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: ', The Courtyard) is a 2003

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on the lives of

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Jews in Israel. It centers on a fictionalized Tel Aviv enclave of a Hasidic community that attempts to maintain its customs alongside a secular world, under the leadership of their Rebbe. The show was popular even among the religious Jewish community in Israel. The actor

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played the role of the Hasidic Rebbe.

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Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews {{Israel-film-stub

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