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Stacey spends the weekend staying in the home of Rabbi Wollenberg, his wife Blima and their nine children.
In an ever more secular age, ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews swim against the tide. Stacey talks to the Wollenbergs about what it’s like living under so strictly regimented a religious code, what their faith gives to their family – and being so visibly Jewish as antisemitism dominates the headlines.
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
