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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar. 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Emin Sansar-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inCulture

Volodymyr Zelensky, Mila Kunis, Zoë Kravitz among Jews on this year’s Time 100 list

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA May 24, 2022May 24, 2022
"Transkids" follows the gender transitions of four Jewish Israeli teens. (Photo/Ohad Romano)
Posted inFilm

‘Transkids,’ Israeli documentary about transgender teens, gets virtual screening

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 16, 2022May 18, 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
The cast of "Heirs of the Land" on set in Spain in 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

Spanish Jews take the spotlight in ‘Heirs to the Land,’ a Netflix series set pre-Inquisition

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 9, 2022
Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector in a very Jewish episode of "Moon Knight.
(Photo/Marvel Studios-Gabor Kotschy)
Posted inTV & Film

The slowly emerging Jewish identity of Moon Knight 

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
The exterior of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the days after a white supremacist murdered 11 people during Shabbat services in October 2018.
(Still from "Repairing the World")
Posted inFilm

Oakland anti-hate filmmakers train lens on Tree of Life synagogue massacre

by Sue Fishkoff May 2, 2022July 12, 2022
screenshot from "Ridley Road": a tall balding man, holds a blond woman's hand as they run through a crowd
Posted inTV

In PBS’ gripping series ‘Ridley Road,’ a Jewish woman infiltrates British neo-Nazis in 1962

by Andrew Lapin and JTA May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
Ben Foster as Harry Haft, a Holocaust survivor who becomes a professional boxer, in HBO’s “The Survivor.” (Photo/JTA-Jessica Kourkounis-HBO)
Posted inFilm

Ben Foster pulls no punches playing a Holocaust-survivor-turned-boxer in HBO’s new movie

by Andrew Lapin and JTA April 26, 2022
Amos Gitai in Paris in 2019 (Photo/Transfuge magazine-Laura Stevens)
Posted inFilm

Once censored, Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s ‘House’ finds a home at Stanford

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene April 25, 2022April 29, 2022
in a screenshot from Russian Doll, a woman with red hair peeks out of a subway car door
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In ‘Russian Doll,’ inherited Holocaust trauma spills through generations — via time travel

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward April 21, 2022April 22, 2022

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