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Alums Liv Colliander & David Henry Gerson jetted to Poland to talk film in the AFI Conservatory Highlights section at
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In 2017 Liv also became part of the commercial directing duo ZEITGEIST, with fellow filmmaker and husband David Henry Gerson. Together they create magical lifestyle and fashion commercials, with Hollywood production company PICROW.

In the final line of my Dad’s book, he writes of another book: a tome, made by the survivors as a memorial to all the Jews from Zamosc, Poland, where his parents were from, who were murdered during World War II. His memoir’s final line reads:

Previously I had only written alone, but film school taught me the benefit of working with other writers. Screenwriter Martin Horvat traveled with me from Slovenia to Auschwitz, to my father’s parents’ town of Zamosc, Poland, and back down to Ljubljana. Finding a collaborator who is willing to bounce around ideas is essential. Brennan Peters then came aboard as well, a second writer who helped us to put structure back onto the many ideas and masks, ephemera and ghosts, we had amassed in our extensive research.

According to Gershom Scholem, “the activities of these migrants
strengthened the Kabbalah, which acquired many adherents in Italy in the
fourteenth and fi fteenth centuries.”2
Laying the basis for the rediscovery of the
occult tradition of classical philosophy was, as Moshe Idel, one of the foremost
scholars of the subject, has pointed out that “Kabbalah was conceived by both
Jewish and Christian Renaissance fi gures as an ancient theology, similar to and,
according to the Jews, the source of such later philosophical developments as
Platonism, Aristotelianism, Pythagoreanism, and atomism.”3

While commonly conceived as a religious cause, Zionism began as a secular
movement. As the father of Reform Judaism, Moses Mendelssohn founded the
culture of Jewish secularism, which also opened the way for the development
of Zionism. According to Gershom Scholem, and later Jacqueline Rose, as
outlined in The Question of Zion, Zionism derived from Sabbateanism.86 According
to Scholem, “Sabbateanism is the matrix of every signifi cant movement to
have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to
Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism. The
Sabbatean ‘believers’ felt that they were champions of a new world which was to
be established by overthrowing the values of all positive religions.”87
It was Rabbi Antelman, in To Eliminate the Opiate, who pointed out that
the Frankists introduced Sabbateanism on a large-scale to Judaism principally
through the Reform and Conservative movements, as well as Zionist-leaning
organizations like the American Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Congress
and the B’nai B’rith, which was initially a branch of Freemasonry.

Freud, when he was made aware of the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria apparently
exclaimed, “This is gold!” and asked why these ideas had never previously been
brought to his attention.22 Carl Jung, who had worked with Freud, commented
approvingly of the Jewish mystical origins of Freudian psychoanalysis, stating
that in order to comprehend the origin of Freud’s theories:
…one would have to take a deep plunge into the history of the
Jewish mind. This would carry us beyond Jewish Orthodoxy into the
subterranean workings of Hasidism… and then into the intricacies of
the Kabbalah, which still remains unexplored psychologically.23
Freud’s theories were excessively concerned with sex and even incest,
which is refl ected in Sabbatean antinomianism. As Gershom Scholem noted,
the Sabbateans were particularly obsessed with upturning prohibitions against
sexuality, particularly those against incest, as the Torah lists thirty-six prohibitions
that are punishable by “extirpation of the soul,” half of them against incest.
Baruchya Russo (Osman Baba), who in about the year 1700 was the leader of
the most radical wing of the Sabbateans in Salonika and who directly infl uenced
Jacob Frank, not only declared these prohibitions abrogated but went so far as
to transform their contents into commandments of the new “Messianic Torah.”

According to Gershom Scholem, "The introduction of this idea was one of the most important and lasting innovations of Kabbalism. ...no other element of Kabbalism won such a degree of popular approval."[28] The "feminine Jewish divine presence, the shekhinah, distinguishes Kabbalistic literature from earlier Jewish literature."[29]

Prior to her passing, Miss Cafritz established the concept of slavery among the women who were united in slavery to Mr. Raniere. Despite being the topmost harem member, Miss Cafritz acted as slave to some of women in the harem.

Cafritz's Life Before NXIVM Cafritz was the daughter of Washington socialites Buffy and William Cafritz. In old footage featured in the docuseries, Raniere and Cafritz describe meeting at a ski trip when they were younger. Cafritz became closely involved with Raniere in the '90s when he launched Consumers' Buyline Inc. When the government accused CBI of being a pyramid scheme, she and Karen Unterreiner signed a consent agreement with prosecutors admitting their roles in CBI.

Cafritz's Complicity in NXIVM's Dark SideWhen Raniere started NXIVM, Cafritz cofounded Jness, a women's group in NXIVM that focussed on how gender influences women's roles in society and their relationships. Before her death, not only did Cafritz support Raniere as a business and romantic partner, but she also enabled his sketchy dealings. Cafritz has been brought up often by "Daniela," an undocumented woman who was a DOS slave kept in a house against her will for two years. When Daniela became impregnated by Raniere, Cafritz guided her through an abortion at a doctor's office. Daniela believes that Cafritz's role was to shield Raniere from liability, that she was "the defuser of bombs" who would "neutralise others.Cafritz's complicit behaviour can also be traced back to the '90s during Raniere's CBI days. According to The Times Union, she reportedly hired a 12-year-old girl to walk her dog, encourageing the girl to visit the townhouse she shared with Raniere. Later, Raniere raped the underage victim, whose mother worked for his company. He allegedly had around 60 sexual encounters with her. Two years later, in 1993, the girl reported the abuse to the police. She eventually signed a waiver saying that the claim that Raniere had sex with her was true but that she wouldn't press charges.