Yes, there are Jews in Montana! 

There’s an evangelical strand of Hasidic Judaism - Chabad-Lubavitch - spreading across the world. The Rabbi Goes West focuses on one Chabad rabbi, 34-year-old Chaim Bruk, who moved from Brooklyn to unlikely Bozeman, Montana, to bring his brand of Judaism to the American West. Part of his Chabad mission is to place a mezuzah, an encased prayer offering, on the doorpost of every Montana Jew. That’s less than 2,000 families spread across a state fourteen times larger than Israel. 

As he travels across this “big sky” landscape, Chaim confronts a terrifying neo-Nazi threat and faces objections to his proselytizing from some skeptical Jews and the state’s Reform and Conservative rabbis. While they acknowledge that he is beloved by his congregants, they fear his larger goal to put up Chabad centers everywhere in Montana. Will Chaim succeed in his Chabad expansion? And is there a cost?

Film rental includes a recorded conversation with co-director and producer Amy Geller, and co-director and writer Gerald Peary, which will automatically play after the film.