TV

These are the best Jew-ish shows to binge on Netflix this year

To save you the work, we’ve sniffed out the Jewish creatives behind the platform’s most exciting new shows

Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review: ‘little comfort for those whose lives were marred’

This Netflix docuseries offers a depressing moral quandary but ultimately rings hollow

Why didn’t Netflix’s hot rabbi mention October 7?

A gag about hostage negotiations revealed the show’s lack of connection with the reality faced by Jewish people

The shows you won’t want to miss – on stage and screen

Here are some of the best (Jewish-adjacent) shows that TV, film and theatre have to offer in October and November

Nobody Wants This review: The premise is stupid, but I quite enjoyed the show

The main characters are two-dimensional in this ‘rabbi rom-com for goys’ but worth watching for the excellent supporting cast

The Jewish answer to Fleabag’s ‘hot priest’: Erin Foster on her new Netflix show Nobody Wants This

The actor and writer discusses casting Adam Brody as the ‘hot rabbi’ for her new Netflix rom-com and drawing from her personal experience as a Jewish convert

Kaos review: a deliciously Kaotic romp through modern Olympia

The fantasy series is a creative reimagining of Greek mythology, with Jeff Goldblum as a very Jewish (read: neurotic) king of the gods

Why Natalie Portman’s first TV drama left me bored senseless

It is packed to the rafters with Jewy things and it’s beautifully acted, so the JC’s editor-at-large should have loved it. I did not

TV review: Those About to Die: ‘an overblown mess of hammy dialogue and bloody fights’

The new swords and sandals epic has a big budget – but visuals that look no better than a video game cut scene

Youth choir made up of Palestinians and Israelis advances to second round of ‘America’s Got Talent’

Simon Cowell told the Jerusalem Youth Chorus: ‘You made something very complicated beautiful through friendship’

TV review: A Family Affair ‘A silly film that offers excellent escapism’

TV review: We were the Lucky Ones: Good series, shame about the lighting

This family drama works well, but the oppressive darkness in which it is filmed is difficult to watch

Kid Sister, review: How not to write a comedy about Jews

I lost hours of my life this predictable, badly acted, and really very annoying series

102-year-old Holocaust survivor is the face of Vogue Germany

Margot Friedländer is one of the best-known survivors in Germany and has dedicated her life to Holocaust education

TV review: Tokyo Vice: ‘The meticulous recreation of a very strange world’

Meet Daniel Daggers, the star of Netflix’s British version of Selling Sunset

Jewish estate agent who’s sold over £5bn of property adds ‘reality star’ to his list of achievements