Culture
Mrs. Maisel — what’s the legacy?
JTAJun 01, 2023
After five seasons, 20 Emmy awards and plenty of Jewish jokes, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” airs its final episode on Friday, June 2.
‘The Guttenberg Bible’
JTAMay 25, 2023
By Stephen Silver NEW YORK — Actor Steve Guttenberg has had the kind of career that put him in touch with nearly every trend in Hollywood. There were prestige films...
‘Oppenheimer’ explores birth of the A bomb
JTAMay 18, 2023
“Oppenheimer,” the Christopher Nolan biopic about the Jewish nuclear physicist who developed the atomic bomb, will include another familiar Jewish face when it opens...
Harry Belafonte dies at 96
JTAMay 04, 2023
Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, who once boasted of being “the most popular Jew in America” because of his rendition of Hava Nagila, died...
First date turned into a sweet dream
Israel21cMay 04, 2023
Daniel Bareket only stopped eating animal products after he moved to Tel Aviv. That he and his future wife would one day develop award-winning vegan chocolate was far...
‘An American Tail’ comes to the stage
JTAApr 27, 2023
Itamar Moses was 10 years old when he watched “An American Tail” at his Jewish day school in California. He was struck by the 1986 film, an animated musical about a...
‘Labyrinth of Peace’ challenges Swiss neutrality
JTAApr 20, 2023
It’s Switzerland in 1945 and the war has just ended. A group of deeply traumatized, ragged-looking Jewish teenagers recently liberated from Buchenwald have been sent...
The story behind ‘Transatlantic’
JTAApr 13, 2023
The rescue mission of Varian Fry, which went largely unrecognized during his life, is the subject of Netflix’s new drama “Transatlantic,” launched last week from...
Deep dive into Rocky
JTAMar 23, 2023
Paul Farber was shocked when he first watched “Rocky” and saw a Star of David on the grave of Rocky Balboa’s coach, Mickey Goldmill.
Talking to Tevye . . . or at least the man playing him
Steve MarkMar 16, 2023
Jonathan Hashmonay, 29, plays the lead character Tevye in the Broadway stage tour of “Fiddler on the Roof” in Denver at the Buell Theatre, March 14-19.
