Summary:An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power. When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation fallsAn accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power. When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a savior after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control. This tests the women’s friendships and creates an almost Lysistrata-type rift between the community’s women and men. [Menemsha Films]…Expand
An Israeli film that does not escape the formulaic tones but offers a good story centered on a theme that must remain brutally relevant in our times, where religious extremism always ruins things like the coexistence of this community, do not submit, even if you believe in some sort of God.An Israeli film that does not escape the formulaic tones but offers a good story centered on a theme that must remain brutally relevant in our times, where religious extremism always ruins things like the coexistence of this community, do not submit, even if you believe in some sort of God. God is what you personally make of it, not what you're being told it is.…Expand