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Composer Gilad Benamram working on the score for the fifth and final season of 'Fauda,' which premiered on Netflix on September 8, 2026 (Courtesy)
Interview
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'It's the mother of all of the musical themes'
‘Fauda’ composer channels October 7 trauma into new season’s searing soundtrack
By Jessica Steinberg
All eight episodes premiere worldwide on Netflix, with Gilad Benamram's new score, rewritten around Israel's complex emotional landscape following the Hamas onslaught
This week's Reel Schmooze is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Star Trek series. (courtesy)
The Reel Schmooze podcast
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Star Trek: 60 years to the most gloriously nerdy enterprise
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
The 2026 Sandler family production 'Don't Say Good Luck' is this week's featured film on The Reel Schmooze. (Courtesy)
August 22, 2026, 11:16 am
‘Don’t Say Good Luck’: The Sunny (Sandler) side of life, with cancer
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the newest Sandler family production, starring daughter Sunny and a cast of actors forming a relatable family going through a too-common crisis
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
Ralph Bakshi's 1977 'Wizards' is the featured film of this week's The Reel Schmooze podcast. (courtesy)
August 15, 2026, 12:06 pm
‘Wizards’: Does animated 1977 art film belong in the canon, or in the geniza?
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the completely bizarre mixed-medium movie that wrestles with magic, boobies, evil Nazis and Hitler 5,000 years in the future
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
1979 'The Frisco Kid,' starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford, is this week's featured film on The Reel Schmooze podcast. (courteys)
August 8, 2026, 12:07 pm
‘The Frisco Kid’: A (gefilte) fish out of water in the Wild West
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the extremely Jewish 1979 cowboy flick starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
Director Rachel Israel, right, and producer Shai Korman arrive at the premiere of 'The Floaters' during the 2025 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, August 3, 2025. (Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images via JTA)
August 7, 2026, 1:53 am
With 2 new films, director Rachel Israel offers comic relief for Diaspora Jews on edge
In ‘The Floaters’ and ‘Influenced,’ the New York filmmaker shows Jewish identity as the backdrop for friendship, family and ambition rather than antisemitism or crisis
By Stephen Silver
This week's The Reel Schmooze podcast features Billy Wilder's 1944 'Double Indemnity.' (courtesy)
August 1, 2026, 12:06 pm
‘Double Indemnity’: Billy Wilder’s film noir masterpiece
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1944 release that help launch a genre and put the Jewish refugee from Europe on on the movie-making map
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
This week's The Reel Schmooze podcast features 'Reading Lolita in Tehran.' (courtesy)
July 25, 2026, 11:14 am
‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’: Lifts veil on how regime turned rotten
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the ‘memoir in books’ written by Iranian-American author Azar Nafisi and directed by Israeli Eran Riklis
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
This week's Reel Schmooze podcast focuses on filmmaker Daniel Roher's 'Tuner.' (courtesy)
July 18, 2026, 11:12 am
‘Tuner’: The Jewiest film of the summer
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the comedic crime thriller that spotlights Dustin Hoffman, Lior Raz and Tovah Feldshuh
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
A cheering crowd at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion Airport raises a member of the rescue squad that freed the hijacked hostages from Uganda earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. In the background is the C-130 transport plane that took part in the raid. The rescuer's face is obscured for security reasons. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 27, 2026, 10:51 am
‘Operation Thunderbolt’: 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1977 Israeli adventure film based on the real-life daring IDF rescue of over 100 hostages from Uganda that had taken place only a year earlier
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
1972's screwball comedy 'What's Up, Doc?' is featured on this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)
June 20, 2026, 11:51 am
‘What’s up, Doc?’: Sultry Streisand’s screwball meshugas
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss the 1972 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, and starring a wacky Barbra Streisand and nerdy Ryan O’Neal
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
Joseph Cedar's 2007 'Beaufort' features on this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)
June 13, 2026, 10:00 am
‘Beaufort’: How Israel left Lebanon in 2000 with a bang
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor discuss Joseph Cedar’s newly resonant 2007 Oscar-nominated film
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
This week's The Reel Schmooze podcast tackles Netalie Braun's 2025 Israeli film 'Oxygen.' (courtesy)
June 6, 2026, 10:33 am
‘Oxygen’: An Israeli mother sacrifices all to keep soldier son breathing
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor welcome their first guest, Isaac Zablocki, ahead of his 14th Annual Israel Film Center Festival, and discuss two Israeli titles from the lineup
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
The Coen Brother's 'A Serious Man' is the subject of this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)
May 30, 2026, 10:25 am
‘A Serious Man’: Coen brothers craft the Jewiest film of all
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor kvell over the 2009 dark comedy set in the wilds of 1967 Minnesota
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
The 1966 ode to Mickey Marcus 'Cast a Giant Shadow' is featured on this week's The Reel Schmooze.
May 16, 2026, 10:21 am
‘Cast a Giant Shadow’: A 1966 ode to Israel’s first general, Mickey Marcus
The opinions of ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor diverge starkly on this old classic. Stay tuned to see who gave it a ‘meh’ and who thought it was ‘not bad’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
This week's The Reel Schmooze features 'Bernstein's Wall' and 'Maestro.' (courtesy)
May 9, 2026, 9:15 am
Who wore it better: Bradley Cooper or Maestro Leonard Bernstein?
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor consider the depiction of the troubled genius in Hollywood biopic ‘Maestro’ versus the master’s own voice in documentary ‘Bernstein’s Wall’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
Sadie Sandler's 'Roommates' is featured on this week's The Reel Schmooze. (Netflix)
May 2, 2026, 10:18 am
‘Roommates’ and ‘How to Make Challah’: Different slices of Jewish American pie
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor on a Sadie Sandler Netflix vehicle — currently #1 in Israel — and a 13-minute intergenerational indie short
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
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