“Menashe” – “You must find a new wife. She will run your household. She’ll keep your home clean. It will be a fine, pious home.” – Rabbi Yaakov (Meyer Schwartz) Menashe (Menashe Lustig) is a widower who lost his wife, Leah, about a year ago. He lives alone in his Brooklyn, NY apartment but does not urgently feel the need to remarry. Unfortunately, his rabbi (Schwartz) says that he must marry again in order to be reunited with his son, Rieven (Ruben Niborski). You see, Menashe is a Hasidic Jewish…
‘Menashe’ effectively voices a familiar struggle in an unfamiliar environment
