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The Women's Balcony (Hebrew: ישמח חתני) is a 2016 Israeli comedy film directed by Emil Ben-Shimon. [1] The film stars Evelin Hagoel, Yigal Naor, Orna Banai and Aviv Alush. The film follows a Mizrahi synagogue congregation in Jerusalem's Bukharan Quarter. The congregation is in disarray from building damage to their synagogue.
May 26, 2017 · The small Jewish community in “The Women’s Balcony” is a tight-knit one. When they talk, they don’t say “I,” they say “We.” They are not just a community, they are a “congregation,” with all that that implies to the faithful.
The Women's Balcony: Directed by Emil Ben-Shimon. With Evelin Hagoel, Igal Naor, Orna Banai, Einat Saruf. A bar mitzvah mishap causes a major rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Emil Ben-Shimon
- 2017-05-26
May 21, 2017 · “The Women’s Balcony” is a religious, feminist parable — albeit a nuanced one. The story is set in motion when the women’s balcony of the synagogue — an elevated section where the women sit at...
Mar 2, 2017 · As the title indicates, “The Women’s Balcony” is set in an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem. But though that world may seem monolithic to outsiders, as Nehama and director Emil...
Feb 22, 2017 · Set among a congregation of observant Jews in a quiet neighborhood in Jerusalem’s Old City, “The Women’s Balcony” begins with a bar mitzvah and ends with a wedding. But there’s plenty of tsuris in between, triggered by the collapse of the women’s balcony halfway through the bar mitzvah service.
May 25, 2017 · Directed by Emil Ben-Shimon. Comedy, Drama. 1h 36m. By Nicole Herrington. May 25, 2017. “Don’t you want us there?” an Israeli woman asks her husband in “The Women’s Balcony,” a charming...
