Lustig didn't ask his rabbi for approval when he acted in "Menashe," a film based on his life, but he figured out his own rationale. Actors discovered at the Sundance Film Festival often hail from ...

They’ve given us the sweetest taboo: “Menashe” is a fascinating, poignant and rare glimpse into the world of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, starring members of the Hasidic community. Since much of ...

Menashe, a new dramatic film by filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein and out with A24, was shot entirely in Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhood of Borough Park; the language spoken is Yiddish; and much of the ...

"Menashe" — thought to be the first Yiddish movie in more than 70 years — is based on the true story of a Hasidic single father in Borough Park. BOSTON (JTA) — With more than a decade’s worth of ...

Menashe Lustig (left) and Ruben Niborski star in “Menashe.” Photo by Federica Valabrega, courtesy of A24 Filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein has shot documentaries throughout Asia and Africa, but in 2014 he ...

In “Menashe,” out Friday, a hapless widower risks losing custody of his young son, simply because, his rabbi explains, there’s no real home without a woman. That’s both the plot of Joshua Z. Weinstein ...

BOTTOM LINE A moving drama about fatherly love and difficult choices within a little-known community. (In Yiddish, with English subtitles) Midway through “Menashe,” Joshua Z. Weinstein’s drama about ...

Menashe Lustig sits at a diner table in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, a yarmulke atop his head, tzitzit around his waist, an egg sandwich on his plate. Lustig, like the majority of the people ...