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A Gift for the Lent & Easter Season 2014: SON OF GOD
I know Jesus lived, and I know he came to make his spirit and God's love known upon the world. But I also believe, as powerful as the Gospels are, and they are the only knowledge we have of Christ's teachings, that something got lost. Something important that Jesus really came to impart got lost in translation, lost in history of power struggles and politics, lost in the Church.
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Nosh: FILL THE VOID
Fill the Void – Israeli drama film written and directed by Rama Burshtein. (Sony Picture Classics) Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) is the youngest daughter of a Hassidic family living in modern-day Tel Aviv. She’s excited about the young man chosen for her by The Matchmaker. In the opening scene, Shira and her mother Rivka (Irit Sheleg), with the stealth of deer hunters, track down Shira’s intended at the market, to get a look at him. Both mother and daughter approve. But so soon after, events turn tragic when Shira’s older sister dies in childbirth. This unexpected loss creates big consequences for Shira’s marriage plans, as it’s suggested she marry her…