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Peddlers of Ecstasy

Peddlers of Ecstasy

By Shulem Deen

January 18, 2011 / 20 comments

Movie Review: “Holy Rollers”

Does it matter that Hasidim in film bear little resemblance to Hasidim in real life?


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Tags: Hasidim in movies, Holy Rollers, Jesse Eisenberger, Kevin Asch, movie reviews, movies
Posted in Arts & Culture, Movies

Seriously, Man

Film Review

Seriously, Man

By Baal Devarim

March 11, 2010 / 24 comments

A Serious Man has been called hilarious comedy, genius high-brow tragedy, the best, Jewy-est, most auto-biographical Coen brothers film, a modern day story of Job, a medieval story of a dybbuk, and much else.
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Tags: movies, rationalism
Posted in Arts & Culture, Essays, Movies

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