Another Place at the Table

This morning’s SF Chronicle’s Pink Section has an article about the movie “The Other Son,” directed by Lorraine Levy. It’s about two families – one Jewish, one Arab – in the city of Haifa.

It’s a fictional story based on historical events, in this case, the Israeli conflict in 1991. The maternity hospitals had to evacuate, and stories have emerged about infants being given to the wrong families in the aftermath.

“The Other Son” shows us two families who discover they have this problem when the...