(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...

(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...

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...

(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,...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...