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Varun Dhawan (left) and Janhvi Kapoor in a scene from "Bawaal" set at Auschwitz. (Photo/Amazon Prime)
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In Amazon’s new Bollywood movie, a couple visits Auschwitz to heal their marriage

by Andrew Lapin July 26, 2023

(JTA) – At first glance, the new movie “Bawaal” has all the hallmarks of a typical Bollywood romantic melodrama: A self-centered protagonist learns how to be an adult and respect […]

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‘Undone’ imagines reversing intergenerational trauma in a Mexican-Jewish-American family

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz October 24, 2022October 25, 2022
Abbi Jacobson (right) in "A League of Their Own" on Amazon.
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In ‘A League of Their Own,’ queer representation is a home run. But Jewish representation leaves much to be desired

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Is ‘Hunters’ basically Jewsploitation? A journalist and a rabbi discuss Amazon’s Nazi-killing show.

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In ‘Hunters,’ Al Pacino and his gang of vigilantes target Nazis in 1970s America

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz February 21, 2020February 21, 2020
Tony Shalhoub with Rachel Brosnahan in season 3 of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." (Photo/Amazon Studios)
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How his Lebanese American upbringing helps Tony Shalhoub play a Jewish dad on ‘Mrs. Maisel’

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Subversively Jewish to the last, ‘Transparent’ goes out with a song

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz September 26, 2019October 1, 2019

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