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Rabbi Jill Hausman of the Actors' Temple in New York appears on “Saturday Night Live” on May 18, 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube)
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Meet Jill Hausman, the real rabbi who grimaced through jokes about Jews on SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 20, 2024
The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit opens Sunday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
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L.A.’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 17, 2024May 21, 2024
(From left) Jerry Seinfeld as Bob Cabana, Adrian Martinez as Tom Carvel, Jack McBrayer as Steve Schwinn, Thomas Lennon as Harold Von Braunhut, Bobby Moynihan as Chef Boyardee and James Marsden as Jack LaLanne in “Unfrosted.” (Photo/John P. Johnson-Netflix)
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In ‘Unfrosted,’ Jerry Seinfeld plays with his food

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Israeli show about rabid soccer fans sidesteps anti-Arab racism

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Jerry Seinfeld performing in 2019. (Photo/Ralph_PH via Flickr CC BY 2.0)
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In Seinfeld’s new anti-woke kvetch, a tale of two Pop-Tart jokes

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Anna Próchniak as Gita and Jonah Hauer-King as Lali in Peacock's "The Tattooist of Auschwitz." (Photo/Martin Mlaka-Sky UK)
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‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ tackles a Holocaust love story based on real events

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov April 22, 2024May 1, 2024
(From left) Daniel Thrasher, Michaela Watkins, Carol Kane, Henry Hall and Dan Bakkedahl in “Dinner with the Parents,” an American riff on the British Shabbat sitcom “Friday Night Dinner.” (Photo/Olly Courtney-CBS)
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‘Dinner with the Parents’: A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia

by Dan Friedman April 19, 2024April 19, 2024
Larry David has a lot to answer for in the finale of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." (Photo/John Johnson-HBO
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In ‘Curb’ finale, Larry David defends his life — but has he learned his lesson?

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Avi Azulay as Moses holds the Ten Commandments in the Netflix series “Testament: The Story of Moses,”. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
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‘Testament: The Story of Moses’ is one of Netflix’s top shows — and it features multiple rabbis

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg April 3, 2024
Screenshots from Cantor David Fair's first "I'm a cantor" video on TikTok.
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He’s a cantor, and he’s poking fun at misconceptions about his job on TikTok

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