(JNS) -- A children’s book by Ruth Krauss called The Carrot Seed, first published in 1945, is a little read that packs a big punch. In it, the main character, a little boy who doesn’t even have a name, plants a seed in the ground amid a cast of naysayers....
(JNS) When Michael Aloni’s agent told him about “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” he was a bit confused. “Since when is there a beauty pageant in Jerusalem?” Aloni recalled asking at the time, at an event last week at Temple Emanu-El’s Streicker...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published February 21, 2022
As the Jewish entertainment community adores Rachael Brosnahan reprising her role on the acclaimed "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" with a new fourth season, there are plenty of other movies and television shows out there to explore this weekend. Maybe a few...
Aviya Kushner, The Forward
• Published February 16, 2022
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I didn’t expect the story of a con man bilking young women on a dating site for ginormous amounts...
By Dan Buffa and Jordan Palmer, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 14, 2022
Jenny Slate is the Jewish actress whose voice you know better than her actual physical appearance, something that is changing starting with her new movie this weekend on Amazon Prime.
Before the premiere of "I Want You Back," exclusively for the streaming...
Jessica Roda and Alexandra Stankovich
• Published September 7, 2021
Over the past four years, Netflix has released several shows related to people leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. These shows include “One of Us,” “Unorthodox” and most recently the reality TV show “My Unorthodox Life.”
Each time,...
Netflix’s best new comedy ends its first episode with a Nazi salute.
In the fictional mini Ivy, Pembroke University, a popular professor, Bill Dobson, strides into his packed classroom. He writes “Absurdism” on the board and, right above it,...
A.R. VISH, SPECIAL FROM ALMA
• Published May 6, 2021
This story originally appeared on Alma.com
“Shadow and Bone,” the latest sprawling, book-to-film fantasy adaptation to hit Netflix, is a lot of things. It is epic! It is swoony! It is twisty! It has a goat!
It is also distinctly Jewish, though...
(JTA) — An Oscar-winning documentary about the experience of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust that was produced by Steven Spielberg will be made available for streaming on Netflix.
“The Last Days” will be remastered from the original 35 mm...
(JTA) — Netflix acquired “Blackspace,” an eight-part Israeli thriller series about a school shooting carried out by masked figures, it was announced Thursday.
The show follows police as they investigate the death of four students, according...
No one asked for another "Karate Kid" sequel. Honestly. Nearly twenty years after the third and final film ended ("Karate Kid 3" scored a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes), creator Josh Heald introduced "Cobra Kai" to the world. But this chapter picked up with...
By Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 4, 2020
Stars of David — Jewish CelebritiesNew offerings and more In 1989, Betty Broderick entered the home of her ex-husband, Dr. Dan Broderick, and shot and killed Dan and his wife, Linda, in their bed. Broderick, the mother of Dan’s two children, claimed...
