18 Windows (2007)

In 1956, against the backdrop of a Jewish world nearly destroyed by the Holocaust, the fusion of the Chevra Kadisha and B'nai Jacob synagogues in Montreal, one of North America's oldest and fiercely traditional Jewish communities, was a bold declaration of survival. Narrated by the congregants themselves and their charismatic rabbi, Asher Jacobson, 18 Windows features stories ranging from the personal to the mystical, revealing the diverse dimensions of a synagogue: as a house of prayer, a house of study, and an anchor for a spiritual community.