Nor By Day, Nor By Night

It’s a summer day in Bnei Brak, Rafael had just celebrated his bar mitzvah and the fateful minor-yeshiva exams are underway. The Talmud Torah students are studying diligently, Rafael, who is considered to be the most qualified and dedicated of his class-is heartbroken. He knows well that his Sephardic background won’t allow his acceptance into the community’s prestigious Ashkenazi institutes, no matter how hard he tries.