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Timothée Chalamet attends the premiere of 'Marty Supreme' at the Regal Times Square on December 16, 2025 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
January 3, 2026, 9:01 am
The Reel Schmooze: ‘Marty Supreme’ and the art of chutzpa
Movie maven Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan on the new supremely Jewish sports/comedy/drama starring Timothée Chalamet and a whole cast of NY characters
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
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May 7, 2024, 9:19 pm
Fran Drescher – Kicking cancer to the curb
Fran is the Founder of the Cancer Schmancer Movement and was “The Nanny” on the hit television show.
Fran Drescher speaks along with Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine at a SAG-AFTRA rally in New York City, Aug. 1, 2023. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA)
October 6, 2023, 5:31 pm
Variety magazine to hold star-studded Hollywood summit on antisemitism
Fran Drescher to deliver keynote; Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Alex Edelman and Marc Maron will discuss using comedy to open discourse on contemporary antisemitism
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, is interviewed at a Writers Guild of America rally outside Paramount Pictures studio, May 8, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
July 20, 2023, 12:54 am
SAG strike puts its brash Jewish president, Fran Drescher, squarely in the spotlight
The ‘Nanny’ writer and actress continues in the tradition of Jewish women labor activists – and her portrayals in television and film show that she has long admired them
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Fran Drescher in Los Angeles, November 11, 2019. (Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images via JTA)
January 9, 2020, 8:51 am
‘The Nanny’ is heading to Broadway
Star and creator Fran Drescher working with Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger to produce stage musical version of hit ’90s TV show
By Emily Burack
Fran Drescher is flanked by Jane Eisner, left, and Rachel Fishman Feddersen, the Forward’s editor in chief and publisher, respectively, at the newspaper’s 120th anniversary gala at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, Nov. 13, 2017. (Jerry Lacay)
November 16, 2017, 8:56 am
The Forward honors Jewish journalists on its 120th anniversary
BuzzFeed editor-in-Chief Ben Smith, longtime television correspondent Andrea Mitchell given this year’s Distinguished Journalism Award
By JTA
Clockwise from top left: Fran Drescher (Wikimedia Commons), Larry Kramer (Courtesy of HBO), Rabbi Steven Greenberg in 2014 (Wikimedia Commons), Jazz Jennings (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Trevor Project)
June 28, 2016, 9:19 am
9 Jewish LGBTQ activists you should know
From Stonewall to the US Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Jews have been at the forefront of the fight for equal rights. Here are some of the most influential voices still making a difference
By Gabe Friedman
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