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Five hundred years ago, Osnat Barzani was born in the city of Mosul. Her father was a rabbi, and he built a yeshiva where men studied Torah. He didn't have any sons, so Osnat convinces him to teach her how to read, and she begins to study Torah. When it is time for Osnat to marry, she tells her father that she won't give up her studies, so he tells all the men who come to visit that they couldn't marry her unless they promised to allow her to continue....
2) The promise
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Two young men question the "orthodoxy" of values and religion in a world cut off from their Hasidic traditions.
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Arik Ascherman and Jeremy Milgrom are not typical Israeli rabbis. As this documentary shows, every day they leave their homes in Jerusalem to help Palestinians in the West Bank. They believe Jews, as God's chosen people, have an obligation to challenge the injustices of occupation. But few other Israelis agree. In addition to confronting angry settlers, the rabbis must overcome the prejudices of most Palestinians. Can clerics, of all people, really...
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In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. She finds her way to a renowned rabbi, but it's his daughter, Ettie, who offers hope of salvation when she creates a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their...
10) The rabbi and the reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and their fight against silence
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"This is the story of two men, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, an immigrant from Nazi Germany, with a shared belief that remaining silent in the face of injustice was wrong"--
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"Joann Sfar's beloved, humorous, and wise talking cat is back for more beautifully illustrated adventures in Algiers and across Africa in the 1930s. While the rabbi is away, his cat tags along with Malka of the Lions (the rabbi's enigmatic cousin), who roams the desert with his ferocious-on-demand lion. Some believe Malka to be a pious Jew, others think he's a shrewd womanizer, but the cat will be the one to discover the surprising truth." "Back in...
15) The Frisco Kid
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A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there.
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"An American rabbi enters Soviet Russia to investigate reports of persecution among the Jewish community. Though heavily monitored once he enters the state, one day the rabbi manages to sneak away in a taxi and discovers a secret that will change his life forever"--