Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward As ‘My Unorthodox Life’ Season 2 films, real divorce and drama hit the Haart family
(JTA) — In the first season of Netflix’s “My Unorthodox Life,” Julia Haart had a loving husband, a thriving career and a family that seemed to deftly navigate varying levels of Jewish observance. Season 2 will tell a different story. Over the last 48 hours, Haart was fired from Elite World Group, the fashion company where…
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Fast Forward Emma Saltzberg didn’t expect to win on ‘Jeopardy!’ — but criticism of her Israel activism came as no surprise
(JTA) — Emma Saltzberg knew she might invite criticism by competing on “Jeopardy!” From her years of experience in progressive Jewish groups, including IfNotNow, a group founded in 2014 to galvanize American Jews to oppose Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, she knew that her appearance on one of the most popular TV shows in the United…
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Fast Forward In HBO’s ‘And Just Like That’ finale, a ‘they mitzvah’ challenges Jewish traditions
(JTA) — Spoiler alert: This story contains details from “Seeing the Light,” the season finale of HBO’s “And Just Like That,” which first aired Feb. 3, 2022. (JTA) — The previews for the season finale of “And Just Like That,” the “Sex and the City” reboot airing on HBO, suggested that viewers would get to see…
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Fast Forward ABC suspends ‘The View’ co-host Whoopi Goldberg over Holocaust comments that ignited a firestorm
(JTA) — ABC has suspended Whoopi Goldberg from her role as a co-host of a morning TV talk show for two weeks amid criticism of Goldberg’s characterization of the Holocaust. Goldberg will take two weeks off from the show, ABC President Kim Goodwin announced in a statement Tuesday evening, hours after a leading Jewish organization…
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Fast Forward Tennessee school board removes ‘Maus,’ iconic Holocaust novel, from its curriculum
(JTA) — A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove “Maus,” Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about his father’s Holocaust experience, from its curriculum after board members raised objections about curse words, nude drawings and “not wise or healthy” content within it. Spiegelman, who won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for the book, told CNBC that the…
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Fast Forward As Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis unfolded, Jews turned to prayers designed for moments of danger
(JTA) — Jews who pray according to traditional liturgy each morning recite a line that is usually symbolic: “Blessed are you, God, who frees the captive.” On Saturday that line became painfully meaningful as a number of Jewish worshippers were taken hostage during Shabbat services at their Texas synagogue. And as the afternoon stretched into…
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Fast Forward 33 years after classic bar mitzvah episode, revamped ‘Wonder Years’ revisits the ritual
(JTA) — Paul Pfeiffer’s bar mitzvah made Jewish television history when “The Wonder Years” devoted an episode to it in 1989. Pfeiffer, played by a Jewish actor named Josh Saviano, was the best friend of the show’s main character, Kevin Arnold, also played by a Jewish actor — Fred Savage — but who was not…
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Fast Forward What is rabbi?’: Angela Buchdahl becomes a ‘Jeopardy!’ clue
(JTA) — Few rabbis appear before more people than Angela Buchdahl, the senior rabbi of New York City’s Central Synagogue. But Buchdahl may have become one of the most recognizable rabbis ever after her name — and face — appeared as a clue on “Jeopardy!” Wednesday night. The cameo came toward the end of the…
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