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Lynn Winter Gross (left) and Miriam Goodman producing their podcast “Not Born Yesterday.”
Posted inCulture

‘Not Born Yesterday’: Longtime friends team up to produce podcast on aging

by Liz Harris December 23, 2021
"Let It Be Morning" was Israel's entry for the 2022 Academy awards. (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inFilm

Israel’s controversial Oscar submission misses shortlist

by Tom Tugend and JTA December 22, 2021
Screenshot from the official "Spider-Man: No Way Home" app
Posted inTV & Film

What Yiddish — and the Forward — are doing in the new Spider-Man movie

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
Andy Samberg and Maya Rudolph are the hosts of "Baking It."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Schlubby Adam Sandler couture blows up; Hanukkah takes over ‘Baking It’; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 21, 2021December 21, 2021
Israeli actresses Alena Yiv (left) and Shira Haas play a mother and daughter in "Asia." (Photo/Courtesy Menemsha Films)
Posted inCulture

The best Jewish (and Jew-ish) films of 2021

PJ Grisar by Irene Katz Connelly, PJ Grisar and Forward December 20, 2021December 20, 2021
From “When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers” by New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Yorker cartoonist brings to life lost Yiddish essays by European teens of 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 17, 2021December 20, 2021
"Santa Inc.," an eight-episode series on HBO Max, features the voices of Jewish comedians Sarah Silverman, as elf Candy Small (left) and Seth Rogen as Santa.
Posted inTV & Film

Silverman and Rogen’s ‘Santa Inc.’ brings raunch and activism to Christmas

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz December 16, 2021December 20, 2021
(Photo/Forward-Courtesy Viola Spolin Estate)
Posted inCulture

How one Jewish woman became the mother of improv comedy

by Joshua Flanders and Forward December 16, 2021December 16, 2021
UC Hastings Jewish faculty and students commissioned San Francisco artist Abrasha to make a mezuzah for the second family. 
Posted inArt

UC Hastings to Kamala Harris: Where’s the mezuzah we sent you? 

by John Ferrannini December 15, 2021April 9, 2022
Andrew Garfield in "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!"
Posted inCulture

Steven Spielberg, Tracee Ellis Ross among Jewish Golden Globes nominees for 2022

by Emily Burack and JTA December 13, 2021

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