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Oct 1, 2026, 8:27 PM

Adam Brody: From Hot Rabbi to Hot Seat

It seems the producers of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This have gotten one thing correct: truly, nobody does want this. As a Jewish viewer, I was excited to watch the show, yet my enthusiasm turned to wariness within the first...

Sep 27, 2026, 1:45 PM

Adam Brody, Compassion Does Not Require Joining This Chorus

I believe Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza. This open letter asks Adam Brody to withdraw his accusation — and challenges the idea that using the word “genocide” has become a prerequisite for caring about Palestinians. Dear Mr. Brody, “Put...

Sep 18, 2026, 11:41 AM

She’s Not a Child

I just finished an awkward, self-imposed 25-minute standing ovation in my living room after the final episode of Season 5 of Fauda. I figured their fictional series based on the real-life events of October 7 deserved the same standing...

Sep 9, 2026, 9:27 PM

Fauda attempts tikkun

Fauda’s latest season grapples with the aftermath of the Hamas massacre on October 7, and was rewritten after the fact in order to do so. However, the new season marks a clear departure from the last four. Before this season,...

Sheldon Kirshner

Aug 16, 2026, 4:50 PM

A Place To Call Home

Bevan Lee's Australian television series, A Place To Call Home, definitely strikes a chord. A vibrant family drama consisting of 67 episodes, it is now available on the Amazon Prime platform. I was inexorably drawn into it from the very...

Sharon Rosen Leib

Jul 5, 2026, 11:42 AM

Jewish Motherly Advice for Bari Weiss: Resign

I’m just old enough to be CBS News’ Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss’ mother. Thankfully, I’m not. I already raised three kind, brilliant, beautiful, gutsy, independent adult daughters who bring me much nachas (Yiddish for pride), and four kids is a...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jul 3, 2026, 1:15 PM

Israel: Four Nations Divided by a Common (Dis)Communication System

The recent news about social media has focused on various countries’ efforts to legislatively prohibit social media use by youngsters. That’s a positive micro-turn, but not the macro-threat that is really undermining social cohesion and even democracy: the characteristics...

Jun 25, 2026, 10:45 PM

The Grievance Economy

Illustrative. Grief in a living room. Outrage on a screen. How media and algorithms turn private loss into public grievance. Created by the author.

This essay is part of an ongoing series on “peace preparation” — the emotional, relational, and narrative work that political agreements cannot do on their own. Earlier pieces traced how grief becomes identity and identity becomes grievance; this one...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jun 14, 2026, 5:25 PM

What Gilad Janklowicz Understood About Our Bodies and Television

Gilad Janklowicz, who died on June 9 at the age of 71, spent forty-two years coaching viewers through a screen. A former Israeli decathlon champion, he had moved to California to train for the Olympics until an Achilles injury...

Apr 28, 2026, 10:59 AM

Shoe is Not So Great on the Other foot, Huh?

Imagine this. You’re at the cool kids party or what is otherwise known as the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. All your friends are there rubbing shoulders with each other and cozying up to the famous television and Hollywood types you...

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