Hollywood Outlier: American Actor Elliott Gould Focuses the Camera on Real Life
Rochel Grosz | JNS
It’s difficult to imagine a face like Elliott Gould’s becoming a matinee idol today. It is angular and brooding, with eyes...
‘The Jews’ Fight Is My Fight,’ Dr. Phil Tells JNS
Vita Fellig
The television host Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, has received death threats, been swatted repeatedly and faced an onslaught of hate mail...
Nathan Fielder Says Paramount Plus Pulled His TV Episode on Holocaust Awareness After Oct....
He’s known for a prankish public persona laced with several layers of irony. But Jewish comedian Nathan Fielder has always insisted he’s sincere about...
‘Shtisel’ Star Sasson Gabay Is Happy to Be Back Playing a Complex Haredi Orthodox...
Gabe Friedman | JTA
“I’m preparing a tea so we can talk with leisure,” Sasson Gabay says over the phone from Israel.
The Israeli film and...
How a Real-Life Rabbi Coached Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’ About Making Interfaith Relationships Realistic
Shira Li Bartov | JTA.org
“Nobody Wants This,” a rom-com Netflix series starring Adam Brody as a charming Los Angeles rabbi who falls for a...
A ‘Bachelorette’ Contestant Is the Great-great-grandson of the Last Chief Rabbi of Kovno
Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA.org
Jeremy Simon, a New York City real estate investor, was thinking of a rabbi who died during the Holocaust as he...
Mila Kunis tears up in multifaceted talk ranging from family to films
Jewish actress Mila Kunis has charmed millions of fans around the world, but did she charm her way into America?
After a screening of her...
‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ shows its grit
Review
By Jarrad Saffren
It’s hard to do what you actually want to do in life.
It’s much easier to sell out for money, to conform to...
Susie Essman, TV’s most outrageous Jewish mother, talks ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
By Andrew Lapin
On the wall of Susie Essman’s powder room hangs a giant portrait of herself.
Actually, the portrait is of Susie Green, Essman’s beloved,...
As Jon Stewart returns to TV, here’s a look back at his most Jewish...
By Stephen Silver
After a hiatus of more than six years that followed his departure from “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart returned to regular series...