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Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.

Tom Sturridge as Dream with his very powerful and important bag of sand and gas mask thing in "Sandman. "(Photo/Forward-Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV

Judaism, mythology and God knows what else haunt the dreams of Netflix’s ‘Sandman’

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward August 9, 2022August 9, 2022
Praying before a meal in “Under the Banner of Heaven.” (Photo/Courtesy FX)
Posted inTV

Mormonism and Judaism are dominating television. Is that good for representation?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward July 28, 2022
The two Annes go head to head. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Adi Eshman)
Posted inFilm

SFJFF: What happens if a Black non-Jewish woman plays Anne Frank?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward June 10, 2022July 25, 2022
A shot of two of the children’s tattoos in the Netflix series “Stranger Things.”
Posted inTV & Film

‘Stranger Things’ fans deny their tattoos evoke the Holocaust — but it’s a growing trend.

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward June 9, 2022June 9, 2022
There’s no prize money for winning "Great Australian Bake Off," just flowers and “quite a nice cake plate” that Rossanis said she has hidden so her children don’t smash it. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Rossanis)
Posted inTV

She won ‘The Great Australian Bake Off’ — with kosher boob cakes

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward June 8, 2022June 8, 2022
Elon Musk has been mum on the details of how he will try to reshape Twitter. (Photo/JTA-SOPA Images, design by Grace Yagel)
Posted inNews

Antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds continue to swirl on Twitter

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward May 20, 2022May 20, 2022
Michael Aloni and Hila Saada as the central couple in "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem." (Photo/YES Studios)
Posted inTV

‘The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’: Can a new Israeli Netflix series succeed if it flunks history?

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward May 12, 2022June 2, 2022
in a screenshot from Russian Doll, a woman with red hair peeks out of a subway car door
Posted inTV & Film

In ‘Russian Doll,’ inherited Holocaust trauma spills through generations — via time travel

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward April 21, 2022April 22, 2022
(Illustration/Forward-Anya Ulinich)
Posted inTheater

Can an all-Mormon cast pull off ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? I went to Utah to find out.

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward April 12, 2022
Brosnahan as the titular Marvelous Mrs. Maisel doing stanup comedy
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How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ undercuts its own feminist and Jewish identity

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward March 29, 2022

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