I

t’s been more than 80 years 
since World War II, but in 
the modern-day age, lin-
gering stereotypes persist. So 
how does one navigate those 
stereotypes in a relationship 
where two parties come from 
opposite sides of the world — 
and life?
Enter Shira Shalev (Moran 
Rosenblatt) and Maria Muller 
(Luise Wolfram), an Israeli 
Jewish and German lesbian 
couple living in Shalev’s apart-
ment in Tel Aviv. 
Then there’s Shalev’s con-
servative widowed grand-
mother, Berta Posnansky 
(Rivka Michaeli), a Holocaust 

survivor deeply impacted by 
the past, and her boyfriend, 
Ibrahim Hamati (Salim Dau), 
a Palestinian doctor working 
in Israel.
Together, tensions collide — 
and tempers flare — as these 
couples seemingly at complete 
odds explore love and life in a 
world where they’re destined 
to clash.
Kiss Me Kosher, which will be 
released on video-on-demand 
and digital platforms on Oct. 
20, is a coming-of-age roman-
tic comedy full of chaos and 
laughs.
Written and directed by 
Shirel Peleg, the largely Israeli 

language film (which has bits of 
English and German language 
scattered throughout) crosses 
borders — and decades.
As Shalev, an Israeli bar 
owner, and Muller, a German 
biologist, fall deeper and 
deeper in love, a split second 
in time changes everything. 
Upon moving into Shalev’s 
apartment, a ring accidentally 
falls out of Muller’s luggage, 
and Shalev believes she’s being 
proposed to. Naturally, she 
says yes to Muller.
Muller, equally in love with 
Shalev, allows the moment to 
unfold, however unexpected it 
may be. While most of Shalev’s 

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MOVIE ★★★✩✩

Tackles Generational Divides

Decades-old stereotypes threaten to tear apart two couples.
Kiss Me Kosher