Films About Kosher Life, Halacha and Jewish Tradition
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- DirectorRuth OlshanJews who want to live kosher not only have to learn the religious rules of every day life. They also have to face up to questions about just what constitutes proper thinking, speaking and acting. A whopping 613 commandments are laid out to regulate Jewish life. But sometimes an 'appropriate interpretation' is allowed. BEING KOSHER is a sensual film about the curious contradictions and concepts of everyday Jewish life, followed at times freely and at times stringently by liberal and orthodox Jews in Germany - familiar neighbors with an unfamiliar way of life. Over the course of a year we capture our main protagonists as they shuttle between the highs of the holidays and the necessities of everyday life. The director is on the lookout for authentic Jewish life - whether it concerns love, food or money - she is there to get the answer.
- StarsJamie ElmanEli BatalionMichael ZahranDrinking in the very best that Montreal's multicultural Mile End has to offer, Chaimie and Leizer, best friends and debating adversaries, tackle sex, drugs, and milk and meat... all in their grandparents' Yiddish (with English subtitles).
- DirectorMorris AntonStarsSolomon KahaneAbraham LiebermanA short documentary about "Kashruth" in the Jewish home. Presents how to prepare kosher food and to keep kosher. Designed for Jews who do not practice this biblical enjoinment.
- DirectorEliyahu Ungar-SargonStarsRon LowCut explores the underlying medical, religious and ethical issues that surround male infant circumcision, and is an important resource for anyone who wants a thorough understanding of the practice.
- DirectorLauren Shweder Biel888-Go-Kosher follows a day in the life of New York City's only rapid-response kitchen koshering service. Operating out of his office in Brooklyn, Rabbi Sholtiel Lebovic helps those in need, answering calls and snapping into action with his full-service team to kosher kitchens across the New York area. 888-Go-Kosher offers a light-hearted portrait of this unique service, and demonstrates the relationship of kashrut to Jewish identity.
- DirectorBarry WernickKeeping kosher is only one way in which many of the Jews in Texas maintain their Jewish identities while living amongst a community that is overwhelmingly Christian. Whether one keeps kosher or not, however, does not matter, as the Kosher Chili Cook-Off remains a unique and exciting event that serves to unite the whole Community - Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, unaffiliated...and even non-Jews. Meet some of the colorful people, charitable organizations, and amazing leaders comprising the Dallas Jewish Community, as Wernick combines humorous interviews with smart narrative in documenting Tiferet Israel Congregation's 14th Annual Kosher Chili Cook-Off.
- StarsMark AttmanCraig AxlerHannah BalikA celebration of a great Jewish-American tradition. Beginning as places for Jews from Central and Eastern Europe to eat and meet, they expanded across America and eventually attracted as many non-Jews as Jews. Today, the number of Jewish Delis has shrunk dramatically and many of the survivors have adapted to changing times, sometimes in ways their forebears might not recognize.
- DirectorRachel ElitzurIn the ultra-Orthodox community men are educated not to look at women or think about them and a girl practices modesty in clothing, actions and thoughts. Marriage requires complete strangers to suddenly encounter their partner for the first time in an intimate situation with only rudimentary information. According to Jewish law, they are required at that first intimate encounter to consummate the marriage. The forbidden becomes permitted, the impure pure, and modesty turns into full exposure. What was considered sinful transforms to the Holy of Holies. The film draws a portrait of a society and a place: women and men speak bravely about their hidden feelings during matchmaking, the engagement period, the guidance of brides and grooms, the canopy, the special "Yihud" room, until the morning after marriage.
- DirectorRachel ElitzurStarsRachel ElitzurThe personal journey of Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox film director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and family life. Rachel unveils the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice, for the first time, to their concealed inner world through the wig that covers up women's' hair.
- DirectorOri GruderAccording to Jewish tradition, there is no forgiveness or atonement for the grave sin of 'wasting sperm'. Yet is it possible to fulfill this commandment in today's reality? This sensitive documentary takes us to a personal, complexed and first on a kind journey.
- DirectorEvan BeloffStarsYisroel BernathWhat happens when a rabbinical matchmaker, a Hasidic couple and a single, explore the precise meaning of humanity's most powerful word? Using downright silliness, Kosher Love reveals that we're all the same in our search for love.
- DirectorKarin KainerIt's only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv's shore. But for the women going there it's light years away. "The Kosher Beach" is a gated and secluded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bath separately, only a wooden fence separates between the freedom of the gay beach and them. The "Brave Bunch", a secret female orthodox sisterhood, arrive to what is a source of quiet sanity for them and they consider it a safe haven away from social and family problems: their own private and free heaven. Here they can be themselves, take a deep ocean breath and open their hearts to the sea, until the day the Rabbi's try to close the beach. What will the girls do? Will they give in or fight?
- DirectorChris MaloneStarsJack AisenbergBernette ClarkeJoel LeverThe Jewish community in Manchester is a kaleidoscope of tradition, religion and extravagance. This documentary film opens a window into their lives and shows a wide variety of ritual and celebrations.
- StarsSanjeev BhaskarYitzchak BergerYehuda BrodieA series that shows the Orthodox Jewish lifestyle.
- DirectorJulie BenkoStarsJulie BenkoFelix TeichInspired by a real self-help book of the same name, "The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy" follows a recently married Hasidic couple who arrive home on their wedding night. The trouble is, no one ever taught them what comes next.
- DirectorDavid OfekMia WebbNo Jewish divorce is complete without the man literally giving the woman her freedom back. Divorce Denied follows several 'chained' women together with Batya Kahana Dror, a religious lawyer, who embarks on a struggle against the rabbinical courts. She believes the laws must be changed according to our time.
- DirectorMili Ben HaylTamar ShipponyStarsLea AvrahamVictoria HannaMaureen NehedarAn intimate conversation with famous musicians - Victoria Hanna, Maureen Nehedar, Lea Avraham and Alma Zohar about their personal challenges of singing/composing ancient Jewish texts which for generations have been associated only to men.
- DirectorAnat ZuriaThree young married women are trapped by the religious courts. They can't get a divorce because for the court to grant one they need their husband's consent. They don't know when they will be set free because the date of their release depends on their husband's whim. They are forbidden relationships because a married woman is forbidden to another man. They are condemned to be barren, as a married woman is forbidden to bear another's child. Their voices are silenced because they are young anonymous women whose pain and suffering is embedded in the law of a democratic country in the 21st century. The film follows Tamar, Sari and Smadar's Kafkaesque struggle over a period of two years. Each of these three young women is doing all she can to obtain a divorce with the help of a group of female orthodox rabbinical advocates.
- DirectorStéphanie HalfonStarsLou BennettZineb TrikiCarla BesnaïnouNine-year-old Orthodox Jewish Etel is having her period for the first time. Miriam, her mother, finally regards her as a woman. Etel is thrilled, until she finds out that in her religion women are unclean when they have their period.
- DirectorTania HoserReligious Jewish women open up their hearts to convey their experience of Mikvah and the cycle of family purity, which although a very private aspect of Judaism is more fundamental to a Jewish community than a synagogue. . Mikvah is a ritual immersion in a pool of natural and marks the end of the period in the cycle of family purity in which a married couple may not touch but are encouraged to talk to each other. The cycle is intended to increase desire and keep a marriage fresh.
- DirectorRafael BaluluDavid OfekEsty ShushanStarsRafael BaluluShimon Jonathan BaluluRuth ZiniFive filmmakers document the Passover night during the COVID-19 pandemic from the preparations to the end of the fest.