Yocheved Pianko Feinerman, at The Blogs

Jul 13, 2025, 11:32 PM

Discovering sentimental value at the 2025 Jerusalem Film Festival

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With real life unfolding at a pace more intense, more crushing, and more surreal than any film, it’s hard — impossible, really — to pretend everything is normal. Films end. The lights come up. There’s a structure, a promise...

Jul 21, 2022, 8:52 PM

Go With Yo to the Jerusalem Film Festival

The film festival flags are raised! The 39th Jerusalem Film Festival begins this Thursday, July 21. Over the next ten days, 150 Israeli, International, and classic films will be screened. Theater seats will be filled with local and international cinephiles....

Jul 12, 2022, 7:08 PM

Our Boys and Our Girls: Meshugaim in Dialogue

Mommy, are you okay? What? I respond. Are you okay? You look um… Like a person that binge-watched several episodes of “Our Boys” in preparation for the launch of Tammy Riklis and Hagai Levi’s new book, Our Boys: The Polemics. (So far only...

Jun 20, 2022, 7:22 PM

James’ Journey to Jerusalem: A Film Review

We Journey to Jerusalem. James is me - I am James. I know what you are thinking, how could the protagonist in co-writer and Director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's movie, a 24-year-old preacher from the imaginary village of Entshongwen, be me, a 41-year-old...

Dec 21, 2020, 3:23 PM

Facing the Mirror

Harav Benny Lau, Shlita - A Humble Request for Guidance My name may be unfamiliar, but Harav Benny Lau, you are a significant figure in my life: my Rav, my mentor. My teacher. My guide. A lifeline. Thank you. For inspiration....

Sep 30, 2020, 7:04 PM

Clopping Al Chet with Brene, Pema, and Rabbi Sacks

Me: This is your last mesima (assignment). Charlie: Promise? Me: Does it look like I can handle any more? My second-grade son knew better than to respond. I open the document. Scan the questions. Pause at question #2. Reread question #2. "מה זה "ותשובה...

Mar 5, 2019, 7:45 AM

Purim on the Go: Road Trip to the Dead Sea

Skip town this Purim. Sure, there’s nothing quite like celebrating Purim at home, in your own shul with family and friends, but why not take Purim on the road this year. Invite your family and friends to join, pack up...

Jan 16, 2019, 9:37 AM

The Ultimate Tu B’Shevat Trip Guide for High Energy Moms

The Tu B’shevat Challenge. Create an elevating, energizing experience. For me, a High Energy Mom. For my family. For my community. For you, my fellow High Energy Moms. For your families. For your communities. For all of us, High Energy Moms searching for...

Dec 11, 2018, 11:56 PM

High Energy Women in Conversation: Israeli Artist Jordana Klein

As part of my undergraduate degree at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, I enrolled in Art History. I was mesmerized by both the art and the passionate artist. What inspired the artist? What unique experience motivated their creativity?...

Nov 29, 2018, 2:19 PM

Follow in the Footsteps of the Maccabim: Your High Energy Chanukah Travel Guide

Chanukah 5779 is quickly approaching! Ready? Kids will be out of school for six days! Expecting fun. Ready? Family is staying with you. Requesting meaningful tours. Ready? Friends want to meet up. Craving awesome food. Ready? You will be ready. Make Memories this Chanukah -- Here are six itineraries...

About Me

Yocheved Pianko Feinerman is a writer-director based in Modiin, Israel, finishing her final year at Minshar School of Art (graduating 2025). A former teacher turned filmmaker, she explores identity, cultural collision, and human vulnerability with raw intimacy and wry humor. Mom to four, human to one Labradoodle, and married to a wonderfully normal husband, she also chronicles her chaos @GoWithYo.

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