54 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 

Arts&Life

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Scarlett Johansson, 35, will 
be the host of Saturday Night 
Live on Dec. 14. I suspect she’
s 
hosting in order to get a plug in 
about Marriage Story, a Netflix 
film which began streaming last 
week and is a real Oscar con-
tender. 
Last October, I reported that 
Tiffany Haddish, whose late 
father was an Eritrean Jew, had 
decided to embrace her Jewish 
background and that she was 
studying to have a bat mitzvah. 
She also said she was doing a 
Netflix stand-up comedy special 
called My Black Bat Mitzvah. 
Well, the special was slipped on 
to the Netflix schedule without 
much publicity. It began stream-
ing on Haddish’
s 40th birthday, 
Dec. 3. 
The special opens with 
Haddish, in a big chair, being 
carried on to the stage as “Hava 
Nagila” plays. Haddish then tells 
the audience that she is Jewish 
and her dad was a Jew from 
Africa. Also on Dec. 3, Haddish 
had a big bat mitzvah cere-
mony and party at the Beverly 
Hills Hotel. Sarah Silverman’
s 
sister, Rabbi Susan Silverman, 
presided. Guests included 
Sarah Silverman, 49, and Billy 
Crystal, 71. 
The Truth Be Told, a 10-epi-
sode series on the new Apple 
(Plus) TV app, started on Dec. 
6. Octavia Spencer stars as a 
popular true crime podcaster 

who helped convict a man (Aaron 
Paul) of the murder of the father 
of identical twins. Years later, 
she’
s moved to research whether 
he was framed, as he claims. 
Lizzy Caplan, 37, co-stars, play-
ing both the identical twins.
 A special episode of the hit 
TV series Elena of Avalor, titled 
“Festival of Lights,” first aired on 
the Disney Channel on Dec. 6. 
There are many encore showings 
and its available on-demand. 
Elena is an animated series 
about the crown princess of a 
mythical Latino kingdom. During 
the episode, Elena learns about 
the Chanukah celebration and 
its importance to the Jewish 
community.
Rebeca (who is Disney’
s first 
Jewish princess) is voiced by 
Jamie Lynn Sigler, 38 (Meadow 
Soprano on The Sopranos). 
Sigler’
s Latina mother was 
born in Cuba and converted to 
Judaism before marrying her 
American Jewish father. Tovah 
Feldshuh, 67, voices Miriam. 
 A 2013 profile of series 
creator Craig Gerber in the 
Israeli paper Ha’
aretz says he 
is a practicing Jew with a child 
(then) in a Jewish day school. 
Gerber recently said that the 
Elena Chanukah episode would 
help showcase the diversity of 
Latin and Hispanic cultures (in 
other words, there are Latino 
Jews). He added, “As we were 
coming up with ideas for the new 
holiday episode, we decided to 
focus on Chanukah and a part 
of the culture that we hadn’
t yet 
represented on the show.” 

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