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The Chabad-Lubavitch community has been the subject of a number of films produced by others. These films | The Chabad-Lubavitch community has been the subject of a number of films produced by others. These films documentaries made in 1966 (''Chassidism - the Joyful path to G-d''),<ref>Sunday, February 6, 2011 A moving picture is worth many thousands of words. Eli Rubin.</ref> 1974 (''Religious America: Lubavitch''<ref name="PBS hasid"/> and ''The Spark''),<ref name="PBS hasid">Documentary Films about Hasidism. PBS. Archived May 3, 2015.</ref><ref name=NYmag80s>Movies: Theater Guide. New York Magazine. September 15, 1986. 176.</ref> 1979 (''The Return: A Hasidic Experience'')<ref>www.thejewishreview.org. “An Interview with the Slopeover Rebbe”</ref><ref>www.jta.org. The return a Hassidic experience a documentary focusing. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 29 April 1981.</ref><ref>The Return: a Hassidic experience. June 18, 2020. OCLC: 50902286.</ref><ref name=NYmag80s/> ''What Is a Jew?'' – a 1989 documentary on Chabad produced by the BBC for the series “Everyman”. ''King of Crown Heights'' – a 60-minute, 1993 film on Lubavitcher Hasidim by Columbia University student Roggerio Gabbai<ref name="PBS hasid"/> ''Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities'' – a 1993 TV adaptation of the one-person play by Anna Deavere Smith. It explores the Black and Hasidic viewpoints of people connected directly and indirectly to the Crown Heights riots.<ref name="Smith, Anna Deavere 1993">Smith, Anna Deavere. ''Fires in the Mirror''. New York City: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.</ref> The adaptation was produced by PBS as part of its American Playhouse series.<ref>www.nytimes.com. 1993-04-28. Review/Television; One-Woman Show on Black vs. Jew. John J. O'Connor. April 28, 1993. The New York Times.</ref> ''The Return of Sarah's Daughters'' – a 1997 documentary film contrasting three Jewish women, one of whom joins Chabad.<ref>www.pbs.org. A Life Apart: Hasidism In America. PBS.</ref> ''Blacks and Jews (film)|Blacks and Jews'' – A 1997 documentary written and directed by Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow on the Crown Heights riot and other incidents involving intergroup conflict.<ref>[|url=jwa.org/thisweek/jul/29/1997/deborah-kaufman|title=Broadcast of Deborah Kaufman's "Blacks and Jews" | Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org</ref> ''Welcome to the Waks Family'' – a 2003 documentary of a Chabad family in Australia.<ref>[|url=shop.nfsa.gov.au/welcome-to-the-waks-family|title=Welcome to the Waks Family|website=NFSA Online Shop</ref> ''Leaving the Fold'' – a 2008 documentary on young men and women who left the Hasidic Jewish community. The film was directed by Eric R. Scott and the stories featured include former Hasidic Jews living in the United States, Israel and Canada.<ref>[|url=smh.com.au/national/leaving-the-fold-20080623-2vlh.html|title=Leaving the fold|first=Rachelle|last=Unreich|date=June 23, 2008|website=The Sydney Morning Herald</ref><ref>[ |title=Leaving The Fold |url=7thart.com/press/leavingthefold/Leaving%20the%20Fold_PRESSKIT.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=web.archive.org/web/20230907113013/7thart.com/press/leavingthefold/Leaving%20the%20Fold_PRESSKIT.pdf |archive-date=2023-09-07 |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=SEVENTH ART RELEASING</ref> Featured in the film are two young men from a Chabad family in Montreal as well as a French Lubavitch rabbi. ''Gut Shabbes Vietnam'' – a 2008 Documentary film|documentary on a Chabad family in Vietnam. Written and directed by Ido and Yael Zand.