Jeffrey Tambor, the star of the award-winning hit TV show “Transparent,” announced he is leaving the show after being accused by two women of sexual misconduct, the New York Times reported. Tambor denies the accusations, brought by a co-star and a former assistant. “I’ve already made clear my deep regret if any action of mine…
When I was eighteen years old, I declared myself a ‘citizen of the world’. I was the classic secular Jewish teenager, raised in suburban Skokie, Illinois, and after I spent a semester in Jerusalem (more at home hanging in the Arab quarter than anywhere else), I found myself rejecting the ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ tropes….
The TV Trailblazer Who Refuses To Conform Jill Soloway writes, produces and directs not one but two television series, both critically successful and reflective of Soloway’s own queer, feminist ethos. “Transparent,” the offbeat, profoundly Jewish Amazon series that made Soloway a multiple Emmy winner and a household name among television buffs, has recently been renewed…
Jill Soloway’s groundbreaking “Transparent” is a masterpiece in an era when being superlative is, oddly, the rule. With television like “Transparent” it is incumbent upon the audience to accept our mantle as participants in high art and ignore fears about venerating work that is in the same artistic genre as the new “Big Bang Theory”…
The oddest moment of my Birthright trip occurred during a trip to Har Hertzl, Israel’s national cemetery. After encouraging us to lay stones on the graves of Meir and Rabin, our guide paused for his main performance at the grave of Max Steinberg, the lone American soldier who was moved to make aliya and serve…
Just when you thought “Transparent” couldn’t get any more Jewish, the writers’ room books tickets to Israel for the entire Pfefferman family. The woefully dysfunctional and infinitely lovable clan will be touching down in the Motherland this season to get yet further in touch with their roots. The trailer, released Friday morning, teases the Pfefferman’s…
(JTA) — On Thursday, the Television Academy announced the nominees for the coveted Primetime Emmy Awards. Here are the acting candidates with Jewish ancestry. The awards for TV excellence will be presented Sept. 8 on CBS. Lead actress, drama series Evan Rachel Wood is being considered for her portrayal of Dolores Abernathy, an android character in the sci-fi…
In a Guardian profile of “Transparent” creator and “I Love Dick” series co-creator Jill Soloway, Hadley Freeman writes that Soloway “now identifies as a gender non-conforming queer person, who prefers to be referenced with gender-neutral pronouns (they/them/their).” The article accompanying Soloway’s (fascinating) recent Fresh Air interview states that Soloway “identifies as genderqueer”; in interviews, Soloway…
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