He created the most Jewish of superheroes — but how Jewish was he really?
Born 100 years ago to immigrants from Romania, Stan Lee went on to become one of the most influential artists of the 20th century
Born 100 years ago to immigrants from Romania, Stan Lee went on to become one of the most influential artists of the 20th century
Everytime Spider-Man flirts with the fickle multiverse he encounters a couple of constants. The first is that a version of Spider-Man exists in every reality. The second is that Jews do too. Even, it would seem, the Jews who write for this very Jewish paper. In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Jews are everywhere. As David…
When “Transparent,” Amazon’s sharp, candy-colored TV show, premiered in 2014, it was a landmark of representation and storytelling for transgender people. You know, just like “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” The most recent entry to the “Spider” canon has earned over one billion dollars — it’s the most successful of the “Spider-Man” movies, and Sony’s highest-grossing…
With great power comes great — well, in this case, financial power. The partnership between Marvel, a subsidiary of Disney, and Sony Pictures has collapsed, Deadline reports. That relationship was responsible for the appearance of Tom Holland’s fresh-faced, ludicrously charming child Spider-Man in a handful of Marvel Universe movies, starting with 2016’s “Captain America: Civil…
Playstation 4’s “Spider-Man” video game is known for its meticulous, open-world recreation of New York City — right down to the pedestrians. And as a painstaking facsimile, the game’s locales come complete with Orthodox Jews wearing kippot and wide-brimmed hats. But if you find yourself playing the game on Shabbat, you may notice that these…
(JTA) — It sounds like a teenager’s dream: Could watching superhero movies have actual health benefits? Two Israeli researchers think so. They found that exposing people to short clips of “Spider-Man” and “Ant-Man” films reduced their phobias of spiders and ants. Menachem Ben-Ezra from the School of Social Work at Ariel University and Yaakov Hoffman…
“Spider-Man,” the story that unspools endlessly like silk from a spider’s internal glands, has released a teaser trailer for its newest installment, “Spider-Man: Far From Home.” And that teaser stars — for a thrilling six seconds — Jake Gyllenhaal. This iteration of the crime-fighting arachnid is the lithesome Brit Tom Holland, who represents Marvel’s first…
The 2019 Golden Globes began with a Jewish co-host examining the fine line between Jewish comedy and internalized anti-Semitism. Then, a Jewish Hollywood A-lister shouted the Yiddish phrase for “old s*****r.” 1.Andy Samberg represented our people alongside the godly Sandra Oh. Samberg snuck some of his typically understated pitch-black humor into the somewhat tepid awards,…
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