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Treyf (1998)
Director: Cynthia Madansky
Cast: Alisa Lebow, Cynthia Madansky, Molly Ahern, Felice Shays
Runtime55 min
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TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With personal narration, real and imagined educational films, and haunting imagery, filmmakers Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky examine the Jewish identity of their upbringings and its impact on their lives.
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Fans of unorthodox, personal documentaries will appreciate the haunting and poignant exploration of Jewish identity and lesbian lives in Cynthia Madansky's 1998 film Treyf, which blends real and imagined educational films with captivating first-person narration from directors Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky.
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Kashrut is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish religious law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the term that in Sephardi or Modern Hebrew is pronounced kashér, meaning "fit". Food that may not be consumed, however, is deemed treif, also spelled treyf. In case of objects the opposite of kosher is pasúl.
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