YidLife Crisis

- Season 1

(2014)

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.

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.

Chaimie and Leizer settle the age old Talmudic argument - St. Viateur or Fairmount bagel for the win?

Chaimie tries to get Leizer out of his Maccabean shell by proving the virtues of Hellenistic culture and the power of a pita.