Television

A Television Drama Libels Hasidic Jews as Benighted Bigots

While a comedy does the same to Israel.

Allison Josephs
Feb. 24 2021 12:01AM

A Television Series about the Yom Kippur War Fails to Tell the Israeli Side of the Story

Vale of Tears.

Jonathan Spyer
Dec. 11 2020 12:01AM

A New Television Drama Appears to Embrace the Blood Libel

Anti-Semitism in Lovecraft Country.

Philissa Cramer
Sept. 4 2020 12:01AM

Called Sacrilegious and Unpatriotic by Its Detractors, a Popular Israeli Comedy Provides Loving, if Biting, Satire

The Jews Are Coming.

Lazar Berman
Aug. 27 2020 12:01AM

Netflix’s Heretics and Their Descent into the Postmodern Abyss

Unorthodox and The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch tell the same simplistic tale.

Roy Pinchot
Aug. 11 2020 12:01AM

How Israel Became a Global Television Powerhouse

From Homeland to Tehran.

Alon Aranya
Aug. 3 2020 12:01AM

Israel and Jews on Ramadan Television in the Arab World

Saudi TV is sympathetic, while Egyptian TV isn’t.

Edy Cohen
May 22 2020 12:01AM

While Egyptian Television Tries to Imagine a World without Israel, It Can’t Answer the Tough Questions

Would Linda Sarsour or Rashida Tlaib move to a “liberated Palestine”?

Nervana Mahmoud
May 15 2020 12:01AM

If “Unorthodox” Gets Something Right, It’s That the Exotic Jew Is Always a Hot Commodity

The queasy transaction of the ex-Orthodox narrative.

Naomi Seidman
May 8 2020 12:01AM

A New Documentary Tells the Story of a Concentration Camp Guard Who Might Have Been “Ivan the Terrible”—or Just a Terrible Ivan

The Devil Next Door.

Scot Lerner
April 22 2020 12:01AM

Philip Roth’s Self-Indulgent Paranoia Comes to the Small Screen

An inadvertent warning about the dangers of political infantilization.

Ruth R. Wisse
March 19 2020 12:01AM

One-and-a-Half-Cheers for an Amazon Series about Nazi Hunters

Sometimes revenge is the best revenge.

A.E. Smith
March 18 2020 12:01AM

A New Television Series about Nazi Hunters Trivializes Its Subject Matter with Comic-Book Silliness

Al Pacino’s Meyer Offerman is no Simon Wiesenthal.

Kyle Smith
Feb. 20 2020 12:01AM

Netflix's "The Spy" Manages to Convey the Ethnic Irony at the Heart of Eli Cohen's Life

In 1960s Israel, Arabic-speaking Jews were invaluable as spies for their new country. In normal life, they were marginalized.

Matti Friedman
Oct. 29 2019 12:01AM
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