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Ruchama Ehrenhalt Ruchama Ehrenhalt is a graduate of Ma'aleh School of Film and Television in Jerusalem. She also has a B. Ed. from Herzog College of Education. She served in the IDF as a Foreign Liaison to the Jordanian Military. Originally from Long Island, Ruchama moved to Israel when she was 4 years old. She currently lives in Jerusalem and is working at JDC ELKA as the Resource Development Manager. In August 2022 Ruchama received her MA in Human Rights Practice from the University of Arizona. Ruchama’s short fiction film Give it Back! explores the adolescent immigrant experience in a cross-racial, cross cultural context. Read about it here: https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/give-it-back-film-hrts-student-ruchama-ehrenhalt?fbclid=IwAR328XLddjmZhk82sM4glebztfXSLp7gRKHW3zZbS70xgrzI0ogcgFwpqck Ruchama’s short documentary film BrownWhite - From the perspective of Israeli biracial kids, BrownWhite explores how skin color influences the development of identity. Weaving their lived experiences with findings from academic research, the film reveals these kids' dilemmas around identity in a world that's more complicated than brown or white. Read about it here: https://humanrightspractice.arizona.edu/news/brownwhite-documentary-hrts-ma-student-ruchama-ehrenhalt-explores-bi-racial-identity-israel