Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Shtisel,” the popular series following the lives of a tight-knit ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem, is changing its U.S. home.

The Shtisel universe is expanding. The smash Israeli series about the trials and tribulations of an orthodox Jewish family is being handed a prequel titled Kugel, following Libi Shtisel in Belgium ...

Fremantle, IZZY, Abot Hameiri and YES have entered into a partnership for the new drama series Kugel, a spin-off of Shtisel. The deal will see Kugel launch on the global streaming platform IZZY in ...

Unlike the series’s creators and directors, Elon and Indursky, the actors in Shtisel do not stem from religious backgrounds, yet in their inhabitation of ultra-Orthodox dress, speech and mannerisms, ...

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The Iraqi-born actor, who plays the Yiddish-speaking