Jews - Ep. 1: The Prisoner | The Hasidic Drug Dealer (2008) | BBC Documentary

Samuel Leibowitz is a member of an ultraorthodox Jewish sect and has been in prison for 9 years for drug trafficking. Released from prison he plans to return to his community in North London to try and live once again the life of an observant Hasidic Jew.

Samuel comes from Stamford Hill, a closed community in UK.
The jews in the neighborhood are hostile toward the media, and have almost never been filmed. It is a community of about 20 thousand extremely devout Jews who live according to the rules and customs of Judaism that date back to Jewish life in Eastern Europe several centuries ago.

Samuel is here 38 years old, and has spent half his adult life in prison in 3 different countries.
Both his arranged marriages ended in divorce and he has no contact with his two children. Released from prison on the condition he remains electronically tagged, and observes a curfew at night for the next five months. He now has to choose between his life of crime or religious conformity.

Documentary carries BBC's hallmark of superficiality for the first half, and sheds more light on his "hobby" in the latter half.
Episode is called "The Prisoner", and is the first of a 3-part series on Jewish life in Britain, simply called "Jews":
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00c8k2g/jews
(I won't be uploading the other two)

From:
https://documentaryheaven.com/hasidic-drug-dealer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuoDjIB_-vQ

https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/all/were-on-the-telly-1.3380
https://archive.is/B3cAZ