Inside a Satmar girls' school education
Frieda Vizel
A former student works through surviving school materials and recalls the education she received while growing up in Kiryas Joel.
EducationChildhoodKiryas Joel
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Inside a Hasidic Jewish home
A Williamsburg great-grandmother welcomes a visitor into her home and explains the Shabbos table, religious books, family photographs, and kosher kitchen.
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What this film opens up
How religious practice lives in objects, rooms, food, memory, and preparation rather than only in formal statements of belief.
Outside the frame. Frieda Vizel's companion series places Pearl within Satmar Williamsburg. This remains one household visit, and the film does not identify a particular Satmar leadership branch or present every home as identical.
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Living with balance: Mendy Hershkowitz
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.
MusicUpbringingWork
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