“Poker Face” premieres on the streaming Peacock channel on Jan. 26th. It is a “case-of-the-week” mystery comedy-drama. NATASHA LYONNE, 43, produces the series and she stars in it (I gather she plays the only actor who will appear in all 10 episodes). An...

Comedian Jon Lovitz is having a moment thanks to disgraced congressman George Santos.  Not that Santos is a fan, having taken to Twitter to say how unimpressed he’s been with the myriad comedic takes on him. Lovitz fired back, saying that even his...

The New Jewish Theatre has begun its 2023 season with a superb staging of Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound.” The play is the third installment of Simon’s autobiographical Eugene Trilogy. In 2019, NJT presented the trilogy’s opening play, “Brighton...

Omer Friedlander is the winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) Jewish Fiction Award for his short story collection The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, published by Random House. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize and an invitation...

(JTA) – “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up seven nods Tuesday morning. A remake of a movie once targeted by the Nazis, a blockbuster...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Each season of Fauda features a new director and writer and the same kind of fool-proof formula. Co-creator and star...

My rabbi is taking a sabbatical. Rabbi Randy Fleisher of Central Reform Congregation also happens to be a mentor. He was my first summer camp counselor in 1981, where he made sure I studied for my bar mitzvah instead of going to activities one hour...

This story first appeared on the Jewish Women’s Archive Blog and is republished here with permission.  Living in Europe for the past few months, I’ve been struck by the similarities between traditional Jewish and European dishes. I was vaguely...

There is something quite wonderful about walking into a bookstore, engaging with all the possibilities in front of you, eventually making a choice and coming home with a brand-new book. But there is something also wonderful about picking up a used book,...

(JTA) — Like many of us left without plans during the initial COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, Lisa Edelstein spent some of her time rummaging through old family photographs. But instead of just basking in the nostalgia, she was also on the lookout for her...

(JTA) — Eric Alterman, born in 1960, says the view of Israel he absorbed growing up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York, was decidedly one-sided. “I went on this nerdy presidential classroom thing when I was in high school,” he...

With all the buzz going on around their new shop, the owners of the soon-to-open new "Lefty's Bagels" Doug Goldenberg and Scott Lefton are going to be talking to the public on Tuesday, January 24th as the featured guests on the monthly "Coffee Talk with...