Rachel Sennott is neither gay nor Jewish, yet she keeps playing characters who are one or both of those things. So it was in Olivia Peace’s Tahara and Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby, and now she’s co-written the violent slapstick high-school comedy Bottoms with Seligman. The movie weirdly plays like Pitch Perfect with a
From foundational works to under-appreciated gems, these movies reflect some (but not all) of the rich history of Jewish storytelling onscreen, as well as varied American Jewish experiences.
The Netflix romcom "You People" has stirred up no shortage of controversy. Let the Jewish Film Institute recommend some other movies about "Black-Jewish relations."