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Arts and Culture

Is ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 kosher to watch after Adam Brody’s genocide comments?

By YAEL BUECHLER

(JTA) — When the final two words of a television pilot are “a shiksa,” delivered with unmistakable disdain by a Jewish mother, you know you’re in for something different. 

For the past two years, “Nobody Wants This” has...

Fifty years later, Philly’s ‘Cold War’ still going on throughout the world

By JON MARKS

(JTA) — CHERRY HILL, New Jersey — More than 50 years ago, ”Chicken Little” saw all this coming. 

That’s how Lindy Snider said people responded when her father, Ed, would predict dire things happening to Jews throughout the...

Chef Alon Shaya shares the stories, resilience and recipes of World War II survivors

By RACHEL RINGLER

(JTA) – In 2015, while visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya came face-to-face with a World War II artifact that moved him deeply.

It was a red cloth triangle — cut...

In its first detailed response to ‘NAZA’ documentary, IDF claims ‘fundamental errors’

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — The IDF on Thursday issued its first detailed response to “NAZA” after viewing the full documentary alleging Israeli forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians in the Gaza war, accusing the filmmakers of making fundamental errors...

Jewish star Adam Brody calls Israeli actions in Gaza ‘genocide’

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — Adam Brody, who stars as a rabbi in the Netflix rom-com series “Nobody Wants This,” for the first time publicly shared his view that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

“Put me down as thinking...

More than 350 cultural figures slam Spanish festival for canceling a Jewish novelist for her Israel views

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — MADRID — More than 350 writers and other cultural figures have signed a petition defending the author Ariana Harwicz, who was disinvited from a literary festival in Spain over her support for Israel. 

The Jewish-Argentinian...

‘Checkout’ and ‘Fauda’ test the appetite for Israeli spy stories after Oct. 7

By STEWART AIN

(JTA) — Is there still an appetite for Israeli spy stories?

That is one question being tested by two different productions arriving in the United States this month: “Checkout,” a dark Israeli comedy about an aging Mossad...

Netanyahu backs legislation that would strip ‘NAZA’ makers of citizenship

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would advance legislation allowing Israel to revoke the citizenship of people who defame soldiers or the state abroad, citing “NAZA,” the prize-winning documentary accusing the military of...

After outcry, Texas lieutenant governor says schools should teach Holocaust books ‘Night,’ ‘Anne Frank’

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The lieutenant governor of Texas says his recent call for the state’s public schools to remove “over 2,000 titles” of “dirty, filthy and vulgar books” was not meant to include books about the Holocaust.

Dan Patrick’s...

Israeli army weighs legal action against NAZA film makers amid calls to revoke their citizenship

By DEBORAH DANAN

(JTA) — The Israeli army chief of staff on Monday ordered the military to examine possible legal action over “NAZA,” a documentary alleging that Israeli forces knowingly killed large numbers of civilians in Gaza.

The 80-minute documentary by...