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Chabad rabbis are typically known for hosting Friday night dinner, doing Hanukkah menorah lightings, and asking Jewish men on the street, "Have you wrapped tefillin today?"

But in Salvador and Nina Litvak's new film, "Guns & Moses," the Chabad rabbi and star of the film, Rabbi Mo (played by Mark Feuerstein of "Royal Pains"), is a brave rabbi who steps up when a friend is murdered in a shooting. He fights white supremacists and nefarious criminals, seeking out the truth about what happened while singing Jewish songs with his devoted wife and children.

"It was very important to me to create a ridiculously lovable Jewish character," said Nina, who co-wrote the film with her husband Sal. "There was always this whiny, nerdy, neurotic Jewish persona like Larry David and Woody Allen in Hollywood. We thought, enough of this already. It's been done so many times."

Rabbi Mo breaks the stereotypes of Jewish men usually portrayed on screen. He confronts his haters head on, takes gun lessons, and becomes an action hero like the world has never seen.

The Litvaks, who are based in Los Angeles, are just a few hours away from Poway, California, where a white nationalist walked into the Chabad of Poway, shot and killed congregation member Lori Gilbert-Kaye and wounded Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, another man, and his 8-year-old niece in 2019.

The day after the tragic shooting, Sal went to Poway to attend Lori's funeral to show their support and solidarity.

"Just seeing a community traumatized by this kind of thing in a Chabad shul was one of the strong inspirational elements of the movie," Sal said.