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** Non-observant musical productions that focus on Chabad include a 2022 Israeli musical ''HaChabadnikim'' which follows two young men from [[Kfar Chabad]] who go to Tel Aviv.<ref>"HaChabadnikim." ''cameri.co.il''. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023.</ref>
** Non-observant musical productions that focus on Chabad include a 2022 Israeli musical ''HaChabadnikim'' which follows two young men from [[Kfar Chabad]] who go to Tel Aviv.<ref>"HaChabadnikim." ''cameri.co.il''. Accessed 12 Nov. 2023.</ref>
* '''Literature''' – Chabad poet Zvi Yair (Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz) authored poems on Chabad Chassidus topics including [[Ratzo VaShuv (Running and Returning)|Ratzo VaShuv]] (spiritual yearning). Chabad poet Yehoshua November has published books of poetry with Chasidic themes.<ref>"Yehoshua November". Chabad.org.</ref>
* '''Literature''' – Chabad poet Zvi Yair (Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz) authored poems on Chabad Chassidus topics including [[Ratzo VaShuv (Running and Returning)|Ratzo VaShuv]] (spiritual yearning). Chabad poet Yehoshua November has published books of poetry with Chasidic themes.<ref>"Yehoshua November". Chabad.org.</ref>
** Non-observant writings include a Yiddish novel by Dr Fishl Schneersohn, a psychiatrist, pedagogical theorist, and descendant of the Alter Rebbe, who authored ''Chaim Gravitzer: The Tale of the Downfallen One from the World of Chabad''. The novel explores the spiritual struggle of a Chabad Hasid who doubts his faith and finally finds peace in doing charitable work.<ref>Chaim Gravitzer (The Tale of the Downfallen One): From the World of Chabad. ingeveb.org.</ref>
** Non-observant writings include a Yiddish novel by Dr Fishl Schneersohn, a psychiatrist, pedagogical theorist, and descendant of the Alter Rebbe, who authored ''Chaim Gravitzer: The Tale of the Downfallen One from the World of Chabad''. The novel explores the spiritual struggle of a Chabad Hasid who doubts his faith and finally finds peace in doing charitable work.<ref>Chaim Gravitzer (The Tale of the Downfallen One): From the World of Chabad. ingeveb.org.</ref> And American Jewish novelist Chaim Potok authored a work ''My Name is Asher Lev'' in which a Chasidic teen struggles between his artistic passions and the norms of the community. The "Ladover" community is a thinly veiled reference to the Lubavitcher community in [[Crown Heights]].<ref>Hirsch Succeeds with Theatrical Production of 'My Name is Asher Lev'. 29 August 2012. Atlanta Jewish Times.</ref><ref>Cochrum, Alan Morris. CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: JACOB FIGURES AND THEMES IN THE NOVELS OF CHAIM POTOK. Accessed 22 October 2023. ResearchCommons.</ref>
American Jewish novelist Chaim Potok authored a work ''My Name is Asher Lev'' in which a Chasidic teen struggles between his artistic passions and the norms of the community. The "Ladover" community is a thinly veiled reference to the Lubavitcher community in [[Crown Heights]].<ref>Hirsch Succeeds with Theatrical Production of 'My Name is Asher Lev'. 29 August 2012. Atlanta Jewish Times.</ref><ref>Cochrum, Alan Morris. CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: JACOB FIGURES AND THEMES IN THE NOVELS OF CHAIM POTOK. Accessed 22 October 2023. ResearchCommons.</ref>


===Film and television===
===Film and television===
The Chabad-Lubavitch community and its outreach is featured in many films produced by others. These films include films 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/> 1989 (''What Is a Jew?''),<ref>Everyman: What Is a Jew? Sun 29th Jan 1989. BBC One London (genome.ch.bbc.co.uk).</ref> 1993 (''King of Crown Heights''<ref name="PBS hasid"/> and ''Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities''),<ref name="Smith, Anna Deavere 1993">Smith, Anna Deavere. ''Fires in the Mirror''. New York City: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.</ref><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> 1997 (''The Return of Sarah's Daughters''<ref>www.pbs.org. A Life Apart: Hasidism In America. PBS.</ref> and ''Blacks and Jews''),<ref>[|url=jwa.org/thisweek/jul/29/1997/deborah-kaufman|title=Broadcast of Deborah Kaufman's "Blacks and Jews" &#124; Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org</ref> 2003 (''Welcome to the Waks Family''),<ref>www.shop.nfsa.gov.au. Welcome to the Waks Family. NFSA Online Shop.