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Director of Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis’ fears world on precipice of World...

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oe Berlinger says he was troubled when he read reports of a 2018 study from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which showed one in 10 millennial Americans thought that Jews were...
Israeli actor Idan Amedi talks to reporters upon being released from Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Jan. 25, 2024. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS.

‘Fauda’ star Idan Amedi recounts Gaza blast

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Israeli actor-singer-songwriter Idan Amedi, best known for starring in the hit Netflix show "Fauda," recounted to reporters on Thursday his experience fighting in Gaza and the blast that had him hospitalized for over two weeks. “We...
Actor Idan Amedi (right) with IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. Credit: IDF.

‘Fauda’ star Idan Amedi to be released from hospital

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Israeli actor Idan Amedi, best known for his role in the Netflix hit show "Fauda," will be released from hospital on Tuesday, according to a statement issued on his behalf that was shared with...
Aleeza Ben Shalom. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish matchmaker, of Netflix fame, to host Chicago singles event on Labor Day

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When one matchmaker declined Netflix’s offer to host the eight-part series “Jewish Matchmaking,” she recommended a friend, Aleeza Ben Shalom. It was a different kind of bashert in action, and it proved a good match. Ben Shalom,...
American Jewish composer Leonard Bernstein seated at piano, making annotations to a musical score, 1955. Credit: Al Ravenna, World Telegram Staff Photographer via Wikimedia Commons.

Leonard Bernstein Netflix film criticized over ‘Jewface’

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In lush black and white, a man and woman sit back-to-back in a park, playing a guessing game together, dreaming that they can communicate telepathically if they just try hard enough. The scene cuts...
Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star and producer of the Netflix film “Red Notice.” Source: Screenshot.

Ahead of new Netflix show, Gal Gadot shares thoughts on her career

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Gal Gadot's first Hollywood audition was for the role of a James Bond girl in "Quantum of Solace," alongside Daniel Craig. Although Gadot did not get the role, now, a decade and a half...
The 2015 exhibit “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Friends: The Art of Bernard Waber” at Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History. Credit: Menachem Wecker.

‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,’ new to Netflix, offers no glimpse of character’s ‘Jewish soul’

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Crocodiles are not kosher. But the much-beloved protagonist—initially misunderstood as a villain—of Bernard Waber’s children’s books “The House on East 88th Street” and “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is arguably Jewish. Waber, who wrote and illustrated the...
A scene from “Image of Victory,” a 2021 Israeli film to be released on Netflix on July 15, 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli film ‘Image of Victory’ to be released on Netflix

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Inspired by true events in 1948, Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim on the Israeli-Egyptian border. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid,...
Award-winning documentary film director and writer Richard Trank in Eastern Europe with his crew on the set of “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to be released on July 13 on Netflix. Credit: Moriah Films.

Always the optimist: Netflix film on Shimon Peres spotlights political, emotional resilience

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A children’s book by Ruth Krauss called The Carrot Seed, first published in 1945, is a little read that packs a big punch. In it, the main character, a little boy who doesn’t even have...
Julia Haart, star of the Netflix reality television show “My Unorthodox Life.” Credit: American Jewish University.

‘My Unorthodox Life’ star Julia Haart shares her Jewish journey

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“Is feminism your new religion?” “It’s my purpose in life.” Such was an exchange between Julia Haart, star of the hit Netflix reality television show “My Unorthodox Life,” and American Jewish University (AJU) Rabbi Sherre Hirsch...