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The cast of 'Heirs of the Land' perform during filming in Spain in 2020. (Courtesy of Netflix)

Spanish Jews take the spotlight in Netflix series about the Inquisition

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ, JTAPublished May 6, 2022

(JTA) — The series “Heirs to the Land” that dropped on Netflix last month looks, at first glance, like just another installment in the fast-growing genre of Spanish period dramas. In some ways it is, featuring the familiar mix of romance, violence...

Orna Guralnik was born in the United States to Israeli parents and moved to Israel at age 7. (Courtesy of Showtime)

How Orna Guralnik went from the Israeli army to ‘Couples Therapy’ stardom

SARAH ROSEN, JTAPublished May 6, 2022

(JTA) — Since the Showtime docuseries “Couples Therapy” premiered, some might calls its psychologist star Orna Guralnik the world’s therapist.  “I’ve become something,” she corrected, via Zoom. “I don’t know what to call it, but...

Podcast | AIPAC And Insurrection Republicans

Podcast | AIPAC And Insurrection Republicans

TCJewFolkPublished May 5, 2022

The Jews Are Tired is a weekly podcast of the big stories around the Jewish world, through a Jewish Journalist’s analytical lens. This week: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of the most influential pro-Israel lobbying groups, is...

Should Jews be kvelling over “Moon Knight?"

Should Jews be kvelling over “Moon Knight?”

Alan Zeitlin, JNSPublished May 5, 2022

(JNS) --  Jews kvell when an athlete is Jewish. When it’s a superhero, even better. Disney’s mesmerizing series “Moon Knight” features what is believed to be the first overtly Marvel Jewish character in a major film or series in the form of alter-ego,...

The Abeles family wrapped in Eli's tallit that he wore on his bar mitzvah 30+ years ago. Photo: Spoonful of Sugar Photography

Aaron Abeles honors his dad with special Bar Mitzvah project

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished May 5, 2022

Aaron Abeles has experienced losses no 13-year-old boy should ever know. He also has the maturity, at his age, to understand how to take those tough experiences and turn them into something good and beautiful. "It probably won’t surprise anyone that...

Lea-Rachel Kosnik with her husband, Logan, and their son, Vincent.

The challenge of interracial adoption: “Is he with you?”

LEA-RACHEL KOSNIKPublished May 5, 2022

“You should be a mother,” was what my own mother said to me the week before she died. I held her thin, weakened hand across the hospital bed and nodded. I was in my early 20s, and children seemed a far away possibility in an unlikely land that included...

Set rules, stay connected as your child navigates social media

Set rules, stay connected as your child navigates social media

RICHARD LAZAROFF, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 4, 2022

The number of hours we all spend using social media is creeping upward, and the pandemic has accentuated this trend. Managing how best to address this with children and adolescents in the home is a complex but necessary task for parents. It is easiest...

New Truman bio offers balanced perspective on his presidency

New Truman bio offers balanced perspective on his presidency

ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief EmeritusPublished May 4, 2022

In his superbly written new biography, “The Trials of Harry S. Truman,” Jeffrey Frank, a Presidential historian, avoids both adulation and harsh judgment of the Man from Missouri. For admirers and skeptics of HST, Frank, who previously wrote about...

Cindy Levin. Photo: Bill Motchan

Advocacy leader’s work inspires others to become activists

BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish LightPublished May 4, 2022

If you’ve ever signed a petition, written a letter to the editor or marched for a cause you believe in, you participated in a form of advocacy. It’s an act of free speech that can help call attention to important issues. Cindy Levin has made advocacy...

Jennifer Grey knows you care about her nose

PJ Grisar, THE FORWARDPublished May 4, 2022

In her new memoir, Jennifer Grey leads with her nose. For the first 29 years of her life, the “Dirty Dancing” star’s trademark proboscis was her pesky “friend,”  demanding three-quarter profile headshots. It was the feature that prompted her...

Bob Dylan.  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Why are Bob Dylan’s archives in Tulsa?

Seth Rogovoy, The ForwardPublished May 3, 2022

Why Tulsa? To be more precise: Why is the new Bob Dylan Center – home to the Nobel Prize laureate’s archive as well as gallery space that will perpetually play host to 16 revolving exhibitions based on the archive’s holdings — located in...

Greatest Jewish Hits: What to watch in Jewish entertainment this week

Greatest Jewish Hits: What to watch in Jewish entertainment this week

Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish LightPublished May 3, 2022

What should we watch? A question as universal as what you put on popcorn and what drink you would like never goes unused. The hard part of the day is over, so a movie has to be consumed. If not a movie, a television show because there will be more to...

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