A young Hasidic yeshiva student undergoes a dramatic personality change after a near-death experience in Avishai Sivan's Israeli drama. By Frank Scheck A young Hasidic yeshiva student undergoes a ...

Avishai Sivan's psychological horror film offers an intimate look at one man's crisis of faith. At first, Avishai Sivan’s “Tikkun” is a quiet, sensitive portrait of a young Israeli rabbinical student ...

The Kabbalistic idea of “tikkun” as a form of repairing, fixing and healing is a familiar concept in Judaism, including among the ultra-Orthodox. Far less familiar is framing the world of the ...

The curtain rose Thursday night on the 32nd Jerusalem Film Festival, one of the most prestigious stages for Israeli filmmaking and a fest whose content and character always serves as a barometer of ...

During my conversation with author/director Avishai Sivan of the torturously wrenching stark film Tikkun, he said that though his first feature film was also about the Haredi Hassidic community, ...

In Kabbalah, the word tikkun — roughly translated as “rectification” or “repair” — describes a process in which human beings can lift the world up through the performance of the Torah’s commandments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austere but fascinating, Avishai Sivan’s sophomore feature, “Tikkun,” spins a willfully enigmatic tale of a Jerusalem yeshiva ...

A Jerusalem yeshiva student drifts from his ultra-Orthdox community after a near-death experience in this austere but fascinating drama. Something is clearly wrong with distracted, bespectacled young ...