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Interview with Chanie Lazar in Moscow (2)
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Interview with Chanie Lazar In Moscow (2). Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194802.APA citation style
(1993). Interview with Chanie Lazar in Moscow (2). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194802.Chicago citation style
Interview with Chanie Lazar In Moscow (2). Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194802.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe. Interview with Chanie Lazar, the wife of Lubavitcher (Chabad) emissary Rabbi Berel Lazar, in Moscow. (Part 2) 12/9/1993. 00:00:03 - Interview with Chanie Lazar: About her work with women and girls in Moscow. About how the programs she and her husband run tie the Jewish community together. About Jewish modesty laws (women have to cover hair). She helps provide women with wigs. 00:03:21 - About serving as an informal matchmaker. About getting matched with her husband. About her four children. About Hasidim believing in having as many children as possible. 00:07:52 - About Chabad Hasidism as emphasizing joy in all aspects of life. 00:10:21 - About the elements of a traditional Shabbos meal. 00:11:27 - About the pride she takes in her husband's work. How God put us here on earth to help other people. 00:13:14 - About her family's shlichus (outreach mission) in Pittsburgh and how her siblings are spread out around the world doing shlichus. About the mitzvah mobile (vehicle for portable outreach activities) and stopping Jews on the street. 00:15:51 - About how every Jews has a pinteleh yid (a “Jewish” spark believed to reside within every Jew) in his/her neshoma (soul). 00:17:32 - About dance: men dance in synagogue in front of the Torah and women don't but they have their own times when they dance, separately, at weddings, for instance. 00:19:29 - About the differences in dress between different Hasidic groups. 00:20:00 - About how Jews, both men and women serve God all day long. Specific non-synagogue ways that women do this every day.
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