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A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. Filmmakers Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky examine the religion's presence in the United States. Leonard Nimoy and Sarah Jessica Parker narrate. Watch...
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- Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
By Dennis Harvey. An even-handed portrait of a community that — due largely to its extreme insularity — is often misunderstood or attacked by outsiders, “A Life Apart” examines U.S. Hasidic...
Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews. This documentary manages to be as happy and funny as the Hasidic Jews themselves. The result is a very convincing film makes you yearn for their simple and...
A Life Apart: Hasidism in America: Directed by Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky. With Leonard Nimoy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zeldy Abromowitz, Yaffa Eliach. Hasidic Jews seem alien, and even hostile, to those outside their culture,which frequently includes other Jews.
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- Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky
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Directed by Menachem Daum, Oren Rudavsky. Celebrates the durability of these pious people whose lives are built upon the worship of the Lord and the transmission of their values from one generation to the next. Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat.
But this documentary, with its essentially rosy emphasis on loving families and spiritual joy, gradually develops a revealing overview. Lucid connections are made between American Hasidim and the...
The documentary covers interviews with many Hassidic Jews, most living in NYC, some who have survived concentration camps and their descendants. It focuses on the Hassicdic way of life, the relationship of the individual with its community, and the relationship (or lack there of) of the Hassidic community with "America."
