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Shalom, Larry David!
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' was perhaps the most Jewish series on television. Here is why.
Why I miss Tommy Smothers
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 28, 2023
(RNS) — The Smothers Brothers were funny. More than that: They were profoundly human and kind.
Why I miss Norman Lear
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 7, 2023
(RNS) — A television producer, director, cultural hero — and a religious thinker.
“The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” is great drama and great history
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 8, 2023
On one level, the saga of a Sephardic Jewish family. On another, Israel 101.
Why Pee Wee Herman mattered
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 1, 2023
Paul Reubens, aka Pee Wee Herman, was in the tradition of the great Jewish comedians.
‘The Chosen’ to debut much-anticipated third season on the big screen
By Kathryn Post — November 3, 2022
(RNS) — 'Two thousand years ago, we were facing the same denominational and political differences that we do today,' said director Dallas Jenkins. 'And there is an answer for them.'
Nightbirde, who shared music, message of hope on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ dies at 31
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 21, 2022
(RNS) — The singer, a Liberty University graduate who moved many viewers with her faith in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis, withdrew from 'America’s Got Talent' as her health declined.
Families of different faiths swap houses, lives in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Home Sweet Home’
By Emily McFarlan Miller and Adelle M. Banks — October 11, 2021
(RNS) — In the unscripted TV series, 16 families from different religious, racial and economic backgrounds or sexual orientations trade homes for a week.
‘GOD TV’ spat exposes tensions between Israel, evangelicals
By Joseph Krauss — May 18, 2020
JERUSALEM (AP) — An evangelical broadcaster in Israel now risks being taken off the air over suspicions of trying to convert Jews to Christianity, exposing tensions between Israel and its evangelical Christian supporters.
Joanne Rogers: On her husband Fred Rogers’ commitment to prayer, church, children
By Adelle M. Banks — November 15, 2019
(RNS) — ‘He did that every morning,’ Joanne Rogers recalled of his practice of praying for people by name. ‘And he had a legal pad with all the names on it that he wanted to remember.’
Watching the rise of the religious left on 1970s TV
By Jack Jenkins — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — In a new book, religion scholar L. Benjamin Rolsky looks at the history of the religious left from the unusual perspective of 'All in the Family' and its creator, Norman Lear.
The priest in ‘Fleabag’ is not cool
By Thomas Reese — May 29, 2019
(RNS) — The hard-drinking, foulmouthed priest in Amazon Prime’s series 'Fleabag' has been described as cool. But cool priests don't deny their parishioners the person they really need.
Why I already miss Bob Einstein
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 3, 2019
May Marty Funkhouser rest in peace.
Before the TV hit ‘God Friended Me,’ there were two friends fascinated with faith
By Cathleen Falsani — November 9, 2018
(RNS) — The creators of a new CBS show about a mysterious Facebook contact came together just as their faith journeys were diverging.
The ’Splainer: The stormy, surprising history of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
By Kimberly Winston — March 29, 2018
(RNS) — What's the back story on this British import being revisited and reimagined on television Sunday night? Let us 'Splain ...
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