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Similarly, for Mendy Greenberg in Anchorage, Alaska, the bar mitzvah is a meaningful event. Mendy??s parents are members of the Lubavitcher Hasidic sect of Judaism, and they believe that part of their mission in life is to reach out to less observant Jews, a task that begins, for Mendy, on the day he becomes a bar mitzvah...
...Mendy??s rabbi, contrary to his intentions, points Mendy in the direction of a brothel that changes his life. The rabbi quotes an obscure Talmudic passage that authorizes restless young Hasidim to “get it out of their systems.” But, true to cliché, Mendy falls in love with Sasha (Tchelet Semel), the beautiful prostitute he meets at the Love Boat, his bordello of choice, and never comes back...
Mike uses Mendy??s Orthodox looks to smuggle weed past security check points—Hasidim attract little suspicion. Mendy also befriends “The Exterminator,” an M16-wielding Jewish settler, and Razi, an Arab who negotiates illicit deals between Jewish settlers and Palestinian landowners in the West Bank...
...nothing but comic relief, caricatures who mean no harm. But slowly he begins to see that they take their extremist ideologies seriously. Amidst these loony people, Mendy finally does feel closer to God—though he now wears cool T-shirts and has cut off his side curls, Mendy??s prayers have acquired real meaning, and he utters them fervently when he thinks no one is looking...
...They make Mendy doubt Sasha’s love for him, and, in his disillusionment, he tries to return to his family and the safe Hasidic world he left behind. In this world of ideologies gone wild, however, going home is not an option. Mendy??s adventures in the real world end with a bomb he unwittingly helped smuggle across a checkpoint...