Showing 1 - 14 of 14 articles tagged "Jews and TV"

• Posted Saturday 1/08/22 at 3:11AM EST

  Star Trek exhibition explores its Jewish roots

  Adam Nimoy, Leonard Nimoy's son, has helped Los Angeles' Skirball Center, a Jewish cultural center known mostly for its explorations of...

• Posted Saturday 10/30/21 at 5:41AM EDT

  Not everybody is happy with Netflix's obsession with Orthodox Jews

  From Shtisel to Unorthodox to My Unorthodox Life, these are boom times for stories on Netflix about ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi,...

• Posted Wednesday 10/06/21 at 1:25PM EDT

  Tony Shalhoub slams Sarah Silverman's "Jewface" comments

  Shalhoub, a Maronite Christian who plays a Jewish professor on The Marvelous Mrs.

• Posted Monday 10/04/21 at 6:15PM EDT

  Sarah Silverman calls out Hollywood's "Jewface" problem in response to Kathryn Hahn's casting as Joan Rivers

  Hahn's recent casting as the comedy icon in the Showtime limited series The Comeback Girl was immediately criticized as the...

• Posted Wednesday 9/22/21 at 1:47PM EDT

  Kathryn Hahn's The Comeback Girl faces criticism for not casting a Jewish actress as Joan Rivers

  Hahn, who will star in the Showtime limited series about the iconic comedian, is the latest non-Jewish actress to play...

• Posted Wednesday 2/24/21 at 6:11PM EST

  NBC pulls Nurses episode accused of being anti-Semitic

  The Canadian medical drama was accused of anti-Semitism over a scene showing a Hasidic Jewish man refusing a bone graft...

• Posted Wednesday 2/24/21 at 2:07PM EST

  NBC's Nurses accused of anti-Semitism over a scene showing a Hasidic Jewish man refusing a bone graft from a non-Jew

  This is the second time in the past week an NBC show has been accused of anti-Semitism.

• Posted Saturday 11/21/20 at 8:14AM EST

  The Undoing author doesn't mind that the HBO adaptation erases her novel's Jewishness

  Sarah Silverman and Howard Stern are huge fans of David E.

• Posted Tuesday 8/04/20 at 10:49AM EDT

  The Umbrella Academy accused of "anti-Semitic dog-whistling"

  The Board of Deputies of British Jews has written an open letter to the Netflix superhero series, objecting to Kate...

• Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 4:12AM EDT

  We're in the midst of "Peak Jewish TV" thanks to Unorthodox, Hunters and The Plot Against America

  All three shows have "brought an exhilarating and enriching specificity to traditionally generic small-screen Jewish storytelling," says Daniel Fienberg, adding:...

• Posted Monday 8/13/18 at 9:39PM EDT

  Ruby Rose is the victim of a "left-wing harassment campaign" over her Batwoman casting

  "Shockingly, the predictable backlash to Ruby Rose’s recently announced casting appears to actually be coming from inside the house—from fans...

• Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 1:13PM EST

  DIY Network apologizes after one of its stars made an anti-Semitic slur

  Texas Flip N Move co-host Toni Snow said “You’re not even gonna bicker a little bit .

• Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 9:32AM EST

  Anti-Defamation League calls Larry David’s SNL concentration camp monologue “offensive, insensitive & unfunny”

  “He managed to be offensive, insensitive & unfunny all at the same time.

• Posted Friday 9/29/17 at 11:05PM EDT

  Has there ever been a TV series as Jewish as Transparent?

  “Sure,” says Isaac Butler, “other shows are about Jews, and other shows have the occasional yiddishisms thrown in, or, in...