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Article 119
Sarah Palin’s surprise resignation last week offered a little something for everyone: from supporters eager to once again tar the Alaska governor’s critics as sexist classists to detractors happy to...
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Article 118
A couple years ago, a lovable giant rodent with a curious resemblance to a more famous lovable giant rodent joyously instructed Palestinian children to resist the Zionists on a Hamas TV program—or he...
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Article 117
In Tablet Magazine today, Mayim Bialik, who starred in the early-‘90s series Blossom, relays how her religiously-motivated modest dress can conflict with her career. Douglas Century wraps up his saga...
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Article 116
Dudu Topaz, the disgraced Israeli television star who was arrested recently after admitting to orchestrating attacks on entertainment industry honchos he believed had wronged him, hung himself in his...
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Article 115
Footnotes: 1. Cal State-Northridge 2. Cal State-Northridge 3. National Literacy Trust (U.K.) 4. Cal State-Northridge 5. APA Continue reading "" at...
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Article 114
Shalom Sesame, the Jewish-themed Sesame Street spinoff that aired on PBS stations in the late 1980s and introduced a generation of kids to Big Bird’s porcupine friend Kippi ben Kippod and Oscar the...
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Article 113
Curb Your Enthusiasm will be even more meta than usual in its seventh season, when the real cast of Seinfeld reunites for a fictional Seinfeld reunion show organized by Larry David’s HBO alter ego,...
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Article 112
Television’s small pantheon of animated Jewish characters just got a bit bigger: On Sunday night’s episode, entitled “Family Goy,” Lois Griffin, the matriarch on Seth MacFarlane’s Fox hit Family Guy,...
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Article 111
ParentDish blogger Susan Avery interviewed reality-TV star-cum-cad Jon Gosselin last week, and we here present a selection from that interview, offered with no comment beyond ParentDish’s headline,...
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Article 110
Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek Medical Center—one of the world’s busiest hospitals—normally treats secular and Haredi Jews, Israeli-Arabs and West Bank Palestinians, and Jewish settlers. But even emergency...
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Article 109
I’m writing this column at four in the morning, and not because I’ve decided to pursue a second career as an insomniac or a vampire. It’s just a nagging case of jetlag that I hope will pass by Kol...
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Article 108
The summer of 1960 was a challenging one for Joe Barbera. A mogul of animation—together with his partner, Bill Hanna, he had created immensely popular characters like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and...
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Article 107
When he was newly divorced from his first wife, my brother moved into a small apartment near the Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. Emotionally shattered, he didn’t even bother to hook up the gas and...
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Article 106
Maxine, my 5-year-old, was home sick last week, dripping snot and hacking like a two-pack-a-day smoker in Boca. I drugged her up, plunked her down on the couch, wrapped her in a blanket, and put on...
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Article 105
Even though it is a work of fiction, The Promise—a four-part miniseries that aired last month on Great Britain’s public-owned but commercially sponsored Channel 4—is a strong candidate to redeem the...
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Article 104
As I write this, public school is on break, the Seders are over, and parents want nothing more than to plop their children in front of the TV. But we’re also beginning the period of reflection known as...
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Article 103
In the interest of time, I’ll keep this column short. Maybe then more of you will find the time to read it. You, after all, have other things going on in your lives: More than 85 percent of you, if...
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Article 102
This week’s parasha contains one of the most astonishingly strange moments in a book generally bursting with them. It merits being read in full, but for the hurried, here’s a condensed version: If a...
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Article 101
I loathe stupid tween TV. But one show redeems the entire genre. All hail Phineas and Ferb, now midway through its third season on the Disney Channel. Phineas and Ferb, as I will endeavor to explain to...
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The Russian-American Jews of ‘Russian Dolls’
In the first episode of Russian Dolls, a new Lifetime reality show set in Brooklyn and billed as a cross between Jersey Shore and the Real Housewives franchise, a 23-year-old bleached-blonde named...
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