A window into Jewish life
Home, school, neighborhood, holidays, history, creativity, gatherings, and public action—each film accompanied by context that explains what it reveals and how far its perspective reaches.
One collection, many parts of life
Family life, education, work, the calendar, historical memory, music, communal gatherings, and public conviction accumulate into a widening human picture.
Showing 20 films
Peter Santenello
A street-level visit through Williamsburg, with conversations about family, work, education, neighborhood life, and the boundaries between the community and the wider city.
Frieda Vizel with Pearl
A Williamsburg great-grandmother welcomes a visitor into her home and explains the Shabbos table, religious books, family photographs, and kosher kitchen.
Frieda Vizel
A former student works through surviving school materials and recalls the education she received while growing up in Kiryas Joel.
Frieda Vizel
A quiet neighborhood view of menorahs shining from family windows on the eighth night of Chanukah.
Living Lchaim
Mendy Hershkowitz describes growing up in Monroe, discovering music, learning his craft, building the Freilach Band, and balancing innovation with inherited musical language.
Shira Choir with Shloma Zalmen Horowitz and Mendy Hershkowitz Band
A polished performance of a Chabad niggun by artists deeply connected to the Satmar and wider Hasidic music world.
Shira Choir and collaborating artists
A large ensemble carries Satmar melodies through contemporary arranging, vocal craft, and communal memory.
Shea Kaller Band
Shea Kaller and his band shape a live medley from the work of composer and arranger Mona Rosenblum.
Archival footage
An early moving-image record of Kiryas Joel while a new Satmar settlement and its institutions were still taking shape.
Der Muzikant
The 2023 Kiryas Joel gathering led by Rabbi Aharon Teitelbaum brings music, dancing, families, a public address, and the lighting of the bonfire into one communal event.
Official event video uploaded by shiezoli
A mass gathering organized around Satmar opposition to Zionism, showing the public, disciplined, institutionally organized form that protest can take.
B&H Photo Video
B&H traces its growth from the small Manhattan camera store opened by Blimie and Herman Schreiber in 1973 to an internationally known destination for professional photography, video, audio, and technology.
Shmiel Indig Public Relations
A participant-produced walk through the 2025 business expo of Satmar's Williamsburg-centered branch, moving among exhibitors, working conversations, products, services, and the dense relationships that connect a communal economy.
PR Productions
A floor-level visit to the business convention of Satmar's Kiryas Joel-centered branch, moving among exhibitors, conversations, products, services, and professional relationships.
Frieda Vizel Clips & Bonus Content
A guided visit through the production of Der Yid and the many newspaper sections and magazines assembled into a weekly Yiddish publication.
Hatzalah-Thon, with film by Rivkin Media
Hatzalah volunteers recall the medical response that carried a neighborhood ambulance service into the immense emergency at the World Trade Center.
Hatzoloh Montreal
A local chapter introduces the volunteers, training, equipment, dispatch, and readiness behind round-the-clock neighborhood emergency response.
Emergency Vehicles
A Kiryas Joel Hatzalah ambulance moves through heavy traffic while responding to a motor-vehicle collision.
CBS Los Angeles
A local-news introduction to volunteer emergency responders serving several Orthodox neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
WellTab
WellTab CEO Joel Friedman recounts how a COVID-era response to hospital isolation became a purpose-built connection between patients and their families.
People & Institutions