Just about every opportunity Jews had to win Emmy awards at the 70th Annual Emmy Awards on Monday night, they won. Sometimes twice. The show was clunky, generally humorless, and typically lengthy — but the Jews, the Jews were out in full force. Let’s do this. 1.The gawky, well-meant musical opener featured Andy Samberg, funny…
Amazon’s Golden Globe-winning — and now Emmy-nominated — comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is coming back for a second season, and I couldn’t be happier. As a rabbi and pop culture vulture, you can imagine my delight when I was tapped to play “the rabbi” on the show. But alas, in a real life plot…
The dumped-but-unsinkable Mrs. Maisel heads to the Catskills and High Holiday services in a trailer for hotly anticipated second season of the hit Amazon show. The candy-coated, wise-cracking “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” sailed smoothly into Jewish diasporic hearts and minds in March 2017 and lodged there comfortably, apparently set to remain central to the American Jewish…
While the Concord may have closed twenty years ago, I recently chanced on a glimpse of what it once was to be a resort guest at the grandest of Catskills resorts, circa 1959. It all started with the flyer. I’m sure it circulated around the Upper West Side faster than word of Loehmann’s demise. …
The 2018 Emmy nominations dropped late Thursday morning. The Television Academy award show nominates, by our humble calculus, approximately 900 million people each year. Nevertheless, we have worked tirelessly to determine which people are people of the book. Here are all the Jews and Jewish projects nominated in major categories: Lead Actress in a Comedy…
I am a doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, where I am currently working on a monograph about the very first Jewish female comedian, Jean Carroll — which is an academic way of saying that I am very, very invested in the actual Jewish, female pioneer of stand-up. I wasn’t sure that “Mrs. Maisel” would do…
When I saw the ad seeking paid background/extra work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I was electrified. Am I comfortable working around atmospheric smoke? But of course! It’s how I work best! Am I comfortable wearing wool clothes? Absolutely, baby, there’s nothing I love more, especially in the dead of June. Am I comfortable receiving…
It’s Oscars weekend, and, for once, the often-predictable ceremony has the admittedly mild potential to be genuinely interesting. On the biggest night of Hollywood’s year, how will presenters, performers and award-winners address the ongoing revelations of pervasive sexual assault and harassment that began with The New York Times’s exposé on Harvey Weinstein? A surprising number…
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