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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Oy with the poodles! An official “Gilmore Girls” documentary is coming to HBO. It has been 26 years since viewers were first introduced to the quirky denizens of Stars Hollow, including mother/daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Now, for the first time, series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is going to take fans behind the scenes with an official documentary about the beloved show.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Paging all “Pitt” fans! A teaser for season three of everyone’s favorite medical thriller — and HBO’s arguably most Jewish show streaming — has arrived. And we can all take a collective sigh of relief: Dr. Robby lives!! The 75-second teaser features Noah Wyle’s gruff Dr. Robby returning for his first shift back at The Pitt following a three-month sabbatical.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Max Greenfield is known for a few iconic Jewish roles: Schmidt in “New Girl,” Yoshi Schwooper in “Long Story Short,” as himself miming the blowing of the shofar on the James Corden show in 2022, and now as Ted Birenbaum, the Jewish dad of the Birenbaum family in the just-released film “Don’t Say Good Luck” (which, as of press time, is the number two movie on Netflix).

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’m not one for big birthday bashes, but as my 40th approached this past July, I figured this was the year to make a splash. And so my husband and I planned it all out: a backyard barbecue with all our local friends. We’d make it family-friendly so no one had to find a babysitter. We bought a giant inflatable water slide, a pop-up tent for shade, burgers from the fancy butcher shop and just the right combination of juice boxes and beer.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In their 2023 study of American Jews, the Pew Research Center found that nearly a quarter of all Jews in the United States attended yeshiva or Jewish day school.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editorial note: Spoilers ahead for “Don’t Say Good Luck.” In “Don’t Say Good Luck,” Netflix’s new tear-jerker coming-of-age drama, the Birenbaums appear to be like a lot of secular Jewish families. The front door of their suburban New Jersey home bears a mezuzah, and the mantel piece a menorah and Shabbat candlesticks. They have bagels for breakfast — presumably fresh from the family-owned deli Birenbaum’s.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Suzy Ultman has been delighting us for years, ever since the algorithm gods placed her adorable felt “Shalom” pennant on our feeds. Since then, the award-winning author, illustrator and product designer has brought so much Jewish joy into our lives through her art and the many Jewish children’s books she’s written and illustrated.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At some point, Adam Sandler achieved peak Jewish dad.I’m not referring to back in May of 2006, when he and his wife, Jackie, welcomed their first baby, Sadie, and he literally became a father.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Turn on HBO or HBO Max, and you’re bound to find shows that are edgy, cinematic and deeply compelling. You’ll also find many shows, HBO/Max Original or otherwise, that are plenty Jewish. There are adaptions of Phillip Roth novels, riveting medical dramas, incisive political satire and Y2K teen romance dramedies. These series either depict or riff on Jewish life, are full of Jewish characters and themes and/or bear the influence of Jewish icons.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You’ve probably heard the story that the teddy bear was named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. But did you know that it was Jewish immigrants who actually invented the teddy bear? The story begins in November 1902, when Roosevelt went bear hunting near Onward, Mississippi. But even this familiar tale isn’t quite as cuddly as the version we’ve inherited. Roosevelt, an enthusiastic hunter, had come up empty-handed.