Jewish - Scream & Shout

A national television show named "Blue Bloods" filmed in Boro Park last month, recording an episode for their show. That episode, named "Men in Black" aired on CBS last Friday night, February 8, 2013.

The show begins with the Grand Rebbe of Tolshen, Rabbi Morganthal lying on his deathbed. Henry Reagan, the former local police commissioner who is a close friend of the Rebbe, pays his respects. The Rebbe shares with Mr. Reagan that he is breaking with Hasidic tradition in asking Levi, his younger son, to be his successor instead of the customary elder son, Jacob, because the former is more suitable. At the funeral of the Rebbe, Levi, the new Grand Rebbe steps into the alley to answer a call on his cell phoneand is stabbed to death, compounding the tragedy. The rest of the show focuses on the investigation in finding the killer. 

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A Wee Look at Hasidic Culture in Williamsburg; Living And Working With Satmar Hasidim

What's it like for people who live and work in Williamsburg but who are not hasidic or even Jewish? A short video tries to answer that question.

The Bill Cosby Show (1971) s2e26 - The Saturday Game

A young Jewish boy joins Chet's little league baseball team. Saturday is the day of the big game, and the boy is forced to decide between playing in the game, or sitting out due to his religious beliefs, Saturday being the Jewish sabbath. The episode that brings this show to an end.

Venice, Italy - 'Fill The Void' Looks At Hasidic Community

Venice, Italy - Israeli director Rama Burshtein provides an intimate look inside the private world of Tel Aviv’s Hasidic community in the film, “Fill the Void,” which premiered this weekend in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

A Hasidic Jew herself, Burshtein said she wanted to create a portrait of family life within the community without presenting it in conflict with the secular world.

“The Orthodox world is so interesting it does not need to cope with the secular,” Burshtein told a news conference Sunday. “It can be very interesting and the drama can be very strong inside.”

The film is about an 18-year-old girl named Shira who struggles with whether she wants to marry her brother-in-law, Yochay, after her sister Esther dies giving birth. The decision is all Shira’s, despite the strict formality within the community, and the movie ultimately is a story about facing a difficult decision and becoming a woman.

“It’s all about emotions and choices and what leads you to do what you do,” said actress Hadas Yaron, who played Shira. “I’m also young. But Shira is different from me because she is not familiar with all these feelings she experiences for the first time.”

Israeli director Rama Burshtein (L) with an unidentified guest attends the premiere of 'Fill the void (Lemale et ha' chalal)' during the 69th Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, 02 September 2012. The movie is presented in competition at the festival, which runs from 29 August to 08 September.  EPA/DANIEL DAL ZENNARO

The movie shows intimate rituals of the Hasidic community, from Esther’s funeral to her infant son’s circumcision ceremony immediately after, Sabbath dinner and the workings of the matchmaker, who helps brokers marriages as girls reach Shira’s age.

The community, while residing inside the bustling and secular city of Tel Aviv, is very self-contained. In one scene, as the men study, someone gets up to close the windows that allow sounds of secular Tel Aviv to drift inside.

“This moment in the movie really gives the idea of being in the environment,” said Yiftach Klein, who plays the brother-in-law Yochay.

Burshein, 45, was born in New York and graduated from film school in Jerusalem in 1994. During that period, she became deeply religious. She has since been making films within the Orthodox community to help promote self-expression.

“I love this world. I chose this world. I was not born to this world,” she said.

She said, however, that the Hasidic world did not appear inviting when she first contemplated it from the outside 20 years ago.

“Part of that was because how I thought they saw women,” she said. Once inside, however, she said she found she liked traditional roles between men and women.

“I love my role as a woman. I feel it is true. I chose it. It doesn’t stop me from doing films, but the way I see the home, between a man and a woman, I love it like this.

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