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Gold family on Sukkot (1)

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Gold Family On Sukkot (1). Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194920.

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Daum, M., & Rudavsky, O. Gold family on Sukkot (1). Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194920.

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Daum, Menachem, and Oren Rudavsky. Gold Family On Sukkot (1). Daum, Menachem. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://brooklyn.illumira.net/show.php?pid=njcore:194920.

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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. The Gold family, Belzer Hasidim, erecting a sukkah in their backyard for Sukkot (harvest festival commemorating the temporary shelters used by the Israelites during their wandering in the wilderness). (Part 1) People performing shlogn kaporas (a rite involving live chickens that takes place on the eve of Yom Kippur). 00:00:03 - (Partial audio) Gold family children and their mother, Chips Gold, building their sukkah, including installing lighting, hanging decorations. Boys playing on a trampoline, climbing a pear tree. Hebrew sign on door: "Welcome." A clock with a portrait of the Belzer Rebbe. 00:14:37 - One of the girls explains some of the decorations: the uzpisin, the four "guests" invited into the Sukkah (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, David). She plays basketball with one of her brothers. 00:18:00 - People performing the rite of shogn kaporas at the "Kapurah Center."
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