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Unorthodox / written by Anna Wexler and Nadja Oertelt.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Oertelt, Nadja, author.
- Wexler, Anna, author.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orthodox Judaism.
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Spiritual life.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Unorthodox Productions, LLC, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- At sixteen, Anna Wexler broke away from her Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey, rejecting its religious doctrine and social restrictions, and severing ties to her family. She ran away from home, slept on the streets, and experimented with sex and drugs alongside friends who had also left the Orthodox world. A common rite of passage for Orthodox Jews involves spending a year post-high school studying in Israel. Anna discovered that all her rebellious friends who swore off a religious lifestyle still made this pilgrimage, and each returned more committed than ever to their Jewish heritage. Anna sets out to document what transpires during this year in Israel and to discover what takes place on this journey that returns even the most rebellious teens to a lifestyle of Orthodox Judaism. This documentary follows three teens on their adventure abroad, through the eyes of Anna, who is forced to confront her own religious identity along the way.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 17, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1112137924
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