Israeli documentary about transgender teens gets virtual screening By Andrew Esensten May 16, 2022 In honor of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, three Bay Area organizations will present a virtual panel discussion Tuesday about transgender identity in Israel, featuring the director of the Israeli documentary “Transkids” and two of the teenagers in the film. “Transkids,” which is in Hebrew with English subtitles, can be streamed for free in… Read More
Music Unable to film in Ukraine, Eurovision winners made intro video in Israel This year’s Eurovision Song Contest did not go Israel’s way — but even though the country didn’t make it to the final for the first time in six years, it… By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA May 16, 2022
TV Can a new Israeli Netflix series succeed if it flunks history? Freedom fighters, a bombing, an unwanted marriage and a forbidden Sephardi-Ashkenazi affair: “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem,” a new, long-awaited Israeli… By Mira Fox, Forward May 12, 2022
Theater ‘Funny Girl’ snubbed, but ‘Lehman’ stock rises, in Tony nominations Some of the biggest Jewish names on Broadway weren’t shining so bright in this year’s Tony nominations. The much-anticipated revival of “Funny Girl,” with… By Andrew Lapin, JTA May 12, 2022
Theater Cast your vote: Jewish Playwriting Contest comes to Bay Area A family of Jewish women connect over their shared grief and love of baking. A haredi woman adopts a biracial child after her marriage falls apart. A… By Andrew Esensten May 11, 2022
Art Welcome to America’s only Palestinian museum About 80 miles from New York City’s renowned Museum Mile stands a nondescript office building; its beige façade conceals the burst of color waiting just… By Cathryn J. Prince, Forward May 10, 2022
Books Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer for fiction The 2022 Pulitzer Prize in fiction went to “The Netanyahus,” a scathing, satirical novel by Brooklyn writer Joshua Cohen that imagines a visit by the… By Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA May 9, 2022
Books Mikołaj Grynberg's haunting stories provide portrait of postwar Poland Perhaps the most notable Jewish literary event of 2022 has been the release of the English translation of “The Books of Jakob,” Polish Nobel laureate Olga… By Howard Freedman May 9, 2022
TV ‘Heirs to the Land’: Spanish Jews take spotlight in new Netflix series 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… By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA May 9, 2022