54 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019
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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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