<ref>[|url=loc.gov/film-and-videos/?fa=location:vietnam%7Csubject:vietnam%7Clanguage:hebrew&all=true|title=Search results from Film, Video, Vietnam, Vietnam, Hebrew|website=Library of Congress</ref> ''Shekinah Rising'' – a 70 min, 2013 documentary exploring the perspectives of the female students of a Chabad school in Montreal<ref>[|url=theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/secrets-and-lives-of-hasidic-women/article18703691/|title=Secrets and lives of Hasidic women|work=The Globe and Mail</ref><ref>[ |url=thesuburban.com/news/articles/?id=article02642 |title=New film Shekinah provides unprecedented access to the world of young Hasidic women |publisher=TheSuburban.com |date=October 11, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=archive.today/20131220142040/thesuburban.com/news/articles/?id=article02642 |archive-date=December 20, 2013</ref><ref>[ |url=cjnews.com/index.php?q=node/116289 |last=Arnold |first=Janice |title=Film presents chassidic women's attitudes to intimacy |work=The Canadian Jewish News |date=October 20, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015</ref> ''Kathmandu (TV series)|Kathmandu'' – a 2012 television series aired on Israeli television based on the lives of the Chabad emissaries in Kathmandu, Nepal.<ref>[|url=newvoices.org/2012/12/05/zany-heartfelt-kathmandu-evokes-the-soul-of-jewish-culture-in-nepal/|title=Zany, Heartfelt 'Kathmandu' Evokes the Soul of Jewish Culture in Nepal|date=December 5, 2012</ref> ''Project 2x1'' – a 30 min, 2013 documentary on the Chabad Hasidim and West Indian residents of Crown Heights, using Google Glass in place of conventional camera techniques<ref name="patch">[ |url=prospectheights.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/crown-heights-google-glass-doc-premieres-next-month |last=Hampton |first=Matthew |title=Crown Heights 'Google Glass' Doc Premieres Next Month |work=Prospect Heights Patch |date=November 26, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015</ref><ref>[ |url=psfk.com/2013/10/google-glass-documentary-crown-heights.html/ |archive-url=archive.today/20131219031938/psfk.com/2013/10/google-glass-documentary-crown-heights.html/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 19, 2013 |last=Piras |first=Lara |title=Google Glass Filmed Documentary Goes Where Normal Camera Crews Can't. |publisher=psfk.com |date=October 9, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015 </ref><ref name="Gotham">[ |url=gothamist.com/2013/10/07/crown_heights_documentary_shot_on_g.php |last=Evans |first=Lauren |title=Intrepid 20-Somethings Examine Crown Heights Through Google Glass |publisher=Gothamist |date=October 7, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=web.archive.org/web/20141225022808/gothamist.com/2013/10/07/crown_heights_documentary_shot_on_g.php |archive-date=December 25, 2014</ref><ref name="DNA glass">[ |url=dnainfo.com/new-york/20131007/crown-heights/crown-heights-documentary-shot-completely-with-google-glass |last=Sharp |first=Sonja |title=Crown Heights Documentary Claims to be First Ever Shot With Google Glass |publisher=DNAInfo |date=October 7, 2013 |access-date=January 13, 2015 |url-status=dead [web.archive.org/web/20141104174025/dnainfo.com/new-york/20131007/crown-heights/crown-heights-documentary-shot-completely-with-google-glass. Archived November 4, 2014].</ref> ''Outback Rabbis'' – (2018) 50 min television segment by Australian TV network, SBS, covering the regional and rural Australia (RARA) program of Chabad. Directed by Danny Ben-Moshe. Featured on the SBS "Untold Australia" series. ''The Rabbi Goes West'' – a 2019 documentary on a Chabad rabbi who moves to Montana.<ref>"The Rabbi Goes West". www.jfi.org.</ref> ''Guns and Moses'' – a 2024 film produced by Salvador Litvak and Nina Litvak. The film portrays Rabbi Mo (played by Mark Feuerstein), a Chabad emissary, and his wife, Rebbetzin Hindy (played by Alona Tal), whose community is targeted by a white supremacist who shoots and kills a congregant. Rabbi Mo later trains in the use of firearms and seeks to find the killer. The film was released to Jewish film festivals in 2024.<ref>www.jewishjournal.com. "Guns and Moses: The Heroic Hasid". ''Jewish Journal''. Accessed 22 June 2024.</ref> The film's original title was ''Man in the Long Black Coat''.<ref>www.variety.com. Mark Feuerstein, Neal McDonough, Dermot Mulroney, Christopher Lloyd Starring in ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’ (EXCLUSIVE)]. ''Variety''. Accessed 22 June 2024.</ref> | ||
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