(JTA) — Two years ago, a poll on Twitter tried to settle once and for all how to refer to the corner of the social media platform where Jews conversed. “Jwitter” got two thirds of the 525 votes, with the rest falling to “Jtwitter.”
Whatever...
(New York Jewish Week) — Ella Joy Meir, the Brooklyn-based musician who leads the alt-pop group Iris Lune, did not expect to spend the first five months of the pandemic sequestered in her father’s home in Israel. She and her wife, journalist Mikhal...
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(JTA) – At the fancy private school where he has just started his first day, Jewish sixth-grader Paul Graff (Banks Repata) is asked by a major donor what his last name means. Sheepishly, he admits that it was shortened...
By PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published November 8, 2022
Peacock’s “The Calling” begins with a man in a hotdog suit booked for murder and a detective saying a Hebrew prayer over a victim’s body. It’s not your normal prime-time procedural and the detective is no ordinary policeman.
NYPD detective...
“The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive” is a methodically researched and harrowing book about Otto von Wachter, a high-ranking SS member and one-time governor of Krakow.
(New York Jewish Week) — After a smash-hit run interrupted by COVID, “Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish” is returning next week for a seven-week run at Manhattan’s New World Stages.
For many in the cast, Jewish or not, returning to “Fiddler”...
(JTA) — As Kanye West extended his antisemitic spree by tweeting about Jewish agents in Hollywood, the rocker John Mellencamp took the stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said this about his longtime lawyer: “Allen is Jewish.”
The line...
Caleb Guedes-Reed, JTA
• Published November 4, 2022
(JTA) — “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” isn’t just the name of a track on Taylor Swift’s newest album — the phrase describes the way many of the pop star’s Jewish fans were feeling after she released the dates for her upcoming tour.
This...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 4, 2022
In "Remember This," Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn gives a brilliant, tour-de-force performance as Jan Karski, a heroic Polish diplomat, soldier and Resistance fighter who was smuggled out of war-torn Europe to deliver the first eye-witness report...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 3, 2022
“Armageddon Time” is a family drama about a Jewish boy in Queens, New York in 1980. Writer/director James Gray's semi-autobiographical drama is set at a pivotal moment for the boy, as the moral guidance of his beloved grandfather contrasts with the...
A disoriented teenage girl lies on Anne Frank’s bed as people swarm the family house. But these people are not Nazis; they’re modern-day tourists. And the girl on the bed isn’t Anne, but Kitty — the imaginary friend to whom she addressed her now...
