- Title: Jewish Law
- Date: 3rd October 2004
- Summary: "How can anyone live like this?" Orthodox Jewish businesswoman Risa Klyne jokingly asks of her own way of life, in the second episode of the three-part series that goes inside the hidden world of Manchester's Orthodox Jewish community. It's easy to see what she's getting at. On one day each week, 160,000 Orthodox Jews in Britain do not drive cars or turn on lights. And for two weeks every month, husbands and wives can have no physical contact whatsoever before the wife has visited a ritual bath. The programme covers culturally sensitive areas like circumcision, sex and the laws of "family purity", but is also full of wit and humanity.
- Description:An insightful and at times humorous populist documentary series that looks in on the world that is the Beth Din. Character driven,following the Rabbis involved in laying down Jewish law and way of life,as well as the Manchester Jewish community trying to find a way of living in the 21st Century as well as observing thousands of years of culture. In this revealing new three-part documentary series, unprecedented access has been granted into the lives of Manchester's orthodox Jewish Community to illustrate what it is like to combine ancient Biblical rules with the stresses of everyday 21st-Century life. Tonight's opening episode follows the work of the city's Kosher inspectors as they travel across the country to make sure that Jewish food and drink follows the strict guidelines of Jewish dietary laws. Cameras also go behind the scenes at a Kosher slaughter house.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Otmoor Productions Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 2
- Transmission Date:03/10/2004
- Rights:UK and Eire
- Decade: 2000s