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
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Culture What Yiddish (and the Forward) are doing in the new ‘Spider-Man’
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…
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Life First Trans Actor In A Marvel Movie Talks ‘Spider-Man,’ Judaism, And The Importance Of Representation
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…
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The Schmooze Why Did Marvel And Sony’s ‘Spider-Man’ Partnership Collapse?
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…
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Fast Forward Yes, Orthodox Jews In This ‘Spider-Man’ Video Game Really Do Disappear On Shabbat
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…
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Fast Forward Watching ‘Spider-Man’ Can Decrease Spider Phobia, Israeli Researchers Find
(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…
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The Schmooze Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Spider-Man’ Villain Revealed
“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…
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The Schmooze 23 Jewish Moments At The 2019 Golden Globes
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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