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Still from “Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History.”
Posted inTV

America’s Black-Jewish story gets an update on new PBS series

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg February 4, 2026February 4, 2026

(JTA) — Passover may still be two months away, but PBS is seating a diverse set of Jews down for a seder this week — casting the communal storytelling meal […]

Survivor David Wisnia and his pianist grandson Avi in a scene from “How Saba Kept Singing,” a documentary airing on PBS on April 18. (Photo/JTA-Retro Report)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA April 17, 2023
An anti-Nazi protest in America, seen in "The U.S. and The Holocaust."
Posted inLocal Voice

Ken Burns’ Holocaust series reminds us we are an anti-immigrant nation

Miriam Zimmerman by Miriam Zimmerman September 20, 2022September 21, 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
black and white: a thin older man in white papal robes gazes out a window
Posted inFilm

Documentary questions WWII-era pope’s ‘Holy Silence’

by Dan Pine October 21, 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
Sisters Marilyn and Sheila Brass, stars of their "Food Flirts" TV series
Posted inParenting

Let PBS series ‘Food Flirts’ bring your family together

by Julie Levine August 14, 2018August 14, 2018
Scarlett Johansson learning about her ancestry on “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” (Screenshot/“Finding Your Roots”)
Posted inCulture

Watching ‘Finding Your Roots,’ family learns they are related to Scarlett Johansson

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier November 3, 2017March 23, 2018
Sen. Bernie Sanders features in the season premiere of "Finding Your Roots," which airs on PBS, Oct. 3.
Posted inCulture

‘Finding Your Roots’: Bernie gets choked up about a relative who died defying Nazis

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman September 29, 2017March 23, 2018
The Anati brothers, from left, Bubi, Andrea and Emmanuel used Italian food as fuel on their quest for the cave they hid out in during the Holocaust (Photo/JTA-Tamar Tal Anati)
Posted inArt, Culture, Film, TV, TV & Film

In PBS film, Italian brothers return to cave that saved them during WWII

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman July 24, 2017March 23, 2018

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