Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
For Paul Newman’s 97th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Paul Newman, who would have turned 97 today, once directed a cinematic masterpiece in a Yiddish theater. So, why did he take his name off it?
She filmed the final days of her father’s life. Here’s what she wants us to know about assisted death.
“We are able to put our pets to sleep and we can’t put ourselves to sleep. The process needs to be streamlined and should be more humane”
Why some Israelis are finally confronting what happened in 1948 in a village called Tantura
Why some Israelis are finally confronting what happened in 1948 in a village called Tantura
Some Israelis claim nothing happened in Tahtura in 1948, but a new documentary offers a dark tale of what occurred during the War of Independence
Is it possible to love the world’s most ubiquitous Jewish intellectual as much as he loves himself?
Is it possible to love the world’s most ubiquitous Jewish intellectual as much as he loves himself?
Lévy’s newest globetrotting documentary, ‘The Will To See,’ is a self-aggrandizing awareness tour of the 21st Century’s humanitarian crises.
Adafina , a Sephardic Shabbat stew
Hamim or adafina: how to make sephardic sabbath stew
Why did this astonishing document of Nazi atrocities vanish for more than 50 years?
In 1945, young filmmakers Budd and Stuart Schulberg received the assignment of a lifetime — to locate original film footage of Nazi atrocities.
He was Jewish and one of the 20th century’s greatest writers — but was he a Jewish writer?
Michael Caplan’s documentary ‘Algren’ is an engaging tribute to a writer who championed the lives of hookers, hustlers and addicts.
On the border of Turkey and Syria, a Jewish family desperate to flee a rapidly-changing world
On the border of Turkey and Syria, a Jewish family desperate to flee a rapidly-changing world
Director Mano Khalil’s “Neighbours” is a cinematically stunning, deeply unsettling film that is brutal, satiric, and, at times, magical.
Lucille Ball may have prevailed over censorship, but on Dick Van Dyke’s show, it was another story
20 years after the events in ‘Being the Ricardos,’ you couldn’t show American sex lives honestly on TV. At least not on ‘The New Dick Van Dyke Show.’
Was Humphrey Bogart playing a famous Jewish gangster in this overlooked movie?
Was Humphrey Bogart playing a famous Jewish gangster in this overlooked movie?
‘All Through the Night’ was based on a story co-written by Leonard Q. Ross, better known as Leo Rosten, author of ‘The Joys of Yiddish.’
Undeniably, a great film — but is it Israeli? Or Palestinian? Or both?
The Ophir award-winning film ‘Let It Be Morning’ is already generating Oscar buzz. But categorizing it has been controversial from the start.