Why was 2022 the year TV turned really, really Jewish?
Jews have always had a presence on the small screen. But this year, their stories took on new nuance
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The Schmooze Timothée Chalamet And Steve Carrell’s Upcoming Movie Is Unbearably Beautiful
David Sheff, journalist for The New York Times, author of best-selling memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction,” and a descendant of Russian Jews, will see his memoir brought to life in upcoming film “Beautiful Boy.” The film, which will star Timothée Chalamet (a recently famous member of our tribe) and Steve…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Israeli Music for Syrian Protestors; The Shame of Playing Shylock
The Independent takes a look at Habonim, the Socialist Zionist youth group that was once home to Mike Leigh, David Baddiel and Sacha Baron Cohen. The Brooklyn Rail revisits the work of Russian Jewish filmmaker Dziga Vertov, on the occasion of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Israeli singer Amir Benayoun (profiled in…
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The Schmooze The Ones That Missed the Cut
Earlier this week, Saul Austerlitz wrote about his recent author tour and five not-as-terrible-as-you-think movies. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish Learning’s Author Blog series. For more information on the series, please visit: One of the trickiest aspects of writing…
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