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The Wedding Plan
Why this pick
Another gently comic look at Orthodox Jewish life, balancing faith, communal expectations, and a determined woman’s agency with the same affectionate, crowd-pleasing warmth.
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01 / THE STORY
The building site of a new synagogue in Jerusalem turns into a battleground between husbands and wives, when the new rabbi decrees that it will not include a women’s balcony.
An orthodox congregation in Jerusalem is celebrating a Bar Mitzvah when a section of the synagogue's balcony, where the women sit, collapses. The rabbi's wife is badly injured and in a coma. The elder rabbi, unable to cope with his wife's condition, cannot function and is cared for by Zion. Rebuilding, with all the funding, permits and inspections is too much for the leaderless congregation. Congregants meeting in a schoolroom for morning prayers, are short of a quorum of ten men (a minyan) and stop a man in hassidic garb passing down the street who agree to join them. He is Rabbi David, a teacher, and he brings some of his students who more than meet the minyan requirement.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Evelin Hagoel
Ettie
Igal Naor
Zion
Orna Banai
Tikva
Einat Saruf
Margalit
Aviv Alush
Rabbi David
Itzik Cohen
Aaron
Yafit Asulin
Yaffa
Sharon Elimellech
Ora