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Bay Area's spiritual path helps her create `Sarah's Daughters'
MICHAEL FOX
Bulletin Correspondent
One senses almost immediately that Marcia Jarmel is a woman of action. Even with something as ephemeral as her relationship with Judaism, Jarmel is constantly moving forward.
Jarmel and her husband, film editor Ken Schneider, compiled their own Haggadah. Then they started a discussion group for people who were similarly disaffected with Judaism but still wanted to connect with it.
But Jarmel's most serious commitment to exploring her relationship with her faith took the form of a film, "The Return of Sarah's Daughters."
The provocative one-hour work, which examines two women's experiences with Orthodox Judaism, recently aired in KCSM's "Women of Vision" series and screens four times in July in the Jewish Film Festival.
Born and raised in suburban New Jersey, Jarmel attended high school and college in Boulder, Colo., before moving to the Bay Area in 1988. A journalism major, Jarmel learned filmmaking by working on other people's movies.
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