Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice
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(JTA)-Yas, queen-it's all coming to an end. "Broad City," the hit Comedy Central series created by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, aired its series finale on March 28 after five seasons. The series was groundbreaking for many reasons: It showcased a very specific comedic sensibility-empowering, female, New Yorker, millennial, stoner-oriented-that hadn't quite been seen before on mainstream television. But another big part of the "Broad City" women's identities was their...
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)-There's something uniquely American about an event that combines secular ritual with actual religion. In six states and the District of Columbia, but especially in Pennsylvania, shopping at Wawa is very much a ritual. It's the convenience store where you grab your morning coffee, your lunchtime hoagie and your overall feeling of regional pride. Performance artist Brian Feldman had the idea to combine this secular religion with his real one, Judaism. The result was Wawa...
(JTA)-"If Beale Street Could Talk," the new film from "Moonlight" director Barry Jenkins, is at heart a film about African-American love during a time of rampant racism. It's an adaption of James Baldwin's heartbreaking 1974 novel of the same name, which depicts a young African-American couple in 1970s New York whose love story is unjustly derailed. But one of the film's most powerful-and most talked about-scenes begins with a close-up of the back of the head of a yarmulke-wearing man as he...
(JTA)-On Sept. 13, 1993, exactly 25 years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat were captured shaking hands in a historic ceremony in Washington, D.C., hosted by President Bill Clinton. The leaders agreed to set up a framework, now known as Oslo Accord I, that would lead to the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But that photograph was just the culmination of a series of secret negotiations held in Norway over several months. And...
By Stephen Silver NEW YORK (JTA)-Whatever else you can say about the somewhat mixed legacy of his work, you certainly can't question Adam Sandler's credentials as an avatar of Jewish cultural pride. Chalk that up to his famous Chanukah song, which name-checked an array of famous Jews, his Chanukah-themed animated comedy "Eight Crazy Nights" and the 2008 film "You Don't Mess With the Zohan." In "Zohan," Sandler played an elite and legendary Israeli soldier who longs for a peaceful life. The...
