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Oct 18, 2026, 6:44 PM

Fauda Season 5 – The Season That Didn’t Apologize

As I wrote last month (link), I had serious hesitations about whether to watch the new season of Fauda. In the end, I decided to go for it. The season is structured so that the October 7th episodes (7...

Sarah Ansbacher

Oct 14, 2026, 2:31 PM

East of Eden and north of Jaffa: John Steinbeck’s hope

East of Eden. Promotional still courtesy of Netflix. Used for illustrative review and commentary purposes under Fair Use.

The author's 19th century ancestors moved to the holy land to help teach the Jewish community to farm. I found traces of them in Tel Aviv – and on Netflix

Oct 9, 2026, 12:57 AM

Jewish Creators Need a New Hollywood Moment

Griffith Observatory

There is a remarkable lesson buried in the history of Hollywood. More than a century ago, Jewish immigrants and their children faced barriers in many of America’s established professions and cultural institutions. Publishing, journalism and other traditional avenues of influence...

Oct 5, 2026, 11:30 AM

Nobody Wants Dis-agreement

Adam Brody said something about Israel. That should not be a remarkable sentence. He is an American citizen, an actor and a Jew. Jews have been saying things about Israel—and arguing with one another about those things—for considerably longer...

Hillel Schenker

Oct 5, 2026, 12:09 AM

What’s Wrong with ‘Fauda Season 5’?

Like all other Israelis, I have not yet seen the film “NAZA” that has aroused so much controversy, though that doesn't seem to prevent people from having very strong opinions about something they haven't seen. I figured that the...

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...

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