Happy Emmys day, everybody! We’re celebrating by counting down five of our favorite Jewish moments (“Transparent” dominated our list a little bit…no surprises there). 1) Kicking off the night in style, Amy Schumer answered the “what are you wearing” question in the best way possible. Who are you wearing? @amyschumer: “Vivian Westwood, Tom Ford shoes…
Everyone was talking about diversity at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Saturday night, with Oscar’s shutout of black actors. But the SAGs had their own diversity issue for the Jews: Other than Jeffrey Tambor, there was a dearth of tribe members in both winners and nominees. Tambor won for best comedy series actor for playing…
The GLAAD Awards nominees are here and the Jews have a strong presence in the television and music categories. Here are four things you need to know about the 27th edition of the awards, which recognizes LGBT representations in the media. In the Outstanding Music Artist category, the multitalented Australian Troye Sivan is nominated. Sivan,…
Last night’s Golden Globes was perhaps the Jewiest in recent memory and as the fashion police are out in full force today, we thought we’d do a roundup of the best Jewish moments of the night. Here are our favorites, for better or for worse, moments in no particular order: • Aziz Ansari stole the…
There are more than a few songs that pay homage to the Ashkenazi Jewish mother. They’re schmaltzy, but if you’ve half a brain and any measure of experience, you can taste the irony like the tang in Canter’s coleslaw. Two of my favorites: “A Yiddishe mame, is there anything better in the world […] Oy…
When we last left “Transparent’”s Pfefferman clan, they were scavenging the leftovers – chopped liver, coleslaw and maybe some whitefish salad– after a shiva. Now, at the start of the show’s second season — the first episode of which aired early on Amazon this week — we rejoin them at a wedding. The two events,…
(JTA) — Writer and director Jill Soloway grew up in what she calls a “somewhat normalish, upper middle class Jewish household” in Chicago. Her mom was a public relations consultant (she worked for Mayor Jane Byrne) and her dad a psychiatrist. But she always sensed that “something was a little off,” she tells JTA in a…
Jill Soloway, 50, is no new- comer to the entertainment industry. From 2002 to 2005 the Chicago-born director and screenwriter wrote and later co-executive produced the acclaimed HBO series “Six Feet Under.” She wrote and directed the 2013 movie “Afternoon Delight,” about an unhappy mother who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old sex…
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