Jewish highlights at the Oscars
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy…
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A Jewish producer of ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’ sees his family history in the Oscar-winning Netflix film
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) — The film producer Daniel Dreifuss has only one surviving photo of a distant relative: his grandfather’s cousin, who fought for…
Golda Meir biopic starring Helen Mirren premieres at the Berlin Film Festival
by Gabe Friedman (JTA) — When a film about a group of Israeli youths who visit former concentration camps in Poland premiered on Sunday at…
Netflix’s ‘You People’ wasn’t funny at all to my Black and Mexican Jewish family
by Cinthya Silverstein (JTA) — As a couple that is two parts Jew, one part Black, and all parts lovers of comedy, my husband and…
Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ earns 7 Oscar nods, WWI epic with anti-Nazi past gets 9
by Andrew Lapin (JTA) – “The Fabelmans,” Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama about his Jewish upbringing, had an expected strong haul of Oscar nominations, picking up…