Movie Review: Tango Shalom

Tango Shalom | The Dancing Rabbi of Crown Heights

Tango Shalom Released February 11, 2021 1 hour 55 minutes Directed by Gabriel Bologna Convivencia Forever Films Comedy, Family, Dance: English Hasidic rabbi Moshe Yehuda is a father of five whose Hebrew school is on the verge of bankruptcy. His brother, Rahamim, is entangled in a scam while simultaneously begging for help to pay for his upcoming wedding to, oy, a progressive woman. This disastrous state of affairs is exacerbated by their mother’s antipathy toward Rahamim’s fiancée, Marina Zlotkin, as well as her son’s future mother-in-law, Leah. Rabbi Yehuda, a talented amateur hora dancer in his spare time, tramps across Brooklyn in search of paid employment. With no end in sight to his mounting tsuris, he and his family face disastrous financial and emotional ruin. But then one day, while waiting at a bus stop, Moshe hears music coming from a Latin...

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