Here is a sampling of our stories in “Who Wrestled With God”

Kokasi Keki, is a young Ugandan Jewish leader. He has been thrust into the role of principal at the Hadassah Primary School in Mbale, Uganda, after the untimely passing of his father, the great teacher Aaron Kintu Moses. Years ago when Idi Amin outlawed Judaism under his oppressive regime, Aaron and his brothers acted in secret to keep their traditions alive. Now the responsibility lands on Kokasi's and his generation's shoulders as he navigates the challenges of two strict COVID-19 Lock downs to not only keep Judaism alive, but his community as well.

Myriam Ackermann Sommer and her husband Emile are both studying to become Orthodox rabbis. However when Myriam attains her ordination, or smicha as its known in Hebrew, she will make history, and waves as France's first orthodox female rabbi. Will one of the world's most traditional Jewish societies accept her? Almost certainly not. So she and her husband are making a community of their own. She has inspired a cohort of young Jews to take her lead, they empower themselves through the study of ancient Jewish texts, and confront the most unsavory traditions rather than escape them.

Ari Beser is a filmmaker, photographer and a writer who for the last ten years has focused his lens on the survivors of nuclear war who are actively abolishing nuclear weapons. His grandfather, Jacob Beser, was the only man in the world to fly aboard both planes that dropped the atomic bombs in WWII, and he feels it is his duty to carry on the message so that people do not forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki, especially as the world inches closer to a far more fatal nuclear catastrophe. From a young age, Ari dedicated his career to the story of the atomic bomb survivors, hoping to tell their experiences to the world, hoping to share a warning prolific enough to save it. However, when it comes to being Jewish, all he thinks he does is try to form a career out of “Tikkun Olam” the concept of doing acts of good to save the world. He knows enough about Judaism to question whether he is “Jewish” enough to be followed in a documentary about Jews. But, as the worlds antisemitism is on the rise again, Ari decided to turn his lens on himself, to question his own identity, and in the process, ask some of the worlds most renown Jewish thought leaders what even is Judaism.