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Julia Lindon in a scene from “Lady Liberty.” (Photo/Courtesy Classy Kid Productions)
Posted inTV

‘Lady Liberty’: Jewish Film Institute has Pride in livestream of funny TV pilot

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 15, 2020
Michael Stuhlberg as Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man."
Posted inTV

8 great Jewish movies only a click away

by Michael Fox June 9, 2020June 10, 2020
A police officer in the fictional haredi-run state in the Israeli TV series "Autonomies."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

‘Fiddler’ returns to big screen; ‘Shtisel’ guys do alt-history; Daveed Diggs rides a train; Gal Gadot is Hedy Lamarr; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 8, 2020June 9, 2020
Ben Cole as President Charles Linbergh (left) and John Turturro as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf in "The Plot Against America." (HBO)
Posted inHistory

FDR had a Jewish strategy much like the one in ‘Plot Against America’

Rafael Medoff by Rafael Medoff May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Patti Lupone as Avis Amberg in “Hollywood/” (Photo/Saeed Adyani-Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

In alternate history of ‘Hollywood,’ diverse characters get to act out their ambitions

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 26, 2020May 26, 2020
Loud Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman will soon voice an animated Santa Claus. (Photo/Gage Skidmore-Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Sarah Silverman is Santa Claus; Disney’s Jewish prince; Ben Platt hangs with Beanie Feldstein; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 25, 2020
In “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations” Rabbi Elisar Admon shows the hole where a bullet pierced his prayer book during the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. "It went right through the word for god."
Posted inFilm

Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS doc

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020
The line for a San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screening in 2013 (Photo/from file)
Posted inTV & Film

Jewish Film Institute receives emergency grant from motion picture academy

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky May 18, 2020May 19, 2020
The hosts of "Yenta Yenta Yenta Yenta."
Posted inJewish Life

Healing through shtick: Streaming show brings humor, matchmaking to the Closed-in People

Alix Wall by Alix Wall May 18, 2020May 21, 2020
Chloe Fineman, who grew up in the East Bay, is one of the newest members of "SNL." (Photo/Chloe Fineman-Instagram)
Posted inTV & Film

This ‘SNL’ newbie from the East Bay found her funny at Jewish summer camp

Erin Ben-Moche by Erin Ben-Moche May 14, 2020December 16, 2020

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