#Shtisel season 3

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Come on Netflix

Can I just say that I need season three of ‘Shtisel’ to come out NOW? 

#I miss my dysfunctional Orthodox family #Shtisel season 3 #Michael Aloni #Shira Haas #Doval'e Glickman #Akiva is my sweet artist bae

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Season 3 of ‘Shtisel’ arrives on Netflix in late March

Season 3 of ‘Shtisel’ arrives on Netflix in late March

The long-awaited new season includes nine episodes, picks up four years after season 2. Shtisel fans, rejoice: The long-awaited third season of the beloved series arrives on Netflix on March 25 around the world. In Israel the season aired on the Yes satellite TV service between December and February. It features nine episodes and picks up four years after the events of the second season. The…

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#Netflix #Season 3 #Shtisel

[sasukagay]

Just watched Shtisel season 3 ep 1 and. Wow. Just wow. I'm fucking heartbroken

#why'd they have to do my boy Akiva dirty like that #it's not fucking fair #akiva Shtisel #shtisel #tv shows

[treksickfic]

Ask Meme

Answer the questions and tag 9 people NOPE you want to know better or catch up with.

Thanks for the tag @mongooseblues, prepare for some disappointing answers, though!

Three ships (only three?):

Kirk/Spock - Star Trek TOS

Uhura/Spock - Star Trek AOS (I acknowledge this is not a popular ship, but the heart loves what the heart loves)

David/Patrick - Schitt’s Creek (I am forever soft for these soft, soft boys)

Last song:

Say You Like Me, We the Kings (because it is a happy bouncy song and god knows I need those sweet brain chemicals r/n)

Last movie:

Bermuda Tentacles (Saturday night tradition in our house is pizza and the worst movie we can find streaming. Linda Hamilton, what were you thinking)

Currently watching:

Schitt’s Creek, like my sixth or seventh rewatch because again, hello happy brain chemicals;  Season 3 of Shtisel,; trying out The Kominsky Method (ehhhhhh *hand waggle* idk about this one yet)

Tagging:

Anyone reading this who wants to answer? And tag me back so I can read your answers because I am a nosy person.

#personal #ask meme #this is creative as I get right now #I am fried

[wenevergotusedtoegypt]

Why do you think Shtisel gets so many things right about that specific community while otherwise getting some basic things wrong? I.e. you spoke about yichud and leaving the door open is not sufficient usually, and in one scene (later in season 3 but not a spoiler I promise) one character sits to eat, another says nah I already ate but will sit with you, and then proceeds to snack on bread??? Without washing! And it's just like, how do they mess up those obvious details??

The major thing I’ve written about Shtisel getting right is its overall approach of telling a story about Orthodox Jews who are just people with problems and who happen to be Orthodox, rather than a story about people whose problem is that they are Orthodox (which is typically the angle of media produced by people who are not Orthodox Jews about Orthodox Jews). I think it’s actually pretty easy to nail that overarching humanizing approach and still mess up on the nitty gritty details! Speaking as someone who has had to learn those nitty gritty details from scratch in her life, there are a ton to keep track of. I also don’t know enough about the production to be able to make a full call - it’s possible with the yichud stuff, for example, that they knew it was technically incorrect but found it too hard to tell the story they wanted to tell otherwise, and so sacrificed a small amount of authenticity for story. Or it’s possible they mistakenly thought it was fine. I don’t know. I haven’t seen the scene you mentioned yet but something like that could be, maybe it wasn’t actually in the script and the actor, who doesn’t have in engrained in their brain to make a bracha from their real life, did it in the moment without thinking, and they didn’t feel it was worth the effort to fix. (No idea without seeing the scene if that’s plausible).

But yeah I think it makes total sense try could get the larger approach right and still miss or ignore these small details. Given the other media (mis)portraying Orthodox Jews that’s on offer, I’ll take it.

[bcwallin]

Autonomies (2018)

Shtisel is back. The third season of the popular TV series about Haredi Jews is coming to Netflix on March 25, after airing on Israeli television earlier this year. But if you just can’t wait for more nuanced, thoughtful depictions of Orthodox Judaism on screen and need your next fix, you should hear about the limited series Autonomies, created by the team that brought you Shtisel, Yehonatan Indursky and Ori Elon. Even if you’ve never seen Shtisel, but you care about interesting stories that center the Jewish experience, you should probably hear about Autonomies, too.

