
16 Sep 1998

Train of Life
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
It's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.
After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Eli Eisenstein will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

Eli Eisenstein

Stephanie
Leah Eisenstein
Duvid Leib Eisenstein

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