"Fires in the Mirror"

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This paper explains that, in the television movie "Fires in the Mirror", both the Black and Hasidic communities express anger, sadness and hurt because they misunderstand each other. The author points out that the film focuses on the perceptions they have of each other following an auto accident killing one child and injuring another, which involved a member of the Hasidic group, and the subsequent stabbing of a Hasidic rabbinical student, which involved a member of the Black group. The paper relates that the film expounds that the Hasidic community does not want to integrate and work things out with the Black community because their religious doctrine stresses separation from the general community.

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"The stabbing which occurred after the car accident left the Hasidic community upset as much by the incident, but maybe more by the perceived insensitivities by the greater community. The mayor arrived at the hospital to offer condolences to the family of the slain child, but when he inquired as to the condition of Jewish stabbing victim, was told that he was in serious, but stable condition. The surrounding individuals could see something was not well with the Hasidic male, whom later died, according to the Jewish community as gross mismanagement."

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