Daniel (Part 12)

Fictionalized account of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's son, Daniel. (1983)

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Film & Animation

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• Sydney
• Lumet
• Julius
• Ethel
• Rosenberg
• Timothy
• Hutton

[likitty20]

you can tell that the execution is fake because when you get executed like that your body goes up in the air and stays there until the current is turned off

[wardenphil]

At 6:12, can someone explain the significance of what the condemned woman said to the Rabbi?

[Crazcompart]

@wardenphil - Exactly as cincitta stated...She didn't want the Rabbi presiding over her, and she wanted to symbolize her and her husband's death for her son's upcoming Bar-Mitzvah, or entry into manhood...

[Cretnor]

@likitty20

it sounds like he is tap dancing

[cinecitta812]

She says "I will not have him [the rabbi] here. Let my son be bar mitzvahed today. Let our deaths be his bar mitzvah." What she meant was that their deaths would make a man of Daniel rather than a superstitious religious ceremony.

[bastianskaye]

@wardenphil because she was doing to die, and she wanted to die knowing her son's bar mitzvah was accomplished?

[wardenphil]

@bastianskaye Thank you for your answer. You confirmed what I thought she said, asking the Rabbi to bar mitzvah her son "today". What puzzled me then, and still does, is that my understanding is that this consists of a significantly long course of study followed only then by the ceremony (a process analogous to a christian confirmation) - given this why would she ask for this process to be done in a single night?

[bastianskaye]

@Caterpillarjon no. he didn't.

[bastianskaye]

@wardenphil the bar mitzvah is a jewish ceremony of passing from childhood into adulthood for boys (usually at 12 or 13, at puberty). they read from the torah, and doing do, they're officially an adult and responsible for their actions.

girls have it, too. "bat mitzvah".

[LeighMet]

@skuzallen 1983