From a friend:

We recently borrowed Ushpizin, an Israeli film with English sub-titles. It provides wonderful glimpses of Orthodox Jewish life as a poor couple, Moshe and Mali, prepare for the Feast of Succoth. They exercise the Jewish custom of receiving guests for the holy week (Ushpizin), when two escaped convicts, friends from Moshe’s past, come to their door. Their faith in God is sorely tested and ends triumphant.

Produced by Lightning Entertainment, (Champion Pictures 2004), the 90 minute DVD gave us great entertainment, with reminders of Tevye, from Fiddler on the Roof, as Moshe argues and prays his way through the Feast days.

April 2007