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Director Salvador Litvak drew inspiration from the 2019 Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting in California, where a gunman killed one worshipper and injured three others on the last day of Passover.
A new thriller hitting theaters this summer puts a gun-wielding rabbi at the center of America’s rising antisemitism crisis.
“Guns & Moses” follows Rabbi Moses Zaltzman (Mark Feuerstein), a beloved Hasidic leader in a small California desert town whose congregation is violently attacked during a gala honoring solar entrepreneur Alan Rosner (Dermot Mulroney).
Police quickly arrest a local skinhead with a history of threatening the Jewish community, but Rabbi Mo becomes convinced they have the wrong suspect.
With no one else willing to investigate and bodies piling up, Feuerstein’s character transforms from spiritual leader to armed detective.
His hunt for the real killer leads him to suspects including the town mayor (Neal McDonough), Rosner’s mysterious wife (Mercedes Mason), a disgraced scientist whose career Rosner destroyed (Paulo Costanzo), and even Rosner himself.
According to Collider, Director Salvador Litvak drew inspiration from the 2019 Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting in California, where a gunman killed one worshipper and injured three others on the last day of Passover.
“This film is more than a story — it’s a conversation we need to be having. Every moment on set carried the weight of real lives at stake. Jews are under attack. When we say ‘never again,’ it means we need to step up and defend ourselves. And thank God we have allies in this fight,” Litvak said in a statement.
“Moving toward release, we’re not just sharing a movie — we’re inviting audiences into a movement for security, partnership and responsibility around firearms.”
“Guns & Moses” premiered at the 2024 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival and is scheduled for theatrical release on July 18.
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