New Jewish Film: A 'Cut' Above the Rest

JERUSALEM POST
By Rebecca Wald



Filmmaker Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon’s latest documentary takes a powerful look at the practice of infant circumcision from a uniquely Jewish perspective. For the past two months, Jewish filmmaker Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon has been driving across the United States in a rented car, sleeping in strangers’ houses, and screening his tradition-challenging documentary Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision to audiences as small as three, and as large as 140.  In the film, Ungar-Sargon, who is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, queries rabbis, mohels, Chicago professors and even his own brother and father, about a practice that is perceived by many as central to Judaism. [link]