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Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 07\/17\/25\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Friday the rabbi sought justice.<\/strong> On the surface, a sort of cross between The Rabbi Small Mysteries<\/strong><\/em><\/a> book series and Charles Bronson<\/strong>‘s iconic Death Wish<\/em><\/strong><\/a> films, Guns & Moses<\/em> (in theaters this Friday)<\/strong><\/a> arrives at a time when Jewish people are literally under by assault by a seemingly unrelenting wave of vicious anti-Semitism. It, therefore, won’t be surprising if many of them will be among those in the audience cheering on justice-seeking Rabbi Mo Zaltzman (Royal Pains<\/em>‘ Mark Fauerstein<\/strong>). Written and directed by Sal Litvak<\/strong><\/a>, a Chilean-born Jewish author and filmmaker who is now an American, views the adventures of Rabbi Mo as more than just kosher popcorn.<\/p>\n

JWK: So, tell me about Guns and Moses.\u00a0<\/em>The logline reads “A small town rabbi becomes an unlikely gunfighter after his community is violently attacked. How did you come up with the idea for this story?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sal Litvak:<\/strong> So, my wife (Nina Litvak<\/strong>) and I wrote it together. We knew that we wanted to make a thriller that would have a Jewish connection because we already have a large online community around our platform, Accidental Talmudist<\/strong><\/a>. As we were looking for the subject, there was the shooting and killing in a synagogue in Poway, California in 2019<\/a>. I went down the next day for the funeral of Lori Gilbert-Kaye<\/strong>. Then I watched the rabbi become a public figure, get invited by President Trump<\/strong> to the White House and call on the public to do some kind of good in the name of this woman that was murdered<\/a>, so something good could come out of that tragedy. I was very moved by that. That definitely was part of the genesis of the project.<\/p>\n

JWK: The story itself is fictional, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>The story is fictional. It was inspired by that but we wanted to make a proper action thriller with a very entertaining mystery structure. It was definitely influenced by Chinatown<\/em><\/strong> and Hitchcock’s North by Northwest<\/em><\/strong>. So, it’s a fictional story but those events were definitely part of the inspiration.<\/p>\n

JWK: Now, the title almost sounds like a comedy but it’s really not. Especially given recent events, it seems more timely than ever.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>Yeah. It’s funny. We wondered (about) the title – because it has a little bit of that comedic tone – but it’s just so accurate. It really is about this rabbi who never saw himself as a gun guy – but, when his community is under threat, he steps up, learns and does what he has to do. The training that he goes through is real-world firearms training. So often in a movie, when a character has to learn how to shoot, he puts a few tin cans on a fence, there’s a 15-second montage and then he can shoot. That is completely not real. It’s very difficult to shoot safely and accurately when you’re under pressure. If you’re with a gun in an emergency situation, the pressure is enormous. So, people in the firearms community really appreciate that the training in the movie is authentic.<\/p>\n

I’m in an organization called Magen Am<\/strong><\/a> which means “Shield of the Nation” in Hebrew. We’re volunteers who get very heavily trained and licensed to carry in our houses of worship. It’s not easy. The training that Rabbi Mo goes through (in the movie) mirrors my own.<\/p>\n

JWK: Do you feel that, in the current environment, it’s particularly important for Jewish institutions and individuals to learn how to arm and defend themselves?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL:<\/strong> It’s never been so important. Look what just happened (recently). I mean the shootings in Washington, D.C.<\/a>, the Molotov cocktail attack in Boulder, Colorado<\/a>, the rabbi who was assaulted and pulled a gun to defend himself in Baltimore<\/a>. It seems like the pace of these attacks is only accelerating. You know, my mother and grandmother were survivors of the Holocaust from Hungary. Growing up in America, I would say it could happen here. It could happen anywhere.<\/p>\n

JWK: By the way, as I understand it, you were born in Chile but now you’re an American.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>Correct. I was born in Chile. I came to the United States when I was five-years-old and grew up in the New York area.<\/p>\n

JWK: And, of course, you’re Jewish.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>And I’m Jewish. I just grew up kinda not religious, a typical New York liberal Jew. I thought the New York Times<\/strong> told the truth.<\/p>\n

I woke up as an adult really as a result of being in Israel when there was a terrorist attack. I saw what really happens. I mean I wasn’t a witness but I heard about it from people who were. Then I saw how the mainstream media covered it. Two terrorists murdered four Orthodox rabbis (three of whom were dual Israeli-US nationals) during morning prayers in Jerusalem with hatchets. They were neutralized, thank God<\/strong>, by some off-duty policemen. Pretty soon, a couple of hours later BBC<\/strong> followed by CNN<\/strong> (had chyrons) saying Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians. It was like “Are you kidding?! THAT<\/em> is how you characterize that event?!” I (suddenly) realized how much the mainstream media is just invested in an anti-Semitic Jew-hating narrative. It’s that same narrative which leads to young people on college campuses saying “Globalize the Intifada” and believing the lie about what’s going on in Israel, this tiny country struggling to defend itself. Believing those lies, they think that it’s a moral imperative to murder Jews wherever we are. I mean the danger level has shot up astronomically.<\/p>\n

