From Soon By You to YidLife Crisis, here are the best Jewish web series available today:
"Judaism taught that time has a positive direction. The world is moving from its present state of conflict, suffering and war toward an ultimate redemption."
"The group leaves little to the imagination in an outrageous yet heartfelt performance that explores the tragic history of the LGBTQ community in light of the current political environment."
"I think Israel has all the merits of being a progressive cause in American politics," says Dani Dayan.
The total population of Malta is 430,000, including about 150 Jews, most of whom live on the main island and make up one of the smallest active Jewish communities in the Mediterranean.
Like the other passengers, Waguih Ghali walked into Lod airport—and stopped at the passport control counter. “You mean,” the clerk said, double checking that he had heard correctly, “that you are Egyptian?”
For generations in America and Europe, wooden barrels were where the magic happened: the lacto-fermentation of cucumbers.
Much like the amorphous clay from which it is usually formed, the golem is a highly mutable metaphor with seemingly limitless symbolism.
In 2015, Dorit Rabinyan's novel All the Rivers—which depicts a romance between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman—was pulled from Israel's curriculum.
"My initial response was to laugh," Rabinyan says. "The idea that a novel could be politically threatening in this way was like something from Kafka, not 21st-century Israel."
"Today, the notion of a nation-state is becoming unfashionable. But Israel is a nation-state for all the right reasons," says Dani Dayan.
