Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
In Tel Aviv, racial privilege gets a second look
“The story of ‘White Eye’ actually happened to me,” said Shushan. “I had to make a film about it.”
Forget ‘Cruella,’ meet young Fruma-Sarah. The Jewish character origin stories you definitely don’t need.
Look upon these works and despair.
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Our big idea for how Steven Spielberg should spend his Genesis Prize money
The Genesis Prize Foundation noted his “extraordinary work to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and prevent future genocides through film.”
For Paul Newman’s 96th birthday, his lost cinematic masterpiece
Paul Newman, who would have turned 95 today, once directed a cinematic masterpiece in a Yiddish theater. So, why did he take his name off it?
In one of Norway’s first Holocaust films, a fairy tale free of consequence
What could have been an opportunity for an underexamined period in Norway’s past is squandered by empty whimsy.
Can we separate Roman Polanski’s excellent new film from its director’s contemptible past?
‘An Officer and a Spy,’ Roman Polanski’s movie about the Dreyfus Affair, is spare, modern and steeped in controversy
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How ‘Big Mouth’ became bigger than me
For a time, I was the show’s ideal viewer. Now, I am ready to let go.
Remembering Kirk Douglas — a movie legend like no other
Douglas was born Issur Danielovich to two illiterate Russian Jewish immigrant parents, in Amsterdam, New York,
Can eyewitness footage from the West Bank change minds about the occupation? Not hers
Film is only what the filmmaker shows and what a viewer takes away from it. It’s never free from a point of view.
Can a drama about the Yom Kippur War heal a divided Israel?
“We have a lot of forgotten wars,” said series co-creator Ron Leshem, “but this was the worst.”