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‘The Shrink Next Door,’ a dark Jewish-themed podcast, is becoming a TV show with Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd

June 18, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — “The Shrink Next Door,” a 2019 reported podcast about a Jewish psychiatrist on the Upper West Side of Manhattan who takes control of the life of one of his Jewish patients, is being made into a limited TV series. And it’s starring two comedy stars who last collaborated on “Anchorman 2: The Legend […]

A Black and Jewish Bible scholar will lead Reconstructionist rabbinical school, in a first for American Jewish movements

June 18, 2021Sara Wood

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7 events that celebrate Juneteenth through a Jewish lens

June 17, 2021Mark Hershlag

This article originally appeared on Kveller. This Saturday, June 19, marks the first time that Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. The date — a portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth” — marks the day in 1865 in which enslaved people in Texas were informed of the Emancipation Proclamation, and thus their […]

Meet the Orthodox mom competing on ‘American Ninja Warrior’

June 16, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on Kveller. If you’re in need of inspiration today, look no further than Orthodox mom of four Liba Yoffe, who is competing in the current season of “American Ninja Warrior.” Yoffe, 35, is the apparently first Orthodox Jewish woman to participate in the popular fitness competition — now in its 13th season […]

The holiness of returning to summer camp

June 16, 2021Neta-Lee Zellweger

This article originally appeared on Alma. I am a camp person through and through. Camp has always been my happy place. For a long time it was the only place I felt genuinely Jewish. I grew up being the only Jew most people in my hometown knew, and switched synagogues several times. I never felt […]

Shira Haas gives life to a devastating illness in the decorated Israeli film ‘Asia’

June 9, 2021Arsen Mayer

(JTA) — Shira Haas, the Israeli actress who vaulted into superstardom with her roles in the TV series “Shtisel” and “Unorthodox,” has a track record of playing multifaceted characters. Nonetheless, she faced unprecedented challenges when making the new film “Asia,” which dominated last year’s Ophir Awards (the Israeli equivalent to the Oscars) and is seeing […]

Writers remove references to Anne Frank and Israel from their novels following social media complaints

June 9, 2021Sara Wood

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The new film ‘Sublet’ explores the US-Israel identity divide from a queer lens

June 9, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — Eytan Fox’s new film “Sublet” opens with a slow fade-up on travel photographs of Israel: red rocks in the desert, a young woman smiling with the mud of the Dead Sea on her face, two paddleboarders on clear turquoise water. As the image comes into focus, it becomes clear that we’re actually looking […]

42 Jewish delis, 1 motorcycle: The Great American Deli Schlep aims to raise awareness about hunger

June 9, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — Motorcyclist Steve Goode is on the way to Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But on a recent phone call from a hotel room, he doesn’t know exactly where he is. “Indiana, in … what the hell town am I in?” he says with a laugh. Turns out he’s in Richmond, Indiana, a […]

Lin-Manuel Miranda and my German-Jewish grandma both made ‘the Heights’ what it is

June 7, 2021Sara Wood

(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Several years before skyrocketing to superstardom with “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the exuberant Broadway musical “In the Heights.” In the last act of the stage production, a salsa-flavored celebration of the Latino community of Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, a sign for “Rosario’s Car […]