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Wallace Shawn and Elena Anaya in "Rifkin's Festival," directed by Woody Allen.
Posted inCulture

Is ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Woody Allen’s love letter to cinema — or something more cynical?

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
From "Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis"
Posted inFilm

How the U.S. wined and dined Nazis, then destroyed the evidence, in Netflix doc

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward January 20, 2022January 20, 2022
Eric André plays a megachurch pastor in the new season "The Righteous Gemstones." (Photo/Ryan Green-HBO)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Eric André joins ‘Righteous Gemstones’; Judge Judy gets generous; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 18, 2022January 19, 2022
Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan in "Ray Donovan: The Movie." (Photo/Showtime)
Posted inTV & Film

Ray Donovan, the Irish fixer with a Jewish soul, gets his movie

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz January 11, 2022
David Alvarez as Bernardo in Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" remake. (Photo/JTA-Niko Tavernise-Twentieth Century Fox)
Posted inTV & Film

Golden Globes 2022: Andrew Garfield, and Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ win big

by JTA January 10, 2022
Comedian Bob Saget performs at the Improv Comedy Club at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., Feb. 24, 2006. (Photo/JTA-Ralph Notaro-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Bob Saget, comedian and actor who played Danny Tanner on ‘Full House,’ dies at 65

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA January 10, 2022
Footage from the Lumière brothers, capturing a train pulling into Jaffa station in 1896, is accessible on the Israel Film Archive website.
Posted inHistory

The Israel Film Archive collects more than a century of Israeli historical footage online. Here are the highlights.

by Karen Chernick and JTA January 5, 2022
Andrew Garfield in "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!"
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Drake nixes Grammys; Jon Stewart talks Harry Potter; Larry David is bald; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 4, 2022January 6, 2022
Saul Bellow in 1976 (Photo/U.S. State Department)
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Genius, jerk, misogynist, everyman — the many lives of Saul Bellow

by Julia M. Klein and Forward January 3, 2022January 3, 2022
Anneke von der Lippe as Alex (left) and Amos Tamam as Arik in "The Girl From Oslo." (Photo/Netflix)
Posted inTV

Searching for context after binging Israeli-Norwegian hostage drama ‘The Girl From Oslo’

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz December 29, 2021January 2, 2022

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