JWK: Why do you feel that the narrative of Jews as villains has seemingly been embraced by much of the media? How did that happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>They did it on purpose. They’ve been doing it for thirty years. Anyone who just looks at a map can see that Israel is a tiny country surrounded by a vast, vast area of many nations (with) hundreds of millions of Arab Muslims. There’s all the space in the world for the Palestinians to live peacefully among their brethren. They only have to move like ten miles. There’s plenty of space and time for peace. They don’t want it. They have never wanted it. Somehow it’s offensive to them that there is a Jewish state, although their own land and peace has been offered to them a thousand times. I mean, if you look at the original two-state solution that was created by England, it was supposed to be 50\/50 Jews and Arabs. The Arabs objected and so it became 80\/20. That original two-state solution was Jordan and Israel. (So they said) “Okay, thanks very much for Jordan – but now we want Israel also.” It’s just been a lie from the beginning.<\/p>\n

Look at what happened on October 7th, 2023, the worst attack against the Jews since the Holocaust. Before Israel had even begun to respond, already they were saying, you know, that this is “racist” and “the evil Jews are finally gonna get theirs.” There were demonstrations happening already on October 7th and definitely on October 8th. You could see that it was a coordinated effort and it always has been. Misinformation has been funded by places like Qatar in American universities. Every time there’s a demonstration they all have the same tents, the same language and the same bullhorn. I mean the whole thing is being created by outsiders. If you look at any college demonstrations, outside agitators come in an whip up the kids with lies. You know, these kids are very smart. They go to Ivy League schools but they fall very easily for these lies.<\/p>\n

JWK: You know, the Jewish people in American and elsewhere have always associated with taking on liberal positions, particularly regarding civil rights for marginalized people. Do you feel abandoned by the left now?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>Oh, yes. Absolutely. I’ll tell you something. This is a time when it’s not just the Jews. I think people of faith are under attack in America. I think that Christians are taking security in their houses of worship very seriously. God<\/strong> bless them. They need to. There is this attack going in America (by) the left. It’s an attack on people of faith (and) the values of faith. It’s a very broad-based attack. The Jews are the easiest target. It’s like they’ve reduced everything to white people are oppressing brown people. So, unless you’re brown, you must be an oppressor…The real world is so much more complicated than that.<\/p>\n

I mean I’m an Orthodox Jew, a visible Jew. That’s why we have to take our security so seriously. What is our God-given mission to the world? To be a light to the nation, right? To show how to live a life of values, a life of peace, a life of family, a life built around Shabbat dinners and worshiping together every day. You know, this is America, the place where it’s all about being free to worship (and) to come together to espouse these traditional values. They’ve been under siege for quite a while and it’s getting worse and worse.<\/p>\n

JWK: You know, I’m old enough – you may not be – to remember the controversy in the seventies over the movie Death Wish<\/em> with Charles Bronson.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>Sure, the vigilante movie.<\/p>\n

JWK: People who felt assaulted by crime on the streets in the seventies loved watching the bad guys get theirs. Other people were disturbed by its portrayal of vigilantism. How do you think your movie will be received in 2025?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>The rabbi in the movie is very much defending his community. He’s not going out and hunting criminals on the street. He’s looking for the people who have murdered members of his community. Because the cops won’t investigate, he has to become the detective…I think that the consensus view that Gun and Moses<\/em> puts forward is that people with guns should be well-trained and constantly renewing their training to make sure that they can be effective in a time danger and stress. That’s something I think we can all agree on – but, if somebody is gonna come out publicly and say that it’s bad that Jews have guns at a time when Jews are literally physically being attacked, well, then they’re anti-Semites and I could care less what they say. We have to defend ourselves.<\/p>\n

JWK: So tell me about the character Rabbi Mo Zaltzman. How would you describe him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>You mean the character himself? How did we create him?<\/p>\n

JWK: Yeah.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL: <\/strong>I’m not a Chabad Jew but many of my friends are. He’s a Chabad rabbi. Even though he’s not named specifically as such, he’s very much a Chabad rabbi. There’s a sweetness to the whole Chabad community…It’s funny. People outside the Jewish community think Jews are Reformed, Conservative and Orthodox. Reformed Jews are sort of understandable. That’s one sort of pocket. Then Conservative is kind of understandable. They’re another pocket.<\/p>\n

