Jewish women and sports: Chicago filmmaker’s inspiring new documentary

By Joseph Aaron (09/07/2007)

It’s an old joke based on an old stereotype. What’s the shortest book ever written? “Jews and Sports.”

Jews, so the cliche goes, are the people of the book, not the basketball court or Olympic track. And that’s especially true of Jewish women, who, as the stereotype would have it, says Chicago filmmaker Shuli Eshel, “are all Jewish mothers who care only about raising their children to be lawyers and doctors, and for whom sports is the last thing on their minds.” Continue reading Joseph Aaron: Jewish women and sports: Chicago filmmaker’s inspiring new documentary →