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Rhawnhurst rabbi: Someone torched my SUV

| October 1, 2014

VINNY VELLA, Daily News Staff Writer vellav@phillynews.com, 215-854-2513 Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 12:16 AM RABBI DAVID KUSHNER is having a rough start to the Jewish New Year. "We're trying to look at this situation positively," Kushner, of Rhawnhurst, told the Daily News last night.

What the Day of Atonement Meant to One Hasidic Woman

| October 1, 2014

Like White Ghosts in the Mikveh courtesy of frimet goldberger Clean Slate for Hashem: Frimet Goldberger wears the hand-embroidered cotton apron she received from her mother-in-law while lighting Sabbath candles.

'Felix and Meira' ('Felix et Meira'): San Sebastian Review

| October 1, 2014

Courtesy of Toronto International Film Festival Opposites attract -- very slowly Toronto Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema); San Sebastian Film Festival (Competition) Hadas Yaron, Matin Dubreuil, Luzer Twersky Maxime Giroux A married Hasidic woman and a single and penniless man in early middle age who has just lost his very rich father slowly -- very slowly -- fall for each other in Felix and Meira (Felix et Meira), from French-Canadian director Maxime Giroux. Like the directors previous feature, Jo for Jonathan, this is a minutely observed story of great modesty that thrives on transformations so tiny, the film deserves to be seen on the big screen. However, beyond local and festival engagements, this unspectacular story of the forbidden attraction between a very patient man and a reticent woman will be very hard to market


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