The Orthodox world has hundreds of different kinds of Orthodox Jews. Among them are Hassidic Jews which is what you you kind of tend to identify with black hats and the long black coats. Those communities tend to very insular. Sort of like the Amish, they’re really going to protect their way of life, circle the wagons and make sure that within their community they can live in a very traditional way. They tend to not have smartphones or TVs and just not have outside influences so they can live a very pure lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Chabad is not that way because of the rebbe of the Chabad community who died in 1995<\/a>. He really created a new mission for them, which was to go out in the world and make Judaism, Torah and the Bible available for all Jews no matter where they are – and, by extension, really to all people because they very much feel that the Torah and the Commandments were given to the Jewish people on behalf of the whole world. That’s why it’s their mission to be a light unto the nation.<\/p>\n

JWK: In that sense, it’s almost like Christianity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL:<\/strong> A little bit. I mean they don’t seek to convert people to Judaism who are not Jewish. To the Chabad community so many Jews have become disconnected from the tradition, from Torah, (that) they don’t know what it really means to be a religious Jews. Chabad goes out there and says “This is what it means to be a Jew.”…So, a Chabad rabbi is really an emissary on behalf of the Jewish people bringing Judaism to Jews everywhere, and really bringing traditional values to all people in the communities where they go.<\/p>\n

The epitome is Rabbi Mo who is such a caring and sweet man. He really cares about his community, his congregation and who they are – educating them, feeding them and creating warmth and song.\u00a0 They don’t just eat together. They sing together. So, Rabbi Mo is very much cut from that cloth. He lovable, you know? So, it’s a tremendous challenge for a guy like that when his community is under threat to suddenly have to step into the role of a warrior. He’s terribly worried that he won’t pull the trigger if he has to – and that he will.<\/p>\n

JWK: So, he’s not like Rambo or the character Charles Bronson played in Death Wish<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL:<\/strong> No. He was not like some kind of special forces soldier before all this starts. However, the training that he goes through is very real world. Like I said, it’s based on my own experience in Magen Am.<\/p>\n

JWK: In a way it’s an action movie – but it’s not, may I say, kosher popcorn. There a serious message here, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

SL:<\/strong> Absolutely. Very serious. There really hasn’t been a movie like Guns and Moses<\/em>. It’s not a Holocaust drama. It’s not a shticky Adam Sandler<\/strong> movie. It’s a proper action thriller in the tradition of North by Northwest<\/em> , Chinatown<\/em> and The French Connection<\/strong><\/em>. It comes at a time when Jews are in real danger and when Hollywood is not producing content like this.<\/p>\n

I’d like to share with you a story. Shortly after we finished cutting the picture – and before the sound editing – my producing partners (and I) showed the movie to an agent at a major agency…This guy is an “expert” in what America is looking for, right? He watches the movie and he says “Great movie. You guys are gonna make a lot of money in streaming.”<\/p>\n

I said “Thank You very much but we see this as a theatrical movie.”<\/p>\n

He says “Nah. How many Jews are there really (outside of) New York, LA and Florida?”<\/p>\n

I said “Well, that’s an important part of our audience but a much bigger part of our audience is Christians and conservatives across America.”<\/p>\n

He said “What are you talking about? Those people hate Jews.”<\/p>\n

I look at this guy with my jaw on the floor. I’m like “Have you ever met the people that you fly over from New York to LA? Because you don’t know them. Like, it’s obvious you don’t know them.” I do know them because of my nonprofit work at Accidental Talmudist where I teach what’s beautiful in the Torah tradition stretching all the way back stretching all the way back to Mt. Sinai 3300 years ago. More than half of our million followers on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and a couple hundred thousand more on other platforms are not Jewish. They tend to be Christian and conservative. They’re very intrigued by this unbroken wisdom tradition. Jesus<\/strong> was Jewish. This is what His beliefs were built out of.<\/p>\n

The point is that this guy is<\/em> Hollywood. He very much represents how Hollywood views America. They have lost the plot. That’s why they produce woke failure after woke failure, one flop after another at the box office. They don’t know who America is and what America is looking for. There are not a lot of other people like me in this town, certainly not other movies like this.<\/p>\n

I think that faith-based movies have really taken a huge step forward, if you look at Kingdom Story Company<\/strong>, House of David<\/strong><\/em> and Jesus Revolution<\/em><\/strong>. Faith-based movies used to be cheesy. Now they’re operating at a much higher level which I think is great – but there’s been no kind of Jewish movie in that space, until now. So, we are very much arm-and-arm with our Christian brothers and sisters in that faith space where we’re gonna take movie making to a whole new level. <\/em><\/p>\n

Guns and Moses<\/em> is a very sophisticated, cinematic, action thriller that also happens to have a strong message. While we knew that Jews under attack who fight back would always be relevant, it’s unbelievable how timely Guns and Moses<\/em> is now.<\/p>\n

You can check out the film’s trailer here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John W. Kennedy is a writer, producer and media development consultant specializing in television and movie projects that uphold positive timeless values, including trust in God. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Encourage one another and build each other up – <\/span><\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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