Special Report: The Rabbi Goes West (2018)

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4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this special episode, Mike talks to Gerald Peary about The Rabbi Goes West, a new documentary that Peary and his co-director Amy Geller are completing via funding with Kickstarter. Go to www.therabbigoeswest.com to learn more.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:07.1	Chanika reminds us that when it comes to light, tomorrow's always brighter.
0:12.8	Tomorrow is a bright future.
0:15.0	Because that is what the Jewish people know from our history.
0:17.9	Is that with all the naysayers, individually or collectively have said about us,
0:21.9	we're lighting minoras in Bozeman, Montana.
0:24.9	Happy Hanukkah!
0:26.3	Happy Hanukkah!
0:28.5	That was Rabbi Haym. Brook.
0:30.4	He's a Habad Hasidic rabbi from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, who moved to Bozeman, Montana,
0:35.5	to bring his brand of Judaism to the American West.
0:38.8	And he promised to put a kosher mazza on the home of every Jew in a state 14 times larger than Israel.
0:47.3	Francis, you want to be the first one to give a kiss or mom?
0:51.2	All right.
0:52.0	Don't pull it off. Just give it a kiss. There you go.
0:54.9	It's a beautiful thing for the home. Now you certainly don't have to lock the doors.
0:58.1	Yeah. Now, even in Montana, you never have to lock the doors. But if you have a Mazzuzza and a gun, you're guaranteed to be safe and secure.
1:05.7	We're secular Jewish filmmakers based in the liberal Northeast. And we believe it's really important to make a documentary about somebody who seems our political and religious opposite.
1:16.3	What is a Hasidic rabbi doing in Montana?
1:19.6	Doing in Montana.
1:21.6	I'm not here to judge other Jews, other human beings.
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