Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, established the first tertiary college for Haredi women. Rachel Chalkowski, nurse and midwife, creates a charitable foundation to help Haredi women with the burden of raising large families in poverty while their husbands dedicate themselves to the study of Torah. Together they take a long, hard look at their society from a feminine perspective, working towards creating positive change within their community as they try to fight poverty in Israel's Haredi slums.
Year: 2009
Languages: Hebrew & Yiddish, English & Hebrew subtitles
Director: Ron Ofer
Producer: Itay Ken-Tor - Belfilms
Up Next in Limited Series
-
HAREDIM - Finale - Episode 3 - Religi...
At his advertising agency in Bnei-Brak, Yigal Revach is encircled by Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox Jewish) men and women in the midst of a brainstorming session. In his youth, Yigal aspired to become a religious sage. Today he is trying to initiate an Internet service that if approved by the Rabbis, wil...
