The Chosen

Chaim Potok’s The Chosen tells the story of Reuven who is a devout Orthodox Jew with an intellectual Zionist father. Danny is the brilliant son of a Hasidic rebbe. A heated baseball game between their rival yeshivas lands them in the same hospital room and launches an unlikely but irreplaceable friendship, to be torn and tested by time. This acclaimed adaptation of Chaim Potok’s celebrated novel, set amid the religious and intellectual turmoil of 1940s Jewish America, explores the universal challenges of coming of age in a sea of conflicting values and of mounting the steep path to understanding and reconciliation.