Jewish characters on television are often written as symbols — of suffering, politics or cultural anxiety. What sets HBO’s medical drama The Pitt apart is that its Jewish lead physician, Dr. Michael ...

San Diego viewers are gaining greater access to Jewish Life TV — created by Phil Blazer, the late founder of a precursor to San Diego Jewish Times. The 24-hour network’s offerings include “Servant of ...

2020 and 2021 will likely not be remembered as the most enjoyable years in American history, but if 2022 turns out to also be a dud, at least there will still be lots of fresh reading and viewing ...

TV and film have long excelled at processing Jewish trauma. But as ‘Nobody Wants This’ demonstrates, there’s also another way. By Rachel Israel One of the essential movies of my coming of age was ...

My father was Catholic, my mother is Jewish. That means I was always Jewish, technically and culturally. In practice, as a kid I went to Catholic church; when I became a good teenage atheist, I ...

(JTA) — Two weeks ago, Ariel Elias, then a little-known standup comedian performing at a club in New Jersey, had a beer thrown at her head from a group of Trump-supporting hecklers who discovered she ...

Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies-including All in the Family– that confronted social commentary head on–died on Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the age of 101. Back in 2015, when Lear made ...