Portrayals of Orthodox Jews in media have been largely focused around a leaving-the-community narrative, but critics say that’s not an accurate picture of observant Jewish life.
Shira Haas brings the vulnerability and soulfulness seen in previous roles to her portrayal of a young Hasidic woman who leaves her community for a life in Berlin.
Few would have guessed that an Israeli television show about an insular ultra-Orthodox family living in the crowded Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem would become a