Evelyn Frick
By Evelyn Frick
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Fast Forward This ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ star just got engaged
Fans of the show will recall the 29-year-old Jerusalemite for her intelligence, independence and zingy one-liners like 'No abs, no Cindy' and 'Putting on tefillin is hot'
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Fast Forward Idina Menzel, Ilana Glazer, Rachel Bloom and several other Jewish celebs discuss antisemitism on YouTube show
(JTA) — This article first appeared on Hey Alma. It’s fun and exciting when our favorite celebrities regale us with the minutiae of their lives. What color were the balloon arches at Jenny Slate’s bat mitzvah? How does Morgan Spector react to being the object of the internet’s thirst? But when our favorite celebrities speak out on issues…
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Fast Forward Season 2 of ‘Russian Doll’ on Netflix promises to be even more Jewish
(JTA) — This article first appeared on Alma. In a few short weeks, the excruciating, pandemic-prolonged wait will be over: Season two of “Russian Doll” is finally dropping on Netflix on April 20, 2022. According to some new and exciting teasers, it seems that the wait will have been well worth it for Jewish fans. In…
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Fast Forward NHL star Adam Fox isn’t your average bar mitzvah boy from Long Island
(JTA) — The way Adam Fox describes it, he was brought up like any other not-very-religious Jewish kid on Long Island. “I’m from a pretty normal family,” he explained to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “[I have] two Jewish parents and I went to temple like a normal kid, got bar mitzvahed and, you know, nothing…
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Fast Forward The NHL has a historically good set of Jewish hockey players right now
(JTA) — The 2021-2022 NHL season is underway, and there are some pretty exciting updates for hockey fans. There’s the new team the Seattle Kraken (yes, named after the huge sea monster from Scandinavian folklore), and the fact that NHL stars will return to the Olympics in Beijing in 2022 — the first time they…
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Fast Forward For Jewish Indigenous actress Sarah Podemski, it’s a miracle just to exist
A version of this article originally appeared on Alma. In FX’s newest hit series, “Reservation Dogs,” the audience first meets Rita Smallhill, mother to main character Bear, prepping for a night out. Rita croons TLC’s “Waterfalls” while blithely swiping mascara across her eyelashes and checking herself out in the mirror. When Bear asks where she’s…
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News The Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis, became a medical pioneer and founded the Paralympics
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on Alma. The 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games open on Tuesday. Much like the Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, there are plenty of Jewish athletes to support, like emerging track and field star Ezra Frech and veteran swimmer Matt Levy. But unlike the Olympic Games, the Paralympics have an…
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Food A Jewish deli pop-up in LA with a surprising secret ingredient: pork
(JTA) — This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Chef Rebecca King loves being a bad Jew. She has done so since her days at Jewish summer camp. “We [my friends and I] were like, ‘We want to be bad Jews! We want to get bacon,” she said recently via phone interview. “I just remember…
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