Ideas ‘My Unorthodox Life’ joins a long history of depicting, and distorting, Orthodox Jews on stage and screen Reality shows feed the assumptions that viewers are meant to hold about Orthodoxy, even when no Orthodox Jew appears on screen.
Prominent Jewish groups and senator rally behind a Muslim Biden nominee attacked by Republicans Dilawar Syed is in line to be the most senior Muslim official in U.S. history. One Jewish group called the attacks on him “unamerican.”
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Global ‘All the cliches on the table’: Germany’s ‘Friday Night Jews’ talk show uses humor to familiarize Germans with Jewish culture
Global Filmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now they want to preserve it as a museum.
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