In the dystopian world of Autonomies, a fictional Israel is still reckoning with the aftermath of a civil war, as the country is split between the Hilonim (secular Jews) in Tel Aviv and a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) autonomy under strict religious law in Jerusalem (a Palestinian autonomy is named, though never a focus). But the cracks are showing. Members of the Hevra Kadisha (Jews who handle the responsibilities of the deceased) use coffins to smuggle porn, pork, and other non-kosher contraband into the Haredi autonomy. Rumors abound on the possibility of unification with the rest of Israel. And one girl — born from one world, raised in the other — becomes the symbol of the country’s precariousness when the identity of her birth mother is revealed.

At the 2019 New York Jewish Film Festival, Indursky said that he was inspired by his own upbringing when co-creating this show. The writer and director grew up Haredi and studied in the Yeshiva Ponevezh in Bnei Brak before leaving that world. You can feel the lived-in quality of his writing in the mumbled brachas (blessings) over food, the way a jazz song can become a niggun (traditional melody), and the natural way details of Jewish tradition are woven into the fabric of the story. You can also feel his sense of perspective, as he navigates the story from the dual perspectives of insider and one beyond.

Haredi life is nuanced, presented with flaws and favor alike. The rebbe of the autonomy (Shuli Rand) is an inspirational figure to many, but in his amber-hued study, he reigns like Don Corleone over his council. There is beauty in ritual, but trouble brews as characters push back against the stringencies enforced by the Shomrim (Haredi police). In the heightened reality of a dystopia, Autonomies raises the stakes of tensions and temptations without declaring an explicit bad guy. The clearest stance the show takes is an opposition to walls that keep some people in and others out.

A great piece of genre storytelling will often reveal truths about the ordinary world. Autonomies is a bit of Job, a bit of Jonah — the main character, Yonah Broide (Assi Cohen), retells the latter’s story when he’s inside his own belly of the beast — and it’s also a whole lot of the sentiment of Jewish suffering expressed over and over in Tisha B’Av kinnot (elegies): “אוֹי מֶה הָיָה לָנו” (oy, what has happened to us). Following in the tradition of Fiddler on the Roof and A Serious Man, Autonomies presents Broide wondering: Why does Hashem have to do this to me?

Of course, Broide’s not the only one suffering. The women of Autonomies, particularly Elka (Tali Sharon) and Batia (Dana Ivgy), reckon with the ways they are seen and ignored, as they struggle over the fate of a daughter who was switched at birth. Lawyers, husbands, police, and a rebbe push them to give up, to fight, or to endure, as they hope to hold onto a daughter thought dead by one and raised by the other. Even the girl, Goni (Nir Di-Nur), becomes seen more as a symbol of political strife than as an individual.

It’s been three years since Autonomies’ release in Israel, and it still hasn’t made much of a cultural splash in the U.S., where the show is only available on the streaming service Topic (which does offer a seven-day free trial, perfect for bingeing a three-and-a-half-hour Israeli limited series), and at the occasional film festival. I have not stopped thinking about Autonomies (no, really) since I first saw the show in 2019. Like Shtisel, it grounds its story in a reality of customs, restrictions, expectations, and self-doubt.

Watch it before you watch season 3 of Shtisel. Watch it after. Watch it and discuss it enough for the distributor, Keshet International, to make the show more widely available (is it too much to ask for an Autonomies Blu-Ray release?). Appreciate how great it is that we can have a Jewish work that is also a piece of powerful genre storytelling about division, personal struggle, and identity. And then, when you hear somebody tell you how excited they are to watch the new season of Shtisel, let them know: They need to hear about Autonomies, too.

Originally published on Alma

#bcwallin #jewish tv #autonomies #shtisel #Yehonatan indursky

[spurgie-cousin]

I have watched Orthodox and am currently on season 3 of Shtisel. Have u watched it?

No I haven’t sorry!

