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Both of Julianna Margulies' parents
are Jewish, but she wasn't raised in any
particular faith. Her formative years
coincided with her mother's extensive
spiritual searching (she finally settled
on anthroposophy, a theosophical
movement).
"I had a taste of everything,"
Margulies said, "and I feel very well-
balanced in my spiritual life because of
it. I don't feel religious at all, but I do
understand it."
Which isn't to say that she totally
understood Rachel's devotion.
"She's the only one in the movie,
really, to say this is a beautiful life,"
explained Margulies. "The purpose for
a Chasidic Jew — a woman — is to
have children and keep a kosher home
and support your husband in his
prayers and in his lifestyle. I couldn't
do it. I would feel like I was in jail,
but [Rachel] is so proud of that.
"When I was doing research," she
added, "I'd call my mom almost every
day and thank her for not raising me
Chasidic. It's a rough role."
The Texas-born Renee Zellweger, a
second-generation American whose
father is Swiss and mother is
Norwegian, grew up Episcopalian but
already "knew quite a bit about
Judaism."
"My first love is Jewish," Zellweger
said, "and I took some classes at the
University of Texas when I was at
school just to understand him and his
culture better."
Even with her previous studies, she
knew very little about the Chasidim
and "did -a lot of homework."
"I was pleasantly surprised at what
pride the women take in their roles,"
she explained, but sees her own life as
having "different opportunities. I
wouldn't say more opportunities, defi-
nitely different opportunities."
"I couldn't adapt to a lifestyle like
C; that, not now," Zellweger added. "I
mean if I were raised in it and I found
my place in it, and if I found satisfac-
tion in it, sure."
For A Price Above Rubies (the title
refers to Proverbs 31:10, "A woman of
fortitude, who can find? For her price
is far above rubies"), Boaz Yakin drew
on a host of influences, including
Marc Chagall and Isaac Bashevis
Singer and stories about the dybbuk
and golem.
Another influence was studying
script interpretation with Stella Adler
when Yakin was still a teen-ager. Adler
had brought his father, theater director
Moni Yakim (his parents use a differ-
ent spelling) to the United States from

Israel to teach at her famed school. It
was Adler's extensive examination of
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House that res-
onated with Yakin when he was writ-
ing A Price Above Rubies.
One thing that Yakin very con-
sciously tried to avoid was making
another A Stranger Among Us, Sidney
Lumet's 1992 film which was lambast-
ed for the liberties it took in presenting
a Chasidic community in Brooklyn.
"It was everything that I was trying
not to do in this film," Yakin said. "One
of the things that I find so annoying
about a lot of Hollywood films that deal
with cultures other than mainstream
American culture is that they emphasize
the otherness, the exoticism.
"What I really wanted to do with
this film is de-exoticize it: use some of
that background as a backdrop, as a
setting, as a texture, and just go for
the emotional heart of the story."
The confidence that the 32-year-old
Yakin demonstrates as a filmmaker
comes in part from his background.
He sold his first script to Hollywood
when he was 19. He left New York
University and has worked profession-
ally ever since. He made his first indie
film, Fresh, about a 12-year-old drug
courier; it won the Filmmaker's
Trophy at the 1994 Sundance Film
Festival.
Yakin's parents — his father is a
Syrian-Egyptian Jew and his mother's
family is from Poland — were both
born in Israel and met while studying
mime with Marcel Marceau in Paris.
Now, they both teach acting at
Juilliard. Boaz Yakin was born and
raised on New York's Upper West Side,
where he now lives.
So he feels he understands the
Chasidic protesters who briefly inter-
rupted the filming of A Price Above
Rubies in Brooklyn, and those who
recently rallied outside of the Miramax
headquarters in New York City. But
that doesn't mean he agrees with them.
"There are many Chasidim who see
the outside world as a threat, who
essentially create walls around them-
selves in order to separate themselves
from an unwanted secular society,"
said Yakin. "Then there are people
who want to be involved with society
at large and so on, and that's where a
huge amount of the conflict lies.
"It's interesting to me that for so
many thousands of years, Jews have
been ghettoized, Jews have been dis-
criminated against, Jews have been
pushed aside. [Yet] here you have a sit-
uation today where essentially we don't
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