The Israeli TV show about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family may not seem like the usual TV phenomenon, but the unexpected combination is a hit, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. A bar-mitzvah-aged boy ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Would the builders of New York’s Temple Emanu-El ever have imagined that their congregation’s sanctuary would one day be packed to the balconies with thousands of devout followers of ...
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Is Shtisel the latest craze or talk of the town? Well, yes and no. “Shtisel” is the last name of a fictional haredi Jerusalem family in Jerusalem's haredi Geula neighborhood that is the focus of a ...
“Nothing human is alien to me,” the Roman playwright Terence wrote. And yet I cannot help but wonder what I could possibly learn about life from the Jewish ultra-orthodox. This is a community that has ...
“Shtisel,” the Israeli series about an Ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Haredi community, has been a worldwide hit since it premiered its first season on Netflix in 2018, five years after its ...
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ISTANBUL, Turkey (JTA) — “Shtisel,” a TV series about ultra-Orthodox Jews that became an international phenomenon after Netflix picked it up in 2018, is getting a Muslim makeover for Turkish audiences ...
The Israeli TV show about an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family may not seem like the usual TV phenomenon, but the unexpected combination is a hit, writes Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. A bar-mitzvah-aged boy ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Would the builders of New York’s Temple Emanu-El ever have imagined that their congregation’s sanctuary would one day be packed to the balconies with thousands of devout followers of ...
ISTANBUL (JTA) — “Shtisel,” a TV series about haredi Orthodox Jews that became an international phenomenon after Netflix picked it up in 2018, is getting a Muslim makeover for Turkish audiences, ...