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Dec 22, 2023 · Orthodox Jews strictly adhere to traditional Jewish laws and practices, while Unorthodox Jews deviate from or don't strictly follow these traditions.
- Is It Good For The Jews?
- Esty Is Incredible!
- How Does All This Play Out in Real Life?
- Do Other Religions Have Similar situations?
- Let’s Get Back to The Show
- ‘Neither Is A Monolith’
- ‘Every Family Is Different’
- What Role Art?
I worry that the show sets up a stark good (secular friends, life in Berlin) and bad (religious Jewish community). Might this permit anti-Semitism among audiences? I worry it could in the absence of a depiction of other, more compassionate/open Jewish community. — Anonymous Karolinski: Anti-Semitism is rarely the consequence of entertainment made b...
Shira Haas is absolutely stunning in this; did you always want her for the role? Did you find her through “Shtisel” or her powerful performance in “The Zookeeper’s Wife”? — Esther Kustanowitz The actress who plays Esty is extraordinary; her facial expressions deeply evocative and real. But her body type is so childlike and unique, and her walk sugg...
Chavie, has the legal system been more supportive of the women leaving in terms of having access and custody to their children? — Juliet Gerstenfeld Weisberger: Sadly, no. There is a lot that the courts don’t understand about people who leave ultra-Orthodoxyregardless of their gender, and judges tend to err on the side of maintaining the status quo...
Is there a parallel between the Unorthodox movement and those who have left other fundamentalist communities like the Amish and LDS? Has there been any collaboration between them? —Ruth Goldstein I wonder if folks could comment on parallels with ultra-Orthodox Judaism and other highly conservative or ‘extreme’ (for lack of a better term) religions....
I am interested in the decision to make the only non-Satmar Jew in the series be an Israeli Jew? There are so many different types of Jews in the world. Was there ever a thought to include a reform or conservative American or European Jew? —Anonymous Karolinski: We actually did! Vivian Dropkin, her piano teacher is actually Jewish, but Esty’s famil...
What do you hope audiences (especially non-observant or non-Jewish ones) will learn about Jewish or Hasidic life from their viewing of Unorthodox? — Esther Kustanowitz Karolinski: That neither is a monolith. That there is not one kind of Jew or Jewish life and that we, like every other community, are flawed. And that people yearn for something else...
Do typical “drop-outs” of the Hasidic community lose their family relationships, or are there family reconciliations over time? —Jerry Katzoff Weisberger: The short answer is that every family is different and every relationship is different. I have seen OTD folks find ways to maintain meaningful relationships with their ultra-Orthodox families, bu...
Some of the stories we’ve seen about the ultra-Orthodox community (from “My Name is Asher Lev” and “A Price Above Rubies” through “Shtisel” and “Unorthodox”) feature some type of art as the “corrupting”/”mind-expanding” influence. Do you think that if the ultra-Orthodox provided more access to culture (music, art, song/voice) perhaps within some of...
Apr 30, 2020 · “Unorthodox” is four hours of unabashed bashing of Orthodox Judaism. It takes practices that have profound spiritual meaning completely out of context, debasing a religion which has stood the ...
Apr 7, 2020 · Netflix's "Unorthodox" recreates the customs of the Hasidic Jewish community in painstaking detail. We went behind the scenes to find out how they did it.
- meredith.blake@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Sep 22, 2021 · Among younger Jews, there's a race toward both extremes: 40% of adult Jews under age 30 identify as Nones, while 17% of them are Orthodox, both the highest among any age category; 11%...
- Deena Yellin
The Hasidim, or "pious ones" in Hebrew, belong to a special movement within Orthodox Judaism, a movement that, at its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, claimed the allegiance of millions in Eastern and Central Europe--perhaps a majority of East European Jews.
Apr 28, 2020 · Netflix’s new miniseries Unorthodox opens with a shot of a dangling eruv wire. Familiar to those who live near Hasidic populations, but eerie when devoid of context, this sets the tone for much of what follows. The eruv has come loose, which means that Esther (“Esty”) Shapiro is not allowed to carry the satchel she has packed in a hurry.
