Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
What if ‘Call Me By Your Name’ was French? (And less Jewish)
“Summer of 85” has a lot of “Call Me By Your Name” in its DNA — but little of what made that film great.
‘Loki’ is Kafkaesque in a way we don’t usually see
Kafka would like it for this reason: it’s funny.
The Tony-winning drama of the Oslo Accords is now a film
J.T. Rogers and Bartlett Sher always knew their history play had a lot to teach us today. But they never wanted it to be quite this relevant.
An Oscar winner gives new life to a classic story of exile
“I never really considered ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ to be only a children’s movie,” Link said.
Recipe: Forverts’ “Baba Au Rhum” for Father’s Day
A throwback recipe for rum cake from a treasured Forverts columnist, originally published in 1979.
The Forward’s 2021 Oscars Quiz
How well do you know the Oscars, both past and present?
WATCH: An exclusive trailer for ‘Upheaval,’ the story of Menachem Begin
“Upheaval” by director Jonathan Gruber unearths the complicated legacy of Menachem Begin.
In this experimental drone film, ‘The Big Lebowski’s Jesus rolls again
He’s not played by John Turturro, but we’re pretty sure it’s him.
Returning to Poland, chasing ghosts and a lost painting
The documentary “Still Life in Lodz” focuses on a woman’s return to her childhood home in Lodz.
Did Art Buchwald come up with ‘Coming to America?’
Art Buchwald once pitched Paramount a movie that sounds an awful lot like the plot of “Coming to America.”
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Why Heschel’s example was the exception, not the rule
Far too often, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is used to justify an attitude he never held: complacency.
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