Jewish & Israeli Movies and Television Shows
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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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.”
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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.