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Moscow street scenes/Shabbos dinner in Lazar home in Moscow (4)/Preparations for public Hanukkah event
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Moscow Street Scenes/shabbos Dinner In Lazar Home In Moscow (4)/preparations for Public Hanukkah Event. Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730254.APA citation style
(1993). Moscow street scenes/Shabbos dinner in Lazar home in Moscow (4)/Preparations for public Hanukkah event. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730254.Chicago citation style
Moscow Street Scenes/shabbos Dinner In Lazar Home In Moscow (4)/preparations for Public Hanukkah Event. Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730254.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. Moscow street scenes. Havdalah (ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath) and preparations for Hanukkah party in the home of Lubavitcher (Chabad) shlichim (emissaries) in Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar and Chanie Lazar. (Part 4) Audio only continuation of interview with mohel. 12/9/1993. 00:00:00 - Outdoor puppet show, Moscow. 00:03:19 - Lazar children in their home. Berel Lazar davening (praying) in dining room. Guests davening. Portrait of Lubavitcher Rebbe on wall. Havdalah, the ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath. 00:11:14 - Bookshelves in Lazar home. Chanie explains that she needs to prepare for a Hanukkah party for women that she teaches. Rabbi Lazar holds one of his young daughters in his arms and gives her a bentsher (booklet containing grace after meals and other blessings related to mealtime) and davens. (English) 00:13:13 - Close-ups of sleeping child, Chaya Lazar. Rabbi Lazar lets another daughter drink grape juice from the kiddush cup and sings nigun (traditional melody) to her. Chanie prepares a Hanukkah grab-bag for the party. (English) 00:18:03 - Rabbi Lazar on the phone about the satellite dish for the upcoming Hanukkah event and about coordinating the live simultaneous lighting of the menorah. (English) 00:22:18 - Audio only. Continuation of Rabbi Lazar's phone conversation in Russian. Wild sound. Doesn't match footage. Interview with mohel in English about his training to be a mohel and about how in Soviet times, circumcisions in Russia were performed clandestinely by old religious men assisted by Jewish surgeons. He was trained in US by American doctors. Why he became a Lubavitcher Hasid. Almost all work in Russia was by Chabad. Only in the last year have brises begun to be done on baby boys at eight days old. Nowadays also men/boys start their journey to becoming more Jewish with a bris.
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