The early story of Jackson Pollock’s niece, Brooklyn-born Rena “Rusty” Glickman, the only person of the Jewish Faith to receive Japan’s highest civilian honor — The Emperor’s Order of the Rising Sun.When at the age 12 Rusty learned about the Holocaust, she decided THAT was not going to happen to her, that she would be better and stronger than THEM — and that she would help bring righteousness (tsedakah צדקה) to this world.She didn’t know how to serve Life with what is right and just until she found judo (the gentle way), a sport at which she excelled, but from which women were barred. In 1959, and then a single mother, Rusty was asked to compete in the New York State Judo Championships — but had to do so while disguised as a man! Rusty beat the reigning State Champion —but as she stood on the podium having received her gold medal, THEY asked if she was a girl. When she acknowledged that she was, the organizers took back the medal! Rusty vowed to change how women were treated, was a pioneer for women’s rights, and got women’s judo accepted as an Olympic event. Her ashes are interred in Israel and Japan in the tomb of the Great Samurai Kanokogi.
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Key cast: Louis Gossett Jr.,Ed Harris,Todd Sherry
The early story of Jackson Pollock’s niece, Brooklyn-born Rena “Rusty” Glickman, the only person of the Jewish Faith to receive Japan’s highest civilian honor — The Emperor’s Order of the Rising Sun.When at the age 12 Rusty learned about the Holocaust, she decided THAT was not going to happen to her, that she would be better and stronger than THEM — and that she would help bring righteousness (tsedakah צדקה) to this world.She didn’t know how to serve Life with what is right and just until she found judo (the gentle way), a sport at which she excelled, but from which women were barred. In 1959, and then a single mother, Rusty was asked to compete in the New York State Judo Championships — but had to do so while disguised as a man! Rusty beat the reigning State Champion —but as she stood on the podium having received her gold medal, THEY asked if she was a girl. When she acknowledged that she was, the organizers took back the medal! Rusty vowed to change how women were treated, was a pioneer for women’s rights, and got women’s judo accepted as an Olympic event. Her ashes are interred in Israel and Japan in the tomb of the Great Samurai Kanokogi.
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Key cast: Louis Gossett Jr.,Ed Harris,Todd Sherry
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Completion date: 02/02/2017
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