Mazel, or luck, can change fortunes in an instant: it is evasive, unreliable, and yet also indispensable. While some deride it as superstition, others consider it a science. In Christopher Thomas Allen’s film Schlimazeltov!, the existence of mazel remains a subject of constant debate for Jewish people in London, among them the comedian and Steve Coogan collaborator David Schneider, the economist Ronny Razin, and Rabbi Harvey Belovski.
Have you got it or not? London Jews argue the existence of ‘mazel’ or luck
Director: Christopher Thomas Allen
Producer: Andrew Hinton
16 April 2014
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