Thanks for your comment, Carrie. to name them, it´s the old lady doing money-changing buisness ( i beliebve she´s called erblich) and the “artist” who makes akiva paint for him (i forgot his name). BUT – I don’t think Yerushalmim even shave their heads (these are not hasidim, but rather charedim) so honestly, I have no idea! Faced with guilt, Akiva proposes marriage and they get engaged. Some people just love to sound off and make the next person sound wrong, stupid, petty, BIG EGO, etc. Giti Weiss, the daughter and the sister of the Shtisel's says goodbye to her husband Lippe Weiss, who flew to Argentina for six months as part of his job as a butcher. I do hope she gets more happier parts though. (I just started the second season.) This is a way to make a distant people more relatable, somewhat comical, and now easier to dismiss. Kveller stated in June 2020 that production of Season 3 has begun. Flip the script for a second. We believe this may be the beginning of the redemption. I really find that confusing.

I truly appreciate the humanity that is created and I think for your average secular Jew/non-Jew, it’s an awesome way to build a bridge and even see admirable aspects to a life so very foreign to them. I had to "ration" watching Shtisel realizing that too much was going on to be resolved in season 2, episode 12 and that would be the end of it. Her: Really? They have a Jewish / Israrli setting but are all about human nature too. Anyone who thinks it represents all of Judaism is just as likely to watch a show in Arabic and think it’s representative of all segments of all Arabic-speaking countries. Thanks for your comment. And made-for-TV is usually worse than that. I really wish you had had the courtesy to put ‘spoiler alert’ at the top of your post…. Maybe I give people too much credit, but I feel the majority of viewers understand this is not a documentary but a drama loosely based on a bit of reality. Isn’t Wearing a Wig Over Hair (Especially if the Wig is Nicer Than the Hair) Pointless. That’s not a fault with a single show but with the way some people view “others.” The same problem lies with a show about Jew in the City, ie you… It represents one segment of a multi-faceted society. This leads to the next point. ), @catholic mom. Conversely, we polled 600 of our readers a few years ago and 50% of the non-observant ones told us that our content had inspired them to either become more religious or consider doing so. Shabbos was great but that was it. Why?

And I don’t find explaining my life to a friend to be the biggest bother. Is that typical of some jewish communities?. I don’t think most people do. From that perspective, the popularity of Shtisel in the US may not be helpful.

I loved Shtisel. Not because I have a need to proselytize, because I really don’t. Personally I only saw a few episodes, so all my friends argue with my take. In other words, Netflix should consider a show about a Jew in the City!

Two shekels worth.

And the creator of the show has similar concerns to me.

The enraged Shulem expels Kiva from his home. Having such strict and insular orthodoxy popularized will likely dissuade a number of Jews from exploring observance since they will paint with a broad brush and orthodoxy will remain beyond where they could see themselves. I wanted/needed to be in a place where Yiddishkeit was the primary focus (yes, some of this appeared in my comment about communities). They make a point of it in the show to explain the greater openness to the secular world demonstrated by the characters in the show. Once they start up with this show being altruistic and barrier busting, I say it’s time for a reality check and a pushback. As it is, switching to kosher, keeping shabbos, being modest are major life changes. The brilliance, and danger of this show is the carefulness used in not being disrespectful to the naked eye. Thanks for your comment, Shay.

Because we use these pages to show all that one CAN do within the bounds of halacha, all the ways traditional Jewish wisdom can bring sanity to an often scary world. I thought it was very obvious the actors are secular? I know many Jews who love this show…NOT ME! All of those things can be true while this next part is true: I’ve been on both sides of this great divide and the stereotypes in this show are awful. The problem that I have with this film is that it gives the impression that orthodoxy = dysfunction; displaying such dysfunction in a culture that is otherwise not known to the secular world is misguided. This friend is due with her second child soon and was feeling nervous about the impending delivery. As I said, I enjoy the show as a good piece of entertainment. Our men’s peyos are just sideburns, our women wear longer and more stylish wigs, and no women shave their head. Me: I hear you, and I guess it’s all relative, but there are actually significant differences between their practices and approaches and ours. “While there is extreme poverty in the world of Shtisel, according to the Pew Study, the modern Orthodox community is the most affluent of all the Jewish communities.”. It’s a brilliant couvert exploitation. She received her Bachelor in Arts from Columbia University in Philosophy and lives with her husband and four children minutes from the George Washington Bridge. We don’t get engaged on the first, second, or even third date! Shulem is also on the quest for love and maintains a certain relationship (Mainly includes shared meals) with Aliza, a divorced secretary who works in his Talmud Torah. It’s not that I don’t love fiction — I do and have read most of the classics of English, German, and Russian literature. did anyone else have similar feelings while watching the show, or was it just me because of the awful history of the country i live in? What that means is they set upon the community of Meah Seharim and film that community with hidden cameras.

They meet once at the insistence of Akiva, and she refuses to continue.

The Israeli television drama centered around an orthodox Jewish family living in Jerusalem. I binge watched the whole thing in 10 days! The scripts they read and interpret are not.

The next day the event would be protested and scathing articles would be written on the disrespect and manipulation shown to these G-d fearing people. The point I’m making is that my husband and i throughly enjoyed binge watching 24 episodes sun titles and all and that was hard going believe me. She works as a babysitter for a secular woman and then exchanges money at home. So in that regard, the show is good. I imagine she asked herself “Who has birthed the most children that I know?” and she realized it was, in fact, her sole Orthodox friend. And on the entertainment side of things, the show is great. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. I honestly think it does a great job of showing a segment of Judaism and humanizing it in terms of ‘here’s religious people dealing with the stuff everyone else is”. hello, i´m from germany and i´ve just started watching “shtisel” because of actress shira haas (rachima in “shtisel”), whose outstanding acting impressed me in “unorthodox”. So many people who never saw beyond the black hat and long coat are forced to acknowledge that these are people with challenges and feelings and emotions. Meant to say “pretty much zero FICTION.” Non-fiction is pretty much all that I read or watch shows about now. We never watch British soaps. I’d love to see a show like that get more attention. I actually loved the show just for its entertainment value. I understand the show has no responsibility to be anything be entertaining and authentic – which it is. Whether or not if those particular practicing Jewish people in the show are true to their practising beliefs we wouldn’t know but it was entertaining to us and learnt a lot. I respect your views on what you consider to be an ideal for observant Jews.

So that is all I want – for this information to be known and accessible to any Jew, and they can do with it what they want. So while Shtisel is an entertaining show which has done some good in humanizing the otherwise reviled “ultra-orthodox” Jew,  it does a fair amount of damage in terms of making stringent practices seem like “Orthodox” practices and popularizing the idea that observant Jewish life is automatically dysfunctional. Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series premiered on 29 June 2013 on yes Oh.It commenced distribution via the online streaming service Netflix in 2018.

Then admitting that to a room full of people? My non-orthodox friend thought that my life is Shtisel. She was named one of NJOP’s Top Ten Jewish Influencers and was one of the Jewish Week’s 36 under 36. I lived in Israel for a year and even I know the difference. But where I could still be me, someone who has never fit into a round peg in her life. I wonder what those above who chided Allison for writing this article would respond to what you just wrote. So if there were a show where there were several types of Orthodox families featured, I think that would be fascinating to see how they cope with different life challenges and where their boundaries are.