Chanshi (Chanowitz), a young ultra-orthodox Jewish woman from Brooklyn has recently gotten engaged to Mendy (Gvirtsman). However, she surprises everyone, including her family by deciding to make aliyah to Israel before the wedding. Once in Israel and without her family's presence and expectations, she embarks on a series of adventures and seeks to fulfill her fantasies by sleeping with Israeli soldiers. Her father (Winkler) orders her to return home and continue with her wedding plans.[2][3][4]
Hannah Brown of The Jerusalem Post praised the series: I admire Chanowitz for dramatizing a dynamic that is very well known to Americans in Israel but hasn't been discussed on screen much before...Chanshi plays like a comic version of Unorthodox, the miniseries about an ultra-Orthodox young woman leaving the fold, crossed with Amarcord, Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical, often outrageous movie about a horny adolescent, and that’s a potent combination."[6]
The series received a total of 15 Ophir Award nominations:[7]
Best Comedy Drama Series (Aleeza Chanowitz)
Best Actress in a Comedy Series (Aleeza Chanowitz)
Best Directing in a Comedy Series (Aaron Geva and Mickey Triest)
Best Script in a Comedy Series (Aleeza Chanowitz)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series (Tomer Machloof)
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Lee Bader)
Best Cinematography (Ziv Berkovich)
Best Editing (Or Ben David, Danel Elpeleg and Adi Vishnia)
