & Cynthia Madansky's excellent identity-interrogating riff on Jewish dykedom is a shining example of why gays and lesbians are at the forefront of reinvigorating American Jewishness. By creatively telling their story as a sort of Jewish odd couple -- from their first Passover-seder connection to the hundred-person Jewish lesbian meet-and-greet they organize -- Lebow and Madansky turn "treyf" (the Yiddish designation for un-kosher food) into a symbol of empowering difference. The film's most welcome moment is a trip to Jerusalem, which, far from generating yet another propagandistic Israeli romance, launches the kind of informed and conflicted critique of Zionism that has become a trademark of stateside Queer Yiddishkeit. At the Coolidge Corner, November 10 at 9 p.m.

A Letter Without Words
Human Remains
Rothschild's Violin
Amos Gutman, Filmmaker
Treyf
Florentene
Who's the Caboose?
Pop
Train of Life