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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The movie is in Hebrew, with English subtitles. Presumably a good deal of subtext gets lost in the translation.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Naomi breaks free of her father and her engagement to continue her studies (and, it is implied, work toward becoming the first female Orthodox Rabbi), but at the price of being disowned by her father. Michelle leaves Naomi and marry Yanki. Oh, and Anouk dies.}}

* [[Cluster F Bomb]]: Sigi, when Michelle starts a water fight in the soup kitchen.

* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Sigi, when Michelle starts a water fight in the soup kitchen.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Near the beginning of the movie, Sigi mentions she picked up a bit of French from her Moroccan grandmother. Later, when she is present for one of Anouk's purifying rituals, {{spoiler|this allows her to hear Anouk's confession, which she considers blasphemous, and she rats Naomi and Michelle out.}}

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Naomi's interaction with the Rebbetzin at the end, {{spoiler|right before Michelle's wedding}}:

** Rebbetzin: ...you so remind me of myself at your age... Naomi: I'm nothing like you. I'm not a coward.

* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Subverted. Sigi is newly religious, and it turns her from a friendly, adorable person into {{spoiler|a [[Well Intentioned Extremist]] who is willing to get her friends expelled from seminary for the sake of religious purity}}

* [[Heel Faith Turn]]: Subverted. Sigi is newly religious, and it turns her from a friendly, adorable person into {{spoiler|a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] who is willing to get her friends expelled from seminary for the sake of religious purity}}

* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]]: Michelle is from Lyon, and looks stylish and positively sexy compared to the frumpily dressed yeshiva girls.

* [[Fetish Fuel]]: Sackcloth. Also, repressed ultra-orthodox lesbians? Come on.

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* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|Michelle's wedding. Anouk's death.}}

* [[Teen Genius]]: Naomi

* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: Sigi

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Sigi