By MOLLY YEH
This slow-cooked brisket is featured on season 4 of Molly Yeh’s Food Network show “Girl Meets Farm,” which captures her life on a sugar beet farm. Flavored with apple cider and maple syrup, it embraces Rosh Hashanah food traditions and, best of all, can be enjoyed at...
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(JTA) — Alex Borstein of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” recalled her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s courage in defying the Nazis at the Emmy Awards.
Borstein, who won the best supporting actress award for her portrayal of Midge Maisel’s manager Susie Myerson, dedicated her award on Sunday night to her grandmother and...
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(JTA) — Popular Jewish actress Mayim Bialik will write and direct a feature film based on her own experiences.
The comedy-drama titled “As Sick As They Made Us,” which will deal with mental illness, will be Bialik’s screenwriting and directing debut. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood.
The...
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(JTA) — Actor Jonah Hill is engaged to his girlfriend of one year, Gianna Santos.
The news was first reported last week by Page Six, a day after reports that Hill, 35, had purchased a 3,100-square-foot home in Santa Monica, California for $6.77 million.
Hill, who has twice been nominated...
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(JTA) — Scarlett Johansson threw her support behind Woody Allen, who has been accused of sexual abuse. “I love Woody,” the Jewish actress told the Hollywood Reporter in an article published Wednesday. “I believe him, and I would work with him anytime.”
In 1992, Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow accused him...
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(JTA) — Theater folk in England are debating a recent revival of the musical “Falsettos,” asking whether non-Jews should be playing its Jewish characters. In an open letter, critics of the religion-blind casting complain that non-Jewish actors can at best portray only a “secondary understanding” of Jewish mannerisms but have...
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(JTA) — Woody Allen’s latest film is set to open at a French film festival, but it currently does not have a U.S. release scheduled.
Allen’s “A Rainy Day in New York,” which features Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning, was first planned to be produced and released by Amazon Studios....
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(JTA) — It’s official: Gal Gadot will portray Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr in a Showtime limited series.
The cable network made the announcement on Friday.
Gadot had been rumored as the leading candidate for the role for about a year.
The Israeli actress and her husband, Yaron Varsano,...
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By JULIA METRAUX
As a former theater kid, “Glee” was my favorite show in my adolescent years and — admittedly — I still listen to its covers of classics and newer pop songs to this day. So as someone who now binge-watches Netflix to my heart’s content, I was very happy...
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By SUSAN BAROCAS
When my 7-year-old son and I traveled to Budapest in 2002, we arrived at my friend Katalin’s flat at 11 a.m. It was already over 90 degrees F. and there was no air conditioning. We could barely make it up the five flights after some 30 hours...
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