[jomiddlemarch]

Thanks for the tag, @fericita-s

3 ships: Mary Phinney & Jed Foster, Jo March & Friedrich Bhaer, Elizabeth Bennett & Fitzwilliam Darcy

last song: “Autumn Leaves” Erroll Garner

last movie: Greyhound on Apple + TV (meh)

currently reading: Refuge by Dina Nayeri

currently watching: Community, Season 6, with the whole family; Shtisel, Season 2, with my husband

currently craving: a quiet chunk of time to write, a break in the heat wave, the withdrawal of Trump’s Stasi from our cities, steamed lobster with a properly baked potato, some good news about my novel, a classic daiquiri, clear weather at the beach

tagging @kivrin @sassy-doctor-foster @tessa-quayle @britishdetectives @ultrahotpink @lucyemers @the-spaztic-fantastic

#about me #tag games #tv rec #shtisel #it's phenomenal

[romoladebardi]

Shtisel season 3 babyyyy

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Reflections on Orthodox Judaism/Hasidic Communities

Like many people during COVID, I am watching a lot of Netflix. I’ve finished the entire Vampire Diaries universe (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies), I’ve also binged on Hannibal (of which I am currently writing a very in-depth fanfic), and I have watched countless fantastic films. I’ve watched Ip Man 1 and 2 and will be watching 3 and 4 soon. I have watched The Lobster, Moonlight, Resident Evil, Adams Family, The Danish Girl, and The Hater. I have watched shows and movies that have made me cry, made me laugh, made me do some research, and made me think about the story and characters long after the end credits. But early into my quarantine period, back before April, I came across a trailer for the show Unorthodox and it began a journey that I’d like to share. 

Unorthodox is an American/German limited series on Netflix that follows the story of a young woman, Esther (Shira Haas), who begins a marriage in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn. She was a member of the Satmar sect that began with the Hasidic community in Hungary but migrated to New York after WWII. The Satmar sect is characterized as being more strict than the European Hasidic sects with a complete rejection of modern culture, fierce anti-Zionism, and strict adherence to male-only education. The story is based on the true life events of Deborah Feldman’s life depicted in her memoir. When I first saw the trailer, I was uncertain. I actually didn’t immediately watch it but after seeing the preview a few times, I thought to just take a risk and I am certainly glad I did. The visual style of the show was beautiful. There was an authenticity to the show that I was entranced by. I felt like I was truly in a Hasidic family and understanding Hasidic roots and traditions. I love it when good television transports me into a new world and allows me to really see all sides. 

Shira Haas was a breakthrough performer. She had a gentle brokenness that felt pure and raw. As a young woman, Esther wanted to be a part of her community but also felt a deep split emerging between her love for her culture and the desire for something that would break her from those roots. She made an extremely difficult decision by leaving her Hasidic family in Brooklyn for a life of uncertainty in Berlin. It was definitely a tale of an idealistic young woman following her heart, a story that we can all get behind. What was refreshing though, was depicting the reality of the loss of her community. It was never going to be a clean break and I’m glad the show told the difficult story as well as the happy one. 

She wanted to experience individual expression, something that was taboo in her culture where standing out made you troublesome and difficult. When her family told her to stop chasing after her mother that abandoned her for the secular world, she went anyway. When her family told her that her life goal should be to bear children and be a good wife for her community, she decided to chase her dreams of studying music. When she felt trapped in a loveless marriage, she wanted to find a passionate love. Even though she found moments of clarity and happiness, she still felt lost, trapped in between two worlds. The difficult decision of leaving home oftentimes made her feel confused and wanting to go back to the comforts of the only support system she thought she knew. Even though her husband came searching for her, she knew that she couldn’t trust that support system again. She had to create a new one.

As the story continued, not only about Esther but the dynamic characters that surrounded her, I became enveloped in the visceral empathy of their situation. I know that I am not a part of the community, but I could feel the turmoil as they were feeling turmoil. I could feel the frustrations from many sides as though I was feeling them. For example, Esther’s husband Yakov (played by Amit Rahav), was difficult to relate to at the beginning of the show. I know too many men in my personal life that have no interest in being truly sympathetic to women’s needs or follow along with the pressures of society without having enough courage to think for themselves. For the first few episodes, that was Yakov, but as the story continued, I began to see where he was coming from and felt like he was truly a good man. It’s not often that I see a beta male antagonist become a truly developed, sensitive man. It makes me feel hopeful that there may be more intellectual, loving, good men in the Hasidic community. These relationships, including every character’s relationship with God, were complex and ugly at times but it didn’t leave me with a bad taste in my mouth for the community. In fact, it left me curious. I wanted more. 

Netflix came out with a behind the scenes short documentary about the show and there was so much that went into the details of the show that really embodied the community as a whole. The writers and producers wanted to show as much as they could about the Hasidic community. They wanted to maintain respect for the community while also commentating on how the secular world sees it from the outside and how someone like Esther might feel trapped in between. There was still a whole universe I didn’t yet understand.

