Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
The 37 unknown roles of Peter Sellers
Best known as Inspector Clouseau and Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers tried on a menagerie of roles in his lifetime.
‘Unorthodox’ takes a story of spiritual exodus to uncharted territory
The show is a vibrant portrait of a woman mid-transition — a coming of age story for a woman made to grow up too soon.
What ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ taught me about being Jewish
In 100 episodes, David has shown the world a prime example of the bulk of American Jewry’s ambivalent relationship with itself.
Introducing Marcel Marceau, resistance fighter — starring Jesse Eisenberg
“Marceau had an agility and grace which I don’t have,” said Jesse Eisenberg who plays the legendary mime in the new film “Resistance.”
Jewish restaurants and community members band together to send food to COVID hospital workers
“We’re not making a margin on this; we’re doing it to help people.”
‘The Plot Against America’: How the Forward reported the transformation of Charles A. Lindbergh
It was on our pages that many American Jews followed Charles Lindbergh’s transformation from hero to anti-Semitic avatar.
David Simon on ‘The Plot Against America’ and our crisis of democracy
“My father never let a Passover go by without delivering the line about ‘Freedom can never be entirely won, but it can be lost.’”
When Max von Sydow entertained Holocaust survivors
Actor Max von Sydow was not Jewish or German, and yet, through much of his English-language film career he played Holocaust survivors or Nazis.
Spock’s Jewish-Vulcan gesture is the way we should greet each other today
As our planet is in the grips of a deadly virus, in need of a way to greet each other without spreading infection, let’s all make that V-shaped sign.
Diagnosing Anti-Semitism as a virulent disease
In France, Great Britain, Hungary and America, filmmaker Andrew Goldberg finds four mutations of anti-Semitism.
Tony Randall at 100 — Once a Rosenberg, always a Rosenberg
A persistent spoofing of the search for roots of psychic trouble was at the core of Randall’s career success.
