Film
Short film starring Tovah Feldshuh comes to San Jose film fest
Just in time for Passover, a dramatic short starring beloved Jewish actor Tovah Feldshuh is being shown by a San Jose–based film festival. “The Book of…
Celebrity Jews
Netta joins Israeli 'X Factor'; Spielberg tells his own story; etc.
Get the shot, celebs say Celebs posting their “vaxxies,” or post-vaccine selfies, is a thing. Gloria Steinem, Jeff Goldblum, Mandy Patinkin and English…
Culture
Our Pandemic Year: Artists faced a choice — pivot or perish
Part Three of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. Debra Schaffner has spent much of…
Music
The Jewish highlights of the 2021 Grammys
When the Jewish sister act Haim took the stage at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, Americans began googling “hime.” That’s how host Trevor Noah…
Film
Documentary on Israeli wine turns sour on kosher issue
If you want to see a fabulous exposé on modern-day winemaking in Israel, you need go no further than “Holy Wine,” which will be streaming in this year’s…
First Person
Medical dramas keep perpetuating stereotypes about Orthodox Jews
A version of this essay originally appeared on Alma. Last month, the Jewish internet was shocked by a scene from the TV medical drama “Nurses.” The…
Film
It’s Year 2 online for Sonoma JCC’s annual Israel film fest
The Israeli Film Festival that’s produced annually by the JCC of Sonoma County will continue a newish tradition in 2021: This will be the event’s second…
TV
‘Shtisel’ Season 3 Netflix release date announced
Season 3 of the hit haredi Orthodox drama series “Shtisel” will debut on Netflix on March 25, Israel’s Yes Studios announced Tuesday. The first two…
Film
'Yiddish' documentary spotlights old poets and their young admirers
One of the joys of Yiddish, to appropriate the title of Leo Rosten’s essential 1968 cultural dictionary, is how swaths of young people around the globe…