4+ hour, 45+ min ago  (213+ words) Happy June! This month marks the official beginning of summer, and it's also Pride Month " a 30-day celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and community, as well as a time to honor and continue the activism that has helped pave the way…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (862+ words) Watching television as a Jew always comes with discomfort. Will there be Jewish characters? How will they be depicted? And why is it almost always unsatisfying? A familiar dread set in last year when Netflix's "Running Point" premiered and introduced…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (284+ words) Butterfly" is a tender, stunning tribute to the Jewish Olympic swimmer and Holocaust survivor Alfred Nakache, born in 1915 into an Iraqi Jewish family in French colonial Algeria. The film depicts Nakache, a pioneer of the butterfly stroke, on the last…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (646+ words) Sadly for all the Jewish pop culture mavens out there, there's really nothing Jewish about hit hockey romance show "Heated Rivalry." (At least in season one, anyway.)But, the show's creator, writer and executive producer Jacob Tierney is Jewish! Here…...