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Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women
Movie
Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women takes us into the rarefied world of young Hasidic women living what some consider an 18th-century way of life in 21st century Québec. The women are Chabad Lubavitch, a sect of Orthodox Hasidim, one of the more conservative branches of Judaism today.
W...
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YidLife Crisis presents Chewdaism: A Taste of Jewish Montreal
Movie
Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | YidLife Crisis presents CHEWDAISM: A Taste of Jewish Montreal; a funny, heimish and enlightening historical and cultural tour of Jewish Montreal centered around its legendary foods. YidLife Crisis' Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion gorge themselves in choice eateries as th...
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The Midnight Orchestra
Movie
After leaving Morocco as a child amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur War, the son of a once famous Jewish musician returns to his home country to bury his father. Aided by an eclectic cab driver, his search for the former members of his father’s band unexpectedly transforms his life ...
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The Last Suit
Movie
Abraham Bursztein, an octogenarian Jewish tailor, embarks on the adventure of a lifetime. Escaping a family intent on confining him to a nursing home, Abraham leaves Buenos Aires in search of the man who, over 70 years ago, saved him from certain death. With assistance from a roll call of generou...
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Sylvia: Tracing Blood
Movie
'Sylvia: Tracing Blood' plots the clandestine and violent path of international spy Sylvia Raphael, a South African woman who infiltrated Israel's enemies, emerging as a top female Mossad agent.
Directed by Saxon Logan
United Kingdom, 2016
Documentary, Jewish History
English
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The Bouncer
Movie
Ovadia is the strongest doorman of all the night clubs in Tel Aviv. His biggest dream is to become a father, but he and his wife Rachel have been struggling to get pregnant for almost five years. One day, small time gangster named Shalom Rozental offers Ovadia a job, which Ovadia sees as a great ...
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The Ritchie Boys
Movie + 1 extra
As Seen on 60 Minutes! | The Ritchie Boys is the riveting, untold story of a group of young men who fled Nazi Germany and returned as soldiers in U.S. uniforms. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anyone. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence ...
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Promise at Dawn
Movie
Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Melancholia,” “Norman") stars in Promise at Dawn, the epic film adaptation of Romain Gary’s best-selling autobiographical novel.
From his difficult childhood in Poland to his adolescence under Nice’s sun, to his career in the air force in Africa during World War II... Roma...
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Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story
Movie
People from all over the world have come to love Israeli writer Etgar Keret for his surreal short stories and his hilarious live performances. As The Guardian wrote: “Spending time with him is like entering the world of his stories: suddenly, everything seems slightly off-kilter, full of comic po...
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Shoelaces
Movie
Beloved Israeli actors Dov Glickman (Shtisel), Evelin Hagoel (The Women's Balcony) and Nevo Kimchi (Footnote, Restoration) star in Israel's heartwarming, award-winning smash hit SHOELACES!
SHOELACES tells the story of a complicated relationship between an aging father and his special-needs son. ...
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A Matter of Size
Movie
An Israeli comedy like nothing you’ve seen before! A hilarious and heart-warming tale about a coming out of a different kind: four overweight guys who learn to love themselves through the Japanese sport of sumo wrestling.
Herzl (Itzik Cohen) has been struggling with his weight ever since he was ...
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The Matchmaker
Movie
Summer of 1968. Arik Burstein, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a mysterious matchmaker and Holocaust survivor. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, the disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, ...
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Rue Mandar
Movie
Take a traditional Jewish funeral whose rituals no one can quite recall, add a Yiddishkeit community in Paris - one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and top it off with an ensemble cast of dysfunctional siblings and spouses. What you get in the assured hands of director Idit Cébula (Two...
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Hagiga: The Story of Israeli Cinema
1 season
This milestone documentary series challenges the way we think about the history of Israeli cinema. Combining hundreds of interviews captured over two years with rare archival footage from behind the cameras, the series follows Israeli cinema from the 1960s up to these days, investigates the key f...
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In Search of Israeli Cuisine
Movie + 1 extra
Join award-winning Chef Michael Solomonov on a delicious journey to meet Israel's top chefs, home cooks, vintners, and cheese-makers drawn from the more than 100 cultures that make up Israel today, and discover the rich and human story that emerges from their food.
Directed by Roger Sherman
U...