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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

Jordan Hoffman

Jordan Hoffman

A still from 'Concerned Citizen.' (Courtesy of the Israel Film Center Festival)
June 16, 2023, 12:16 am
Grab your rugelach and check out this year’s must-watch Israeli films
From June 1-8, NYC’s Israel Film Center Festival presented a selection of films that rivals Cannes or Sundance – but here you ran the chance of bumping into your Hebrew teacher
By Jordan Hoffman
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band perform, Monday, April 3, 2023, at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)
April 5, 2023, 3:44 pm
Proving it all night, 73-year-old Springsteen rocks a first-timer’s socks off in NYC
At an April 3 show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, The Boss treats fans to a non-stop 3-hour set, making a $334 dream come true for a nice Jewish boy who shares his NJ hometown
By Jordan Hoffman
Philip Roth. (Courtesy NJPAC)
March 17, 2023, 4:15 am
Even Portnoy wouldn’t complain about Newark gala for provocative author Philip Roth
Actors John Turturro, Matthew Broderick and Tony Shalhoub, plus a slew of appropriately edgy writers, will head up a 3-day literary festival for the hometown hero March 17-19
By Jordan Hoffman
A still from Marcel Ophuls's 1969 Holocaust documentary 'The Sorrow and the Pity.' (Courtesy of Kino Lorber)
February 23, 2023, 3:46 am
French Holocaust documentary ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ is still chillingly relevant
Re-released in the US on Feb. 24, Marcel Ophuls’ 4-hour 1969 film presents a riveting depiction of everyday life in Nazi-occupied France and is ultimately about human nature
By Jordan Hoffman
Paul Rudd and Kathryn Newton in a still from 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.' (Courtesy of Marvel)
February 16, 2023, 3:39 am
Mighty mensch Paul Rudd makes largely disappointing ‘Ant-Man’ a little more fun
Great performances by all-star actors including Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer can’t save Marvel’s latest release – out Feb. 16 – from soulless visuals and a languid plot
By Jordan Hoffman
Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale in 'Pokerface.' (Photo by: Evans Vestal Ward/Peacock)
January 26, 2023, 1:33 am
Natasha Lyonne’s well-played old Jewish man shtick makes ‘Poker Face’ a sure bet
Airing Jan. 26 on streaming service Peacock, this mystery of the week show is like a newish-Jewish spin on the old classic ‘Columbo’ – and we hope it runs just as long
By Jordan Hoffman
Left to right: Avshalom Pollak as 'Y' in Nadav Lapid's film 'Ahed's Knee' (Kino Lorber/ via JTA); Natasha Lyonne in 'Russian Doll' (Courtesy of Netflix © 2022); Michael Banks in James Gray’s ‘Armageddon Time' (Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features)
December 25, 2022, 9:53 am
ToI culture critic’s top 10 moments of Jewish entertainment for 2022
It’s been a banner year for films, shows, and theatrical productions by Jews or about the Jewish experience. Here are the best from Jordan Hoffman
By Jordan Hoffman
Manhattan's Carnegie Delicatessen and Restaurant, pictured here in 2008, opened in 1937 and was a fixture of New York City’s Theater District nearly 80 years before closing its doors in 2016. (Photo by Ei Katsumata /Alamy Stock Photo/ via the New-York Historical Society)
November 26, 2022, 4:12 am
In New York, a beloved West Coast deli exhibit takes on a Big Apple flavor
The very appetizing ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having: The Jewish Deli’ is at the New-York Historical Society through April 3. Get ready to step back into history – and to leave hungry
By Jordan Hoffman
Johnny Berchtold and Lily McInerny in 'Camp Siegfried.' (Photo by Emilio Madrid)
November 18, 2022, 2:48 am
An adorkable actor can’t save gimmicky ‘Camp Siegfried,’ set at Nazi retreat in NY
While well-executed and boasting fabulous talent, the off-Broadway show based on a true place ultimately feels like not much more than a cleverly-written teenage love story
By Jordan Hoffman
From left: Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) in 'She Said,' directed by Maria Schrader. (Courtesy Universal Pictures)
November 17, 2022, 3:00 am
Jews will breathe a sigh of relief after seeing Weinstein scandal biopic ‘She Said’
When the Oscar-favored film opens Nov. 18, Jewish theatergoers will kvell over the protagonists, a scrappy pair who represent the Tribe much more favorably than the villain does
By Jordan Hoffman
From left: Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), Mitzi Fabelman (Michelle Williams), Burt Fabelman (Paul Dano), Natalie Fabelman (Keeley Karsten), Reggie Fabelman (Julia Butters) and Lisa Fabelman (Sophia Kopera) in 'The Fabelmans,' co-written, produced and directed by Steven Spielberg. (Courtesy Universal Pictures)
November 11, 2022, 2:57 am
Spielberg’s very Jewish memoir film ‘The Fabelmans’ is one of the best of his career
Out in NY and LA on Nov. 11 and countrywide the next week, the star-studded autobiography is its acclaimed director’s genesis story, full of references Diaspora Jews will love
By Jordan Hoffman
Left to right: Michael Banks Repeta stars as Paul Graff and Jaylin Webb stars as Johnny Crocker in director James Gray's 'Armageddon Time.' (Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features)
October 28, 2022, 3:16 pm
Director James Gray on memoir film, Trump and growing up Jewish in working-class NY
Opening in NY and LA Oct. 28, ‘Armageddon Time’ is a fictionalized account rich with details Jews of a certain place and time will pick up on, and a universal ethical dilemma
By Jordan Hoffman
A scene from the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's play 'Leopoldstadt,' October 2022. (Courtesy/ Joan Marcus)
October 3, 2022, 10:18 pm
Tom Stoppard’s alt-neu Broadway play ‘Leopoldstadt’ is 140 minutes of shock and awe
Now running in NYC, the show is contemporary but reads like a classic, tracing a Jewish family through the surge and subsequent decimation of 20th-century Austrian Jewry
By Jordan Hoffman
'Do Revenge' villain Max Broussard, played by Austin Abrams, wears a Star of David necklace. (Kim Simms/Netflix)
September 21, 2022, 1:09 pm
Accused of antisemitism, Netflix hit ‘Do Revenge’ should have done its due diligence
The middling teen film flashes a gratuitous Star of David around the neck of the villain, spurring an online uproar and scoring an ‘own goal’ that could easily have been avoided
By Jordan Hoffman
German Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Public domain)
September 19, 2022, 2:38 pm
The uncomfortable truths in new documentary by Ken Burns, ‘The US and the Holocaust’
The three-part miniseries airing this week recognizes a part of WWII history many Americans are unfamiliar with – or would prefer not to know about
By Jordan Hoffman
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