Sunday Features

Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in pop culture, new analysis argues

A research firm analyzed nearly 200 movies and TV shows hoping to change the conversation around Jewish poverty.

The best villains played by Jewish actors

A survey in tribute to two late Jewish actors and their iconically sinister characters.

A woman holding a trophy at a film festival

A Polish director with Jewish heritage made a movie about the migrant crisis. The government compared it to Nazi propaganda.

An association for European filmmakers came to Holland’s defense, noting that she is the daughter of an officer involved in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

These queer newlyweds are modeling Jewish joy for LGBTQ youth

How bathroom graffiti inspired this Jewish comedian and singer

Andy Samberg plays a famous Jewish WWII photographer in upcoming biopic

A Talmudic tale gets a 12th-century Chinese twist in children’s book aimed at diverse Jewish readers

What’s Jewish about the jam band Phish? Many things, according to a new book.

The co-creator of ‘Shtisel’ identifies as haredi Orthodox again

New Yorkers are buzzing about local honey this Rosh Hashanah

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