The Times of Israel

Movies on non-Zionist ‘Maus’ creator among diverse features in capital’s Hanukkah film fest

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:37:07 +0000

Jerusalem Cinematheque's annual Jewish Film Festival, running Dec. 13-18, captures Jews' varied voices, including two docus on Art Spiegelman, who doesn't even want to think about Israel

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Jewish comic Gianmarco Soresi makes a punchline out of his mixed feelings for Israel

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:57:14 +0000

The 'comedian to watch,' who built a following of over 1 million on TikTok alone with videos of his ad-libbed banter with club audiences, releases a new special on his YouTube channel on Sept. 19

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As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:59:33 +0000

The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent

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He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he’s making Jewish comics history

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:03:32 +0000

At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry's Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like

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Animation event to host artist behind Noa Argamani graphic novel

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:05:48 +0000

Annual Animix Festival will focus on works created since October 7, including guest Makoto Tanaka, Japanese illustrator and Israel supporter

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Vancouver comics festival apologizes for excluding Jewish artist who served in IDF

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:08:18 +0000

After backlash, VanCAF says most board members involved in decision to ban Miriam Libicki have resigned; despite walkout, Seattle museum recommits to exhibit on antisemitism

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Here’s what Jewish New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s dreams are made of

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:41:28 +0000

The acclaimed illustrator, who has been at the magazine since 1978, takes readers on a nighttime tour of her phantasmagorical mind in her latest book, 'I Must Be Dreaming'

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How Marvel’s short-lived but overtly Jewish Black Panther flew under the radar

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:42:29 +0000

Decades after the character's 1966 debut, writer Christopher Priest created a twist in the storyline that some may find surprising

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Hunted by the mafia, Italian author teams up with Israeli artist in graphic memoir

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:39:52 +0000

In new cooperative work 'I'm Still Alive,' Roberto Saviano and Israeli Asaf Hanuka depict the author's life on the run since famously exposing the Camorra crime syndicate

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Israeli cartoonist says Marvel copied superhero Sabra, he’d sue if he had the means

Sun, 11 Sep 2022 20:45:03 +0000

As Shira Haas is cast as Israeli heroine in next Captain America film, Uri Fink recounts creating Sabraman two years before Sabra emerged, and warns portrayal might be anti-Israeli

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‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman to receive honorary US National Book Award

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 15:03:31 +0000

Foundation says cartoonist 'captured world’s imagination' with graphic novels. His 'groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form'

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Famed Israeli comic artists explore new worlds with NFT collection

Thu, 12 May 2022 17:02:47 +0000

Maya and Yehuda Devir, the pair behind a viral series of illustrations, delve into new tech to deliver new art

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Remembering Neal Adams, a comic book legend who championed Holocaust awareness

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:48:33 +0000

The man who revolutionized how comics are drawn is remembered for his activism - particularly on behalf of artists in an industry that has historically had many Jewish influencers

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Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain

Fri, 23 Jul 2021 23:21:36 +0000

Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive 'Is Superman Circumcised?' devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense

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Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 11:38:31 +0000

Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish

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