</ref> 2008 (''Leaving the Fold''<ref>www.smh.com.au. Leaving the fold. Rachelle Unreich. June 23, 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald.</ref><ref>Leaving The Fold. www.7thart.com. Archived 2023-09-07. SEVENTH ART RELEASING.</ref> and ''Gut Shabbes Vietnam''),<ref>www.loc.gov. Search results from Film, Video, Vietnam, Vietnam, Hebrew. Library of Congress.</ref> 2012 (''Kathmandu''),<ref>www.newvoices.org. Zany, Heartfelt 'Kathmandu' Evokes the Soul of Jewish Culture in Nepal. December 5, 2012.</ref> 2013 (''Shekinah Rising''<ref>www.theglobeandmail.com. Secrets and lives of Hasidic women. The Globe and Mail.</ref><ref>www.thesuburban.com. New film Shekinah provides unprecedented access to the world of young Hasidic women. TheSuburban.com. October 11, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref><ref>www.cjnews.com. Arnold, Janice. Film presents chassidic women's attitudes to intimacy. The Canadian Jewish News. October 20, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref> and ''Project 2x1''),<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>
The Chabad-Lubavitch community and its outreach is featured in many films produced by others. These films include films 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/> 1989 (''What Is a Jew?''),<ref>Everyman: What Is a Jew? Sun 29th Jan 1989. BBC One London (genome.ch.bbc.co.uk).</ref> 1993 (''King of Crown Heights''<ref name="PBS hasid"/> and ''Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities''),<ref name="Smith, Anna Deavere 1993">Smith, Anna Deavere. ''Fires in the Mirror''. New York City: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993.</ref><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> 1997 (''The Return of Sarah's Daughters''<ref>www.pbs.org. A Life Apart: Hasidism In America. PBS.</ref> and ''Blacks and Jews''),<ref>[|url=jwa.org/thisweek/jul/29/1997/deborah-kaufman|title=Broadcast of Deborah Kaufman's "Blacks and Jews" &#124; Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org</ref> 2003 (''Welcome to the Waks Family''),<ref>www.shop.nfsa.gov.au. Welcome to the Waks Family. NFSA Online Shop.</ref> 2008 (''Leaving the Fold''<ref>www.smh.com.au. Leaving the fold. Rachelle Unreich. June 23, 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald.</ref><ref>Leaving The Fold. www.7thart.com. Archived 2023-09-07. SEVENTH ART RELEASING.</ref> and ''Gut Shabbes Vietnam''),<ref>www.loc.gov. Search results from Film, Video, Vietnam, Vietnam, Hebrew. Library of Congress.</ref> 2012 (''Kathmandu''),<ref>www.newvoices.org. Zany, Heartfelt 'Kathmandu' Evokes the Soul of Jewish Culture in Nepal. December 5, 2012.</ref> 2013 (''Shekinah Rising''<ref>www.theglobeandmail.com. Secrets and lives of Hasidic women. The Globe and Mail.</ref><ref>www.thesuburban.com. New film Shekinah provides unprecedented access to the world of young Hasidic women. TheSuburban.com. October 11, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref><ref>www.cjnews.com. Arnold, Janice. Film presents chassidic women's attitudes to intimacy. The Canadian Jewish News. October 20, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref> and ''Project 2x1''),<ref name="patch">Hampton, Matthew. Crown Heights 'Google Glass' Doc Premieres Next Month. Prospect Heights Patch. November 26, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref><ref>Piras, Lara. Google Glass Filmed Documentary Goes Where Normal Camera Crews Can't. www.psfk.com. October 9, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015.</ref><ref name="Gotham">Evans, Lauren. Intrepid 20-Somethings Examine Crown Heights Through Google Glass. The Gothamist. October 7, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015. www.gothamist.com.</ref><ref name="DNA glass">www.dnainfo.com. Sharp, Sonja. Crown Heights Documentary Claims to be First Ever Shot With Google Glass. DNAInfo. October 7, 2013. Accessed January 13, 2015. Archived November 4, 2014.</ref> 2018 (''Outback Rabbis''),<ref>Meet the two rabbis bringing Jewish people together in the Aussie outback. SBS. Gavin Scott. 25 July 2018. www.sbs.com.au.</ref> 2019 (''The Rabbi Goes West''),<ref>"The Rabbi Goes West". www.jfi.org.</ref> 2024 (''Guns and Moses'').<ref>www.jewishjournal.com. "Guns and Moses: The Heroic Hasid". ''Jewish Journal''. Accessed 22 June 2024.</ref><ref>The film's original title was ''Man in the Long Black Coat''. see 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>


== References ==
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