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After the death of his grandfather and older brother, a young man brings his girlfriend to Passover Seder where she learns about the family's well-contested Jewish traditions and.
A Jewish family in Brooklyn must contemplate their own zealous beliefs when it develops into a mental disorder in their six-year-old son.
A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.
When a middle-aged man from a Jewish household goes to visit his father in the hospital, he learns that his father was not born Jewish but unofficially converted and was never circumcised. The man must now find a way to have his father circumcised so he can be buried next to his late wife in a cemetery only for Orthodox Jews.
A seventeen-year-old Jewish boy reflects on his life as he lies gushing out blood, on the brink of death, in Germany at the end of World War II.
An elderly man in a synagogue tells the story of his son who had an evil laugh, and for whom he has been searching for more than twenty years.
Marty, a freelance artist and self-proclaimed pretend Jew, has a religious realization as he acts as the shomer for his dead uncle in an off-beat funeral home.
When a middle-aged man is visited by his wife’s two orthodox friends from Jerusalem, the husband finds his secular Jewish lifestyle in South Florida under attack. To clear the air between them, the two couples smoke weed.
A man's birthday gift to his flamboyantly Russian Jewish father-in-law elicits both an unexpected reaction and a series of colorful, revelatory anecdotes.
When a Hasidic man finds a severed finger in a bag of non-kosher chips, he decides to track down the finger’s owner.