The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish
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Is ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ the first good bar/bat mitzvah movie?
A new dramedy starring Dakota Johnson tells the story of a “motivational dancer” for bar/bat mitzvah parties.
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A lesbian Orthodox horror movie and other Jewish highlights of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival
A Leonard Cohen documentary, an Israeli comedy and a chat between Jewish comedy writers are among the festival’s offerings.
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British poet Siegfried Sassoon ignored his Jewish heritage. A new biopic does the same.
A conscientious objector to WWI, Sassoon became an activist through his poetry – while living as a closeted gay man.
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In a stunning new film, a portrait of what it means to be Israeli today
Yael Reuveny's 'Promised Lands' is a documentary filled with memorable images and vexing contradictions
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Why is the new Leonard Bernstein Netflix movie code-named Rybernia?
The production alias of the biopic shows that writer-director-star Bradley Cooper did his research
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Remembering Ray Liotta’s most Jewish scene
Liotta wasn't Jewish, but he seemed to understand Jews
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Four decades later, a Jewish iconoclast’s searing film gets its debut
94-year-old Michael Roemer’s 1984 ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ confronts the themes that have preoccupied him throughout his career
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New York Voices In a new exhibit on Eldridge Street, an artist dreams of kosher hot dogs
Jewish folk artist Steve Marcus brings his winning weiner drawings to the East Village
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The greatest Jewish superhero on television isn’t who you think it is
Moon Knight’s superpowers pale in comparison to the skills of a stand-up comedian
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How Orna Guralnik went from the Israeli army to ‘Couples Therapy’ stardom
“I’ve become something,” she said. “I don’t know what to call it, but people write to me a lot, from all over the world.”
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