Time for a New God

Irwin Kula is an eighth-generation rabbi who teaches that every religion that thinks it has it all right, is surely all wrong. In this moving monologue along the beaches, wharves, hot dog stands and roller coasters of Coney Island, Irwin spins a web of wisdom in a time when nothing is simply what it is. Amidst the changing ethnicity of New York City, with its new sounds, peoples and rhythms, he offers religion as a “giant tool box.” And in an era when we have tamed the animals, can grow all the food we need and are the masters of the universe, the rabbi sweetly poses the question: “What kind of gods do we need?”
—Rick Silverman (from the 2004 program when this film first showed at Mountainfilm)