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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

“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...

It was basically the complete opposite of what they expected. A group of German Jews who fled Hitler and Nazi Germany, and who signed up to be American soldiers, wanted to exact revenge. Instead, they...