... My documentary is focused on those whose faith held strong, the question for them was never, "Where was God," but rather, "Where was Man?" And for these Jewish emigrés there was never any quavering in their direction, they were the lamp bearers of Judaism. Opening learning centers and communities in all the major cities, they followed the only way they knew, the way their fathers and their fathers' fathers had lived, by following the laws prescribed by the Torah.

— Bernard Mendoza

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