Eliana Jordan

4 days ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

If you're not among the hordes of chronically online Gen Z-ers, you might not have heard of Owen Thiele. However, the up-and-coming young actor currently starring in TV shows “Overcompensating” and “Adults” is also in the process of creating a Jewish comedy series for Amazon, and he’s set to become a household name.

1 week ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

Her shtick was asking tough questions in a demure tone, and she also excelled at humanising larger-than-life figures by probing them about their domestic lives past and present.  Or, in the case of Putin, by asking outright the question everyone else was too afraid to pose: “Did you ever ordered anyone killed?” Her predilection for the personal attracted the ire of her male industry colleagues into whose fraternity she was never accepted.

1 week ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

Perhaps it is baked into his Somebody Feed Phil contract that Phil Rosenthal, the nebbishy Jewish creator of the 90s sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond remain perpetually apprehensive of unfamiliar experiences, despite now having eight years of televised international travel under his belt. For the foodie travel series, whose eighth season is released on Netflix this week, remains the same anodyne, mildly entertaining comfort watch it always been.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

“It is also a love story with beautifully rendered intimate scenes written with delicacy and compelling eroticism. This astonishing debut is a classic in the making, a story to be loved and appreciated for generations to come. Books like this don’t come along every day,” de Waal said.

2 weeks ago | thejc.com | Eliana Jordan

After the lavish wedding of Princess Iman Pahlavi and American businessman Bradley Sherman last weekend, the exiled Iranian royal family introduced its first ever Jewish member. Sherman, born in Chicago to a Jewish family, is the newest addition to the distinguished Pahlavi dynasty, which has been based in the US since the monarchy led by Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was toppled during the Islamic Revolution of 1979.