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Culture ‘Shtisel’ star Sasson Gabay is happy to be back playing a complex haredi Orthodox Jew in ‘Kugel’
The Iraqi-born actor, who plays the Yiddish-speaking Nuhem, has reprised the role for a prequel series titled 'Kugel'
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Culture The only good Jews in this hit Christian TV show are the ones who follow Jesus
'The Chosen' has long been obsessed with Jewish practice — but Jewish people don't come off well in its retelling
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Film & TV In this Jewish family, everybody needs therapy — especially the therapists themselves
The Argentinean series 'Family Therapy' features a pair or married therapists, who face emotional challenges of their own
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Culture What was Barbra Streisand’s autobiography doing in ‘The White Lotus’?
Babs' 992-page memoir speaks volumes about the character reading it.
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Film & TV Is ‘Kugel,’ the prequel to ‘Shtisel,’ an antisemite’s dream?
The show follows a grifting Haredi Jew — but maybe that isn't such a bad thing
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Film & TV In a transcendent new TV series, a memorable group of misfits struggles on the margins of Tel Aviv
'Just for Today,' made by a co-creator of 'In Treatment,' is set at an Israeli Halfway house
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Culture King David’s story gets the ‘Game of Thrones’ treatment
Amazon Prime's new series 'The House of David' draws out the palace intrigue of ancient Israel
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Film & TV The hero of the Netflix series ‘Mo’ faces struggles that might seem familiar to Sholem Aleichem
In the second and final season of his hit Netflix comedy, Mo Amer takes a bow — and a stand
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