Shekinah Rising

Shekinah Rising (also listed as Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women) is a Canadian documentary produced in 2013 which explores the women of the Montreal Hasidic community, centred in Outremont, Quebec and at a Chabad run seminary for young women.[2][3] The documentary covers the perspectives of the female students of a Chabad school in Montreal as well as religious views on women in that community. The film's director is Abbey Neidik and produced by DLI Productions.[4][1][5]

Shekinah Rising
Film poster
Directed byAbbey Neidik
Release date
  • October 24, 2013 (2013-10-24)[1]
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The filming of the documentary took four years to complete.[6] The film is described as an attempt to demonstrate how Hasidic women are not treated as "second-class citizens" in their community, and features Hasidic women pointing to customs that they would not agree to adhere to.[7] One scene captures the persistence of anti-Semitism in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts and the Hasidic effort to respond with outreach efforts.[6] One of the main characters in the film is Rebbetzin Chanie Carlebach, mother of twelve children and director of the Chabad seminary in Ste-Agathe.[8]:43

See also

References
  1. "New film Shekinah provides unprecedented access to the world of young Hasidic women". TheSuburban.com. October 11, 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  2. https://www.cbc.ca/documentarychannel/m_docs/shekinah-rising
  3. Cole, Susan G. (May 15, 2014). "Shekinah: The Intimate Life Of Hasidic Women". NOW Magazine.
  4. "Secrets and lives of Hasidic women" – via The Globe and Mail.
  5. Arnold, Janice (October 20, 2013). "Film presents chassidic women's attitudes to intimacy". The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
  6. Ghert-Z, Renee. "New documentary opens a hermetically closed world". www.timesofisrael.com.
  7. "Shekinah: The Intimate Life of Hasidic Women Review". May 16, 2014.
  8. Skinazi, K. (2018). Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Rutgers University Press.
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