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Editors’ Pick

May 15, 2017

A New Movie Explores the Inner Life of a Jewish Congregation

The Women’s Balcony.

The Israeli film The Women’s Balcony, recently screened in the U.S., tells the story of an Orthodox congregation undergoing a period of upheaval and of the resulting conflict between, on the one hand, a charismatic but overzealous new rabbi and, on the other hand, a group of female congregants. In his review, Liel Leibovitz writes:

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