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Racheli, a young Orthodox woman, struggles with her community's strict expectations and cultural practices after feeling oppressed and humiliated during her monthly immersion in the Mikveh.

Lonely, Isaac's imaginations comes to life when a little pig miraculously shows up at his doorstop.

Kosher-made guilty pleasures.

This film describes the unique Jewish culture in Atlanta, where the annual Kosher BBQ Festival takes place. And no, this is not an oxymoron. Director Adam Hirsch, one of this Festival’s organizers, looks behind the scenes of this curious event, observes the lives of people who try to combine the traditional Jewish culture with that of the American South.

“Kosher”, in a figurative sense, means “pure”. And in the Jewish kitchen, everything that is pure is certified as such by the kosher certificate of purity. In “Being Kosher”, Ruth Olshan applies this Jewish tradition of verifying the purity of things to her own Jewish family history. A tragicomic exploration of Jewish purity laws! From kosher food to ritual hygiene, sex by the book to the “not quite kosher” Jewish identity and family history of the filmmaker.

It's only a half hour drive from Bnei-Brak, a closed Orthodox city, to Tel Aviv's shore. But for the women going there it's light years away. "The Kosher Beach" is a gated and secluded 100 meter-long strip of beach with dedicated days for women and men to bathe separately. Only a wooden fence separates between the freedom of the gay beach and them. The "Brave Bunch," a secret female orthodox sisterhood, arrive to what is a source of quiet sanity for them, and they consider it a safe haven away from social and family problems: their own private and free heaven. Here they can be themselves, take a deep ocean breath and open their hearts to the sea, until the day the Rabbis try to close the beach. What will the girls do? Will they give in or fight?

This cruel yet poetic experimental documentary examines the poetics of cruelty, as it describes the routine operation of a poultry slaughterhouse. The movie draws a comparison between the chickens and the other, the different, as it depicts the butchers and their cruelty. Although the movie is influenced by documentary classic Blood of the Beasts (1949) by Georges Franju, it differs in being devoid of any narration or text. The film also focuses on the cinematic form – color, editing and composition – as never before seen in Israel.

What happens when a rabbinical matchmaker, a Hasidic couple and a single, explore the precise meaning of humanity's most powerful word? Using downright silliness, Kosher Love reveals that we're all the same in our search for love.

The cast of RV talk about how irrepressably wacky that Barry Sonnenfeld is.

When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos follows. What happens with lovers who don't fit but do belong together?

A young woman learns that her adoptive Jewish family rescued her from China's "one child" policy.

A Jewish young man starts putting tefilim while he hallucinates a dinner with god where things really get out of control.

The story is a variation on the Abie's Irish Rose theme, detailing the marriage between an Irish Catholic and a Jew.

At 20, Viv was a promising young singer. At 30, her failing music career has forced her back into her mother's basement. But when this self proclaimed Bad Jew lands ass-backwards into a job as a Cantor at her family's synagogue, she's thrown into a wild ride of illicit affairs, drug trips, tense family drama, self discovery and some serious Jewish bops. It's "Shiva Baby" meets "A Star is Born." Modern Jewish wit and Hebrew Electro-Pop.

A divorced, Jewish father from Chicago, finds himself living in Germany to be with his only daughter. He won’t abandon her like his own father did to him. He decides to open up a Jewish Deli in a small town known for Antisemitism and was a beehive of Nazi activity during WW2. What could go wrong??? Along the way, he attempts to reconnect with family, friends and his faith.

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Tamar, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli girl, is examined because she is no longer a virgin. An autobiographical story, a portrait of a community, of a religion, of a shared blindness.

Somewhere in Latvia. On his release from prison debt collector Yaroslav Baturov meets a cop with clairvoyant abilities and gets involved in an extortion operation that takes an unexpected turn in Shlomo Rubinstein`s grocery store „Kosherland“.

The Jewish community in Manchester is a kaleidoscope of tradition, religion and extravagance. This documentary reveals the stories of three families and their friends and offers an insight into lifestyles that, although range from traditional to modern, are bound together by one faith.

The Kosher Sex DVD is based on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's best-selling book, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into 27 languages. Kosher Sex is Hosted by Boteach, a frequent guest on nationally syndicated talk shows such as Oprah and Larry King Live, host of TLC's "Shalom in the Home" and author of numerous bestselling books. The DVD explores the important role that sex plays in people's daily lives and examines a multitude of topics that are both highly entertaining and educational. Kosher Sex is a remarkably refreshing approach to sex that draws on ancient Jewish teachings to provide invaluable help for relationships. Shmuley Boteach, an orthodox rabbi, has been successfully counseling individuals and couples - most notably the late Michael Jackson and Jon Gosselin - for years. What is surprising is how many so-called sexual taboos are actually encouraged in Kosher Sex.

A comedy about Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.

Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in his family seems intent on eating.

Why do Jews and Muslims forbid pork? This film searches for the ancient roots of the pig taboo and explores the centuries-long relationship between humans and pigs.

William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.

The life story of a young boxer Bekzat Sattarkhanov, who won gold at the Sydney Olympics. He passed away early, but managed to make a huge contribution to the sport of Kazakhstan.

Nurlan is an ordinary office worker who is content with his simple life. Everything changes when his sister, who is being pursued by debt collectors, seeks his help. In order to assist her in paying off the debts, Nurlan decides to participate in an underground poker tournament.