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'To Kill Passion Is to Kill Life': Pioneer ultra-Orthodox Filmmaker Explores Lust in a World Ruled by Modesty

Rama Burshtein-Shai, whose 2022 series 'Fire Dance' is now streaming in North America, tells Haaretz how when you suppress an unrequited love, you suppress life – in the ultra-Orthodox community too

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Adrian Hennigan
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Adrian Hennigan
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It would be unfair to call Rama Burshtein-Shai the world's best-known ultra-Orthodox filmmaker. Not that she isn't, it's just that the field is so small as to suck all meaning out of the phrase.

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