For most viewers, including myself, "Menashe" might as well be a foreign film. But this gentle dramedy — which was shot in the heart of Brooklyn from the mind of an American writer-director — is as ...

The mix of fiction and documentary that takes us inside a Hasidic community in Brooklyn in “Menashe” turns out to be something of a double-edged sword. Director Joshua Z. Weinstein (a documentarian ...

Menashe is the kind of person who might be called in Yiddish a schlemiel or schlimazel. Try as he may, he can't get his act together at work, in the kitchen and sometimes, as a father. Menashe ...