A Film by Cheli Rosenberg
(Israel, 2006, 50 Minutes, Color, Hebrew, English subtitles)
Members of the "Modern Orthodox" community face an ongoing challenge in attempting to simultaneously participate in two highly divergent cultures - the secular and the religious.
For over one hundred years the community has striven, in varying degrees, to maneuver between these two irreconcilable worlds.
A clear outcome of their exposure to the changing institution of marriage and family life in the secular world has been the astronomical rise in the number of non-married adult modern orthodox Jews between the ages of 20 and 40.
This film attempts to understand how individual members of the modern orthodox community reconcile themselves to a delay in marriage as they embrace certain ideas such as freedom of choice, self-realization, and prosperity within the religious discourse.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Jewish Motives Film Festival 2007, Warsaw Israeli Film Festival, New York 2007 Haifa International Film Festival 2006