ONE OF THE BIG DRAMATIC SCENES in Holy Rollers sees Sam (Jesse Eisenberg) cutting off his payot, the dangling hair curls worn by Orthodox Jewish men. Considering the movie deals with some pretty ...

Plenty of modern horror movies feature demons and jump-scares, but not many explore Jewish funerary customs, kabbalistic mysticism, and a deep dive into Hasidic culture. The Offering– a horror film ...

Conservative Rabbi Marc Soloway invites us on his personal journey to modern day Ukraine to visit the graves of the Hasidic Masters as he tries to establish a connection with the famous names that ...

Yehuda and Haim are a pair of 23-year-old twins from Kfar Chabad. The first is a Torah prodigy, and the second – not. They must find a match, since in their “ripe old age” it simply will not do to be ...

The mix of fiction and documentary that takes us inside a Hasidic community in Brooklyn in “Menashe” turns out to be something of a double-edged sword. Director Joshua Z. Weinstein (a documentarian ...