In her own time Center for Visual Anthropology, University of Southern California ; producers, directors, Vikram Jayanti, Lynne Littman ; director, Lynne Littman

Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Tells also how, after exhausting medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions, faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews.