| Beliefs, Customs and traditions define every aspect of Jewish life. From the
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| day a Jew is born until after they die, every day marks a different stage of
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| life, each with its own personal and religious significance
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| The Eights Day
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| “Nature is what you started out with, not
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| what you want to become.”
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| Spoken by Joseph the Physician to
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| Micha, these words reflect the eternal
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| struggle between the wish to ‘fit in’ and
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| the desire to serve a higher calling.
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| Religious life for a Jewish man begins on
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| the eights day after his birth, and marks
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| his initiation into the ritual cycle of life.
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| Set in the days of the Maccabim when
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| the Greeks ruled the promised land, The
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| Eights Day follows the struggle of a
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| father from the desire to give his son a
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| ‘normal’ Greek life, to his recognition of
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| the importance of his Jewish heritage and
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| a growing urgency to proudly pass it to
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| his young son.
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| The Journey
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| Set in the Marxist Soviet of 1941 when freedom of thought and belief
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| were crimes against the state, The Journey is the story of American Civil
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| Engineer Jonathan Levinson and youngster Nikolai Krone. As Nikolai awakens
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| to being no longer a child, he learns that it is now up to him to ask the important
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| questions in life, and to find the answers he needs. Through the miraculous
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| meeting of Jonathan and Nikolai they both come to embrace the beauty and
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| importance of the Bar-Mitzva ceremony, and the privilege and responsibility it
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| bring to being a full adult Jewish man.
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| The Corridor
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| The last landmark in the Jewish Life Cycle is death and burial.
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| Sharon, a young girl in Israel as a summer volunteer, has a near death
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| experience as she survives a near-fatal car crash. Following Sharon through a
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| series of profound discoveries, The Corridor portrays the difficulty of coping
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| with extraordinary inner truths as she deals with skeptics and believers alike.
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| Sharon then gets a new neighbor in the next hospital bed who reveals to her
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| some of the deeper Jewish beliefs on the matter.
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| “Beyond the seven days of creation there is an eight day”
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| Through extraordinary human stories The Jewish Life cycle paints beautiful pictures
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| of religious discovery and the importance of these landmarks in a person’s life.
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| From the day we are born and begin a brave new life until after our death, this is the
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| Jewish cycle of life. |
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