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One of Us is a 2017 documentary feature film that chronicles the lives of three ex-Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn. The film was directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, who also created the documentary Jesus Camp. [2]
On a Sabbath day, 19-year-old Esty Shapiro, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish married woman, flees her home in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, section of New York City with only a handful of possessions. She takes a plane to Berlin, where her estranged mother lives, but runs away before they can meet after seeing her mother kiss her female partner. At a ...
Man Is a Woman; Marathon Man (film) Maravillas (film) Marci X; Marjorie Morningstar (film) Mary (2024 film) Menashe (film) The Merchant of Venice (2004 film) Metamorphosis of a Melody; The Meyerowitz Stories; Mighty Fine; Mina Tannenbaum; Minyan (film) Mr. Emmanuel; Mr. Skeffington; Molly's Pilgrim; Monsieur Batignole; Monty Python's Life of Brian
The word, derived from Yiddish, has been used historically (and often disparagingly) to describe a usually blond, non-Jewish woman who tempts an otherwise God-fearing man to stray from his ...
Shttl (Yiddish: שטטל, Ukrainian: Шттл) is a 2022 Ukrainian–French one-shot drama film written and directed by Ady Walter and starring Moshe Lobel and Saul Rubinek. [1] [2] [3] The film depicts the lives of a Jewish shtetl on the eve of Operation Barbarossa. It was filmed in Ukraine six months before the 2022 Russian invasion. [4]
Menashe (Menashe Lustig []), a recently widowed Hasidic Jewish man, tries to regain custody of his ten-year-old son Rieven (Ruben Niborski).Rieven is living with his aunt and uncle (Eizik, Yoel Weisshaus) per a ruling by the Rabbi (Meyer Schwartz) that Menashe must first remarry to provide a proper home for his son.
Yentl is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev [3] in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her community. Yentl refuses to be married off to a man.
A s a millennial Jewish woman, the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This hooked me with a concept: "Adam Brody plays a hot Rabbi." And, yes, when I actually watched the 10-episode romantic comedy ...