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How Israel’s ‘Treatment’ Translates to Success for HBO

Naomi Pfefferman April 9, 2009

The premiere last Sunday of the second season of “In Treatment” on HBO marked a milestone in television history in both Israel and the United States. The acclaimed series is closely based on the Israeli hit, “Be’Tipul” (“In Treatment” in Hebrew), in which a conflicted psychologist treats a different patient in each of four episodes each week and visits his own therapist in the fifth.

‘Being Erica’ Takes Jewish Slant on Single Life

Naomi Pfefferman March 11, 2009

In the March 19 episode of SOAPnet’s time-travel fantasy, “Being Erica,” 30-something Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk) is zapped back to the day of her bat mitzvah, shocked to find her grownup brain inside her 13-year-old body as she recites her haftarah portion, which she barely remembers.

Doing Jews right on TV — for better or worse

Danielle Berrin November 20, 2008

The Jewish character has become the American Jewish character, disassociated from an ethnic history and assimilated into American culture. And the assimilation hasn\’t only been for Jews.

Malibu camp offers respite and community for kids with HIV

Danielle Berrin November 19, 2008

\” . . . This camp, this organization [Hollywood Heart] gives me true happiness.I get back so much more in ways that are impossible to quantify, in ways I couldn\’tget from anything material or anything else I\’ve ever done . . . \”

PBS presents ‘God on Trial’ in Auschwitz

Tom Tugend November 7, 2008

The prosecutor reads the charges against God: murder, collaboration with the enemy, breach of contract with His chosen people. Setting: A barrack in Auschwitz, with some 20 Jewish prisoners, half of whom will be gassed in the morning.

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