Movie Critique:   " Hare Krishna! The Mantra, The Movement, and The Swami who started it all ”.  (2017) Youtube Link Director: John Griesser   “For love is fierce as death, zeal as tough as the underworld, its pangs are tongues of fire, a Godly flame.” (Song of Songs 8, 6) This documentary film follows the improbable rise of Swami Srila Prabhupada from a penniless immigrant sleeping in the office buildings of New York, to the founder of “The International Society for Krishna Consciousness” (popularly known as “Hare Krishna”), a Hindu religious movement numbering ~ 1000 temples worldwide with an estimated number of followers between one to a few million. This global Hindu movement is noted for being composed primarily of non-Indian converts to Hinduism, thus being the only Hindu sect that seeks to proselytize. As is obvious to any Jew who knows something about the movement, many Jews fill their ranks, including many in senior leadership. For this film, the d...