Hiding And Seeking: Faith And Tolerance After The Holocaust

Shot on video and starring his family, Menachem Daum's latest documentary may be closer to a home movie than the usual theatrical release, but in its own quiet way, it's among the most important films you're likely to see this year. Although he considers himself a devout Jew, Daum, who was born in a German Displaced Person's Camp after his parents were liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, has grown increasingly uncomfortable with what he perceives as a growing insularity and religious intolerance among Orthodox Jews, particularly as he sees it manifested in his sons, Tzvi Dovid and Akiva. Both now live in Jerusalem as full-time yeshiva students, studying the Tor...