Since I, unfortunately, don’t have Hasidic friends to talk to about my new obsession for the community, I wanted to watch whatever Netflix had to offer. I came across the documentary, One of Us, which follows three ex-Hasidic Jews who left the community for a variety of reasons. Ari was a young man of about 19 or so who was sexually assaulted during his adolescent years and, after not feeling supported by his community, turned to alcohol and drugs. Etty, after years of suffering domestic violence in her marriage, decided to leave the community which left her in a custody battle of her five children, of which she subsequently lost. The third person, Luzer, decided to leave the community after he felt abandoned when he asked questions about God’s existence. Watching their stories also made me realize another piece to the puzzle of the Hasidic community. When I watched Unorthodox, I felt that it made most sense that women would be the ones to leave the community because they were significantly more oppressed than the men, as in most religious societies. However, after watching One of Us, I realized that men leave too. Men feel abandoned and invisible in the community just as women do. 

There was a point in the documentary where Luzer asked one of his Hasidic friends why the community is this way and his friend responded to say that, “it’s all about the survival of the Jewish community.” Without strict control, the community would fall privy to the secular world and lose its strength over time. It’s clear that the community leaders of the Hasidic community don’t want to lose people to the secular world. It is also clear that a lot of ex-Hasidic individuals miss and love their community, even with its problems and constrictions. I think that if the community wants to prevent more people from leaving, they may have to compromise by providing more support for people. There are times in every pious person’s life where there are doubts about God. For a lot of people, those doubts can be strong. 

For most Jews, there is profound respect for the rabbi and if more rabbis can encourage a more open dialogue about the doubts about God and the community, then perhaps people won't feel so isolated. For men and women suffering from sexual health or marital issues like abuse, there should be a trusted system in place to protect these individuals. It’s not the issues themselves that make people want to leave, it’s the feeling of abandonment of these issues by the entire community that make people feel isolated and wanting out. The specific issues discussed in the documentary may be why I have more specific ideas on how to approach a more progressive Hasidic community. This is what I gather from what I see in both Unorthodox, One of Us, and my own research. 

The end of One of Us left me to be more critical, rather than the appreciative aftertaste I got after watching Unorthodox. I appreciate that every religious community has its own faults, and harshly criticizing it hardly makes sense coming from a non-Jew. So, I return to simple appreciation, observation, and curiosity rather than harsh criticism.

If any individual reading this has any opposition, comment or question about my thought process on this topic, I highly encourage discourse. I love to be re-educated. 

However, my interest in the Hasidic community still has not stopped. It’s not because I am religious, but because I am deeply fascinated by the complicated world of Judaism and of strict religious communities. I also wanted to continue watching some of the more beautiful and interesting traditions that I grew fond to appreciate in Unorthodox. 

Which has led me to a bit of a different kind of show, Shtisel. Shtisel is an Israeli drama television show completely filmed in Yiddish. It’s a fairly recent show, with the first season released in 2013 and it’s newest season greenlit for production at the end of 2020. I’ve just started it but I am hooked. The actress, Shira Haas, who plays Esther in Unorthodox plays one of the supporting character’s daughters in this show.The show follows Akiva Shtisel, the protagonist, a young man who falls for an older, twice widowed woman. Though, his family disapproves, he can’t seem to get her off his mind. There’s lots of additional side stories that make the show interesting and I’m excited that a third season is coming. I’ve just started the show, but right now I am enjoying the story because it’s different than what I’ve seen before. I wanted to see more about the lives of people actually still in the community, rather than those who want to leave or have left. Shtisel is refreshingly different from Unorthodox, in the way that the Hasidic Jews in Shitsel are Israeli, which supposedly implies a more lax community. In some ways, I’ve noticed the changes. I noticed that there are women who work in the Torah schools and men who speak more freely about marrying for love rather than for community pressures, which seems to be different from the Satmar sect. 

I have a lot more I want to see and learn. I have a billion questions to ask about this world and I want to get to know more. I hope that more people become interested, just as I have. I want more people to find a new respect for the Hasidic community, the Jewish faith and of religious groups in general. I think the more we try to learn about each other, the closer we become as people. Sometimes, it isn’t as hard as we make it out to be. All it takes is a little Netflix surfing. 

Shalom.

