Stephen Silver
By Stephen Silver
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Fast Forward Documentary traces Idina Menzel’s rise from bat mitzvah performer to Broadway icon
“Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage” shows the singer on a tour in 2018 — which included a stop in Pittsburgh just after the Tree of Life shooting
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Culture 30 years ago, Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon starred in ‘School Ties’ — one of Hollywood’s few movies about antisemitism at school
The flick about a Jewish quarterback at an elite prep school tanked in theaters but became a cultural touchstone
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Fast Forward At ‘The Fabelmans’ premiere, Steven Spielberg discusses how his Jewish identity is portrayed in the autobiographical film
“I like very much the sort of easy way that Jewishness lives in this movie,” co-writer Tony Kushner said. “It’s a very profound part of Steven’s identity, and of the Fablemans’ identity.”
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Fast Forward How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary
“Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” which looks into the stories of people from a small Polish town before the war, traces its inspiration back to a basement in Florida.
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Books New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar
Turns out he was a crook who fled to Israel and spent time in the same jail where Adolf Eichmann was executed
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Film & TV To save Jews and keep the Nazis away, these doctors invented a fake infectious disease
The new documentary “Syndrome K” looks at a great unheralded Holocaust survival story
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Fast Forward With Bruce Pearl and Lior Berman, Auburn basketball heads into March Madness with rare Jewish coach-player combo
(JTA) — There aren’t many Jewish players in Division I men’s college basketball, and even fewer get to play for Jewish coaches. But that’s the case at Auburn University, the Alabama school that went 27-5 this year and held the No. 1 ranking in the country for a time. They head into March Madness as…
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Fast Forward One ‘crazy’ family: ‘Jackass: Forever’ star Rachel Wolfson on being the first Jew and woman on the stunt comedy team
(JTA) — Most film debuts don’t include licking a taser while dressed as a mime, or having a scorpion crawl on one’s face. But when it comes to the “Jackass” TV and movie franchise, that’s par for the course. That doesn’t mean Rachel Wolfson’s Jewish parents weren’t a little worried about her joining the stunt…
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