This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Late Night with Seth Meyers could have been called Late Night with Seth Trakianski. Meyers’ great-grandfather was...

A new podcast, "The Man Who Calculated Death" is the story of a person coming to terms with an ancestor who worked for the Third Reich. It is scheduled for release on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and is already generating positive buzz. The trailer alone has pushed...

This story was originally published on Moment.com. Sign up for the Moment Minute.  Just in time for Halloween, I have a few movies to recommend that have Judaism at their core. If you haven’t been paying much attention to horror movies lately,...

Opportunities to engage with the arts this fall are as vibrant as the season’s autumn leaves.   Theaters have scheduled comedies, dramas, mysteries and musicals. Other entertainment venues invite you to hear Chris Botti, Ann Hampton Callaway, Billy...

Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport, who was scheduled to perform at the Sheldon Music Hall in St. Louis on Saturday, Nov. 9, has canceled his show. MetroTix notified ticket holders, stating: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Michael Rapaport show...

The brightly colored “Sukkot boxes” offered up on Amazon boasted the colors of spring, not fall; had no ostensible use for the Jewish holiday; and contained a Hebrew misspelling that bordered on obscene. Reader, I bought them. And it wasn’t...

It was announced recently that Lior Raz, cocreator and lead star of Netflix’s hit show “Fauda,” is set to star in Hollywood crime thriller “Turner” alongside veteran actor Dustin Hoffman. According to a report in Deadline, the film “tells...

I’ll be the first to admit—I don’t typically spend my evenings watching rom-coms. After bingeing six seasons of "Vikings" and diving into the Menendez brothers' biopic, rom-coms just aren’t my go-to. However, when my wife, the lovely Leigh, suggested...

As a gender historian and scholar of intermarriage, I binge-watched the new Netflix series “Nobody Wants This” with a combination of foreboding and optimism. Depictions of romances between Jewish men and Christian women have been ubiquitous in...

In “White Bird,” Helen Mirren stars as a French Jewish grandmother who survived the Shoah, recounting her youthful experience to her grandson Julian (Bryce Gheisar), a boy who is struggling to fit in at his new school after being expelled from his...

Kate Winslet gives a powerful performance as war photographer Elizabeth “Lee” Miller whose images of concentration camps in post-war Germany helped proved the horror of the Shoah to the world, in the gripping, inspiring historical biopic “Lee.”  The...

“Nobody Wants This,” a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a blond, agnostic sex and dating podcaster played by Kristen Bell, is based on a true story — kind of. Erin Foster, the creator of...