J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s latest cartoon features a Bay Area Jewish family

Bay Area-born writer and producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg talks to J. about his latest animated series, “Long Story Short.” ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish text animation group launches summer residency

NEW YORK (JTA) — The popular Jewish animation outfit G-dcast is launching an artists’ residency program in San Francisco. The residency, to be held at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in August, will ...
The Forward

How Netflix’s new Jewish protagonist is breaking ground for trans teens

Imagine logging onto Netflix and seeing a beautiful Jewish wedding scene, complete with kippot, a floral huppah, and breaking of a glass. Now imagine that this scene is the musical daydream of a gay, ...
Jewish Journal

Groundbreaking Jewish Content Site BimBam Shuts Down

In early April, BimBam, the pioneering and award-winning Jewish digital storytelling site best known for its animated videos depicting weekly Torah portions, announced it was shutting down after 11 ...
The Art Newspaper

Through animation and home videos, three films in Toronto try to retrieve a lost Jewish past

Three films screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (9-18 September) probe aspects of the Holocaust, two as animated cartoons, one as a deconstruction of fragments of a 1938 home movie. In ...
Seattle Times

Jewish fest, anti-war films, animation and monkey business

The Seattle Jewish Film Festival continues at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow with Eytan Fox’s 2003 Israeli feature “Walk on Water,” a contemporary thriller set in Tel Aviv and Berlin about a Mossad assassin on ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Saying ‘mazel tov’ on Facebook now activates a colorful confetti animation

Just like other happy English phrases that activate animations, the Hebrew phrase triggers a splash of balloons and confetti. Now Facebook users who want to wish someone “mazel tov” get a colorful ...
Jewish Press

Zionism in Animation

A retelling of the history of Zionism was launched on Wednesday with an animated video chronicling the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty in its historic homeland through Israel’s Declaration of ...
Jewish Press

The Lack of Jewish Rage, Zionism in Animation, and the Rationale Behind Belief in God

Yishai takes the occasion of Israel’s Remembrance Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism — and last week’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — to express his view of Jewish victimhood. He says that ...
The Art Newspaper

Through animation and home videos, three films in Toronto try to retrieve a lost Jewish past

Three films screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (9-18 September) probe aspects of the Holocaust, two as animated cartoons, one as a deconstruction of fragments of a 1938 home movie. In ...