#judaism #religion #philosophy #culture #unorthodox #shtisel #hasidic #netflix #opinion #oneofus #tv #writing

[mflomenhoft1]

#shtisel #Shtisel3 Zohar Strauss (@zoharstrauss) is back on the set of Shtisel Season 3 as Lippe and he has a message for us. I only picked out "friends", "set of Shtisel 3" and "bye". Still, it is fun to know that filming progresses! From @yestv Instagram stories. @yesstudios @perrykafri_agency https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUHimSDEMo/?igshid=7u2kqkgax7d9

#shtisel #shtisel3

[kansassire]

Mis Favoritas de Agosto’19:

1 Gisaengchung aka Parasite, 2019, Bong Joon-ho 2 Bao xue jiang zhi aka The Looming Storm, 2017,  Dong Yue 3 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2019, Quentin Tarantino 4 Dil Se.. aka From The Heart, 1998,  Mani Ratnam 5 Bao lie wu sheng aka Wrath of Silence, 2017, Xin Yukun 6 Polizeiruf 110: Tatorte (2018), Christian Petzold 7 Mr. Long, 2017, Sabu 8 Un couteau dans le cœur aka Knife+Heart, 2018, Yann Gonzalez and Shtisel, 2013, Season 1 (Tv-Series) Frontera Verde aka Green Frontier, Season 1, Ciro Guerra, Laura Mora, Jacques Toulemonde (Tv-Series)   Mindhunter, Season 2,  (Tv-Series)

Let us go in,The Fog is rising

#my top month list #poll

[gleekto]

I don’t know if you mentioned this before, but do you watch Queer Eye? Because ♥️😭♥️😭♥️

I don’t! I would love to but I am unfortunately a failure at keeping up with all the TV things I’d like to watch - To give you an idea - Still need to watch the end of The Good Place season 3 and this season of B99 but both those are paused while I watch Schitt’s Creek (which I love so much NO WORDS - DO RECOMMEND!!)…

BUT even once I finish Schitt’s, I must watch the highly revered Netflix show about ultra Orthodox Jewish world “Shtisel” which I will no doubt love…And then I would also theoretically like to watch Derry Girls and Sex Education but those are lower priority…

Real life is too busy!

Anyways, you see my problem. But I’m sure I would love Queer Eye from what I hear.

#gleekto asks

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2021.03.25

Thursday, March 25th:

(exclusive & streaming): Baketopia (HMax, competition series premiere, all 12 eps), DOTA: Dragon's Blood (netflix, anime series premiere, first 8 eps), Fear the Walking Dead (AMC+, season 6A "Episode Diaries", all 7 eps), "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" (Peacock, docu-series, all 6 eps), The Restaurant (SundanceNow, season 4 "1951" available, all 4 eps), Shtisel (netflix, season 3 available, all 9 eps)

(streaming weekly): Good Eats (DSC+, season 16 finale), Playing for Keeps (SundanceNow), Cold Courage (AMC+), The Walking Dead / Talking Dead (AMC+), "Hello, Me!" (netflix), Sisyphus (netflix), Ruthless (BET+), Millennials (AllBlk), My Mane Problem (AllBlk), The Real World (Para+), Generation / "Genera+ion" (HMax, next 2 eps)

(streaming movies): "The Runaway Bunny" (HMax, animated family special), "Caught by a Wave" (netflix, Italian teen romance, ~100mins), "Secret Magic Control Agency" (netflix, animated fantasy, ~105mins), "Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad" (DSC+, documentary, ~108mins), "Violation" (Shudder, ~108mins)

(also new): "Harry & Meghan's American Dream" (theCW, a "People Presents" special), "For Real: The Story of Reality TV" (E!, docu-series premiere), "Salt-N-Pepa" (LMN, a Lifetime original bio-pic reair, 3.5 hours)

(hour 1): Station 19 (ABC), Superstore (NBC, series finale, 60mins), Hell's Kitchen (FOX), BattleBots Bounty Hunters (DSC, 2hrs+)

(hour 2): Grey's Anatomy (ABC), Law & Order: SVU (NBC, repeat), Call Me Kat (FOX, season 1 finale) /   / Last Man Standing (FOX), Legacies (theCW), BattleBots Bounty Hunters (DSC, contd+)

(hour 3): A Million Little Things (ABC), Cake (FXX, ~35mins), Impractical Jokers (truTV) /   / Fast Foodies (truTV)

[repeats, resuming next week: Young Sheldon (CBS), B Positive (CBS), Mom (CBS), Clarice (CBS) ] [preempted, returning in two weeks: Walker (theCW) ]

#Shtisel #Baketopia #DOTADragonsBlood #FearTheWalkingDead #JohnWayneGacy #television

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