(JTA) — The Union for Reform Judaism shut down its Kutz Camp program for young leaders in 2019, but now the camp is finding a second Jewish-ish life: as a stand-in for a fictional camp in a Ben Platt movie.
“Theater Camp,” a musical comedy starring...
By Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published June 10, 2022
When you think of numbers tattooed on wrists, you probably think of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors with numbers inked on their forearms. But for some fans of “Stranger Things,” Netflix’s cult favorite horror show, they think of Hawkins, Indiana,...
By Nicky Blackburn, Israel21c
• Published June 10, 2022
Good news for Fauda fans. The critically-acclaimed TV show that has swept the world has announced that the new season will be released in Israel on July 13.
On Twitter, the shows' official account announced that the fourth season will premiere on Israel’s...
NATE BLOOM, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published June 9, 2022
The sixth “Jurassic Park” movie, “Jurassic World Dominion,” opens in theaters on June 10. In this sequel, humans and dinosaurs now live near each other all over the world and the question is: Who will emerge as the “apex predator?”
The...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 8, 2022
Israel’s most popular comedy of recent years does not focus on the peculiar or the exotic, but rather the most mundane of settings — the Israeli supermarket. With a diverse cast of characters, “Checkout” satirizes both the differences and common...
One day in late October 1941, Pope Pius XII received chilling news. A bishop in Slovakia wrote to say that the country’s Jews “are simply being shot … systematically murdered, without distinction of sex or age.”
We can get a sense of how Pius...
(JTA) – She popularized the term “Jewface” to describe non-Jewish actors playing Jewish roles, and kicked off a heated cultural conversation in the process.
Now, Jewish actor and comedian Sarah Silverman is joining the cast of a movie that casts...
BY JUDITH NEWMARK, SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH LIGHT
• Published June 7, 2022
Ken Ludwig has no idea why his mother destroyed the letters that she and his father exchanged during World War II.
“Maybe they were too intimate” for anyone else to read, mused the playwright, a man whose many credits include the sparkling musical...
(JTA) — Last month, Adam Sandler threw his daughter a star-studded bat mitzvah party.
Now it looks like his production company is making a bat mitzvah-themed film.
The casting site Backstage has posted a casting call for an in-the-works adaptation...
Jewish dad Andy Cohen and his kids, three-year-old Ben and baby Lucy, are truly a blessing to us all. Cohen recently posted a video of Ben giving him a pep talk in the car — and it will not only cure all of your potential road rage but will also...
(JNS) Being a Mossad operative in Iran isn’t a job for the faint of heart. Viewers get a sense of such intensity watching “Tehran” on Apple TV+, a show that will keep them on the edge of their seats.
In Season 1, Israeli actress Niv Sultan proved...
(JTA) — As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one hundred anti-Semitic groups operating...
