YidLife Crisis

Seasons

2014

Canada

6

Drinking in the very best that Montreal's multicultural Mile End has to offer, Chaimie and Leizer, best friends and debating adversaries, tackle sex, drugs, and milk and meat... all in their grandparents' Yiddish (with English subtitles).

Episode List

S1 • E1

Breaking the Fast

Assembling at Montreal's Holy Temple of poutine, La Banquise, on the Jewish calendar's holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, Chaimie and Leizer argue about the meaning of the ritual of fasting while inevitably ritually eating.

S1 • E2

The Schmaltz

A chance ordering of a lean smoked meat sandwich in lieu of the usual schmaltzy one leads to not only the jeopardizing of Chaimie and Leizer's entire relationship but a deep meditation on the joys of fat - in all the right places.