Code of Silence
Documentary
2014
58 min
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'Code of Silence' is an award winning one-hour observational documentary that follows the parallel journeys of a fervently Orthodox Jewish father and his now-secular son, after the son breaks the code of silence in Melbourne's Chabad-Lubavitch community going public with his story about being sexually abused as a student. Manny Waks demands the perpetrators be brought to justice, as well as the rabbis, whom he claims covered it up. His father Zephaniah, who claims he has been virtually excommunicated for informing secular authorities, demands his name be publicly cleared. But what price will the father and son pay for blowing the whistle on the leaders of this powerful Jewish sect? This is a deeply personal journey filled with intimate, emotionally charged and candid behind-the-scenes moments of two people waging the fight of their lives.
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"I am currently stuck in the house with Covid for another day and even though I’m feeling better, I wanted to watch something. This was recommended on prime video and as soon as I turned it on, I could not keep my eyes off of it. It was really interesting to me. I always like learning about different things and the trials and criticism that this man had to go through kind of blew my mind. I honestly didn’t know that this was a thing in the Hasidic/orthodox Jewish community in Australia. I didn’t know it was a thing in the whole entire community,"
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Sapphire Gunnarson