Bee Season–movie review by Rabbi Lawrence Kushner: “Sometimes a movie can be important for its inaccuracies. Take Bee Season, for example. The story takes place in Oakland, Calif., and ricochets off the foibles of the members of the Naumann family: Eliza, a grade school girl with a gift for spelling; Aaron, her older brother, who is a spiritual seeker; their mother who, it turns out, is basically bonkers; and their father, who is a religion professor and failed Kabbalist (Jewish mystic). It is a beautifully photographed but unsatisfying rendition of Myla Goldberg’s beautifully written but unsatisfying novel of the same name. Despite its disappointments, however, Bee Season inadvertently offers some highly instructive insights into the state of religion–and, specifically, Kabbalah–in America today. ” (belief.net)