Jewish Love Stories
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Golden Voices
Movie
Raya and Victor have built a shared career as the Soviet Union's most beloved film voice actors. As the USSR collapses, the Jewish couple must immigrate to Israel and reinvent themselves to find new jobs — and new lives. A charming comedy about disrupting old dynamics, starting anew, and rediscov...
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Family in Transition
Movie
The story of a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely after their father finally decides to tell his family that he's a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, but just as it seems that life is back ...
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Minyan
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A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted gay men who open his imagination to the possibilities of love and the realities of loss — and explores th...
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Kafka
1 season
Watch the Complete Series Now Exclusively on ChaiFlicks! | It’s been 100 years since the death of legendary author Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883—June 3, 1924), and the time has come for an entertaining and humorous approach to his life and character.
ChaiFlicks is proud to present KAFKA, a six-epis...
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Yossi
Movie
Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's moving and empathetic sequel to his 2002 classic "Yossi & Jagger" finds Yossi (Ohad Knoller, SRUGIM) leading a sad existence after losing his partner Jagger on the battlefield. A chance encounter with a middle-aged woman linked to his past shakes up his oth...
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The Film Critic
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A playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre, THE FILM CRITIC follows Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés…until he finds himself living one. Riddled with ennui and the maladie du cinema, Tellez drifts from screenin...
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Blush
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Award-winning filmmaker Michal Vinik (Valeria Is Getting Married, Working Woman) tells the story of 17-year-old Naama, who spends most of her free time drinking and partying in the hopes of escaping from her parents' constant bickering, worsened by the recent disappearance of her AWOL soldier sis...
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Love Life
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From the Emmy Award-winning director of "Unorthodox"! Ya'ara has everything: She is pretty, happily married and has excellent prospects for a university career. Yet when she meets the much older Arie, a friend of her father, her perfect world falls apart. She succumbs to his fascinating, erotic a...
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Don't Forget Me
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An intimate, and yet unfathomable, love story about two young people in Tel Aviv. Tom's eating disorder and desire to disappear forever have confined her to an institution. Neil, himself mentally unstable, roams the streets with a tuba, under the mistaken impression that he will leave in a few da...
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Significant Other
2 seasons
Watch the Complete Series Now! | "The Finest Israeli Comedy!" - Haaretz | "Israel's 'Best Comedy'... Laugh-out-loud funny!" - The Forward
Significant Other, a sophisticated rom-com set in Tel Aviv, follows two lonely neighbors in their late 40’s – a single woman (Dana Modan) and a newly divorced...
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An Irrepressible Woman
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Léon Blum, the Jewish French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister, stands at the heart of a new film. Jeanne Reichenbach (Elsa Zylberstein) fell in love with Blum (Hippolyte Girardot) when she was only sixteen. Years later, when they could finally be together, the Nazis arrived in F...
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Leaps of Faiths
Movie
Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don't have to be so hard - boundaries can be crossed - divisions healed. And the kids? We follow fiv...
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Fig Tree
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Ethiopian-Israeli writer-director Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian makes a startlingly confident feature debut with this story of lives torn asunder by civil war. Set in Addis Ababa in 1989, Fig Tree follows a teenage girl's harrowing coming of age.
Mina is 16 years old. The Ethiopian Civil War has been und...
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Sam
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How do you get even with a womanizer? You make him a woman! The wheel of karma takes a hilarious spin when a magical curse transforms Sam, a misogynistic playboy, into a beautiful woman who must learn how to value females by being one herself. But when she starts feeling more romance than bromanc...
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Sister Wife
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Tsiporra Bat Israel is a member of the Black Hebrew Community of Dimona. After twenty-one years of marriage she wakes up one morning to learn that her husband, Hazriel, is marrying a second wife, fourteen years her junior, as part of the polygamy tradition of the Black Hebrews. This is a film by ...
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To Dust
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Shmuel (Geza Rohrig, Son of Saul) a Hasidic cantor, distraught by his wife’s untimely death, struggles to find religious solace while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert (Matthew Broderick, The Producers), a community college biology ...
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Wedding Doll
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WEDDING DOLL follows a young impulsive woman, Hagit, who dreams of love, marriage and freedom from the strict guidance of her mother, an overprotective divorcee. Hagit strikes up a relationship with her boss' son at the toilet paper factory where she works. While hiding the blossoming romance fro...
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The Names of Love
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Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: “Make love, not war” to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results – until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged...
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Dear God
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Lior Ashkenazi ("Foxtrot", "Late Marriage") stars in DEAR GOD, which depicts romantic Jerusalem seen through the eyes of Aaron, a guard at the Wailing Wall. One day, a beautiful mysterious woman puts a note between the holy stones and Aaron decides to fulfill her deepest wish, while learning that...
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An Israeli Love Story
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Fall in love with UNCHAINED's Aviv Alush in AN ISRAELI LOVE STORY, streaming now on ChaiFlicks!
Aviv Alush (The Women's Balcony, Valley of Tears, The Baker and the Beauty), Adi Bielski and Maya Wertheimer (The New Black) star in this powerful romance based on actual events set during the turbule...
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The Art of Waiting
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Warning: Contains Sexual Content | Acclaimed filmmaker Erez Tadmor (A Matter of Size) presents a comedy about the drama that comes with becoming parents. Liran (Roy Assaf) and Tali (Nelly Tagar, Zero Motivation) are a married couple in their thirties dreaming of having a child together. Pressure ...
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The Matchmaker
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Summer of 1968. Arik Burstein, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a mysterious matchmaker and Holocaust survivor. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, the disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, ...
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Aimée & Jaguar
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In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. One of them, Lilly Wust (NOWHERE IN AFRICA’s Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar o...
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The YidLife Crisis Guide to Love and Sex
1 season
With Valentine's Day upon us, the YidLife guys turn to a married Orthodox couple - both rabbis - to answer all their questions about dating, loving and sex. Featuring Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold and Rabbi Avi Finegold.
Parental Advisory: Suitable for Audiences 18 and Up
By Eli Batalion and J...