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“Piety and playfulness go hand in hand in this smart short film. 888-GO-KOSHER provides much food for thought about rituals, foodways, and the potential of modern technology and popular culture to enhance age-old spiritual practices.” - Jeffrey Shandler |
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“This is an enlightening look at a side of Jewish Orthodoxy not often visible to the outside world.” - Samuel Heilman |
“888-GO-KOSHER follows Rabbi Sholtiel Lebovic, the rapid responder of the kosher world, as he arrives at the scene with his energetic team. Within a matter of hours, the kitchen and everything in it is kosher. 888-GO-KOSHER, as fast-paced as the kosher brigade itself, is an affectionate portrait of one man's passion for making the world kosher, one kitchen at a time.”
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Professor of Performance Studies/
Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
“Lauren Shweder Biel's film has just the right touch and timing. It conveys effectively to outsiders the combination of enterprise and selflessness in the outreach work of Chabad Lubavitch as they win back kitchens for Orthodox Judaism.”
- Jonathan Boyarin
Kaplan Professor in Modern Jewish Thought, University of North Carolina
“888-GO-KOSHER is an extraordinarily playful and honest look into the world of the orthodox, and especially the newly orthodox. I highly recommend it for those who want to learn about this important slice of Jewish life, critical without being biased, insightful without being sentimental.”
- Miriam Isaacs
Associate Professor of Yiddish Language and Culture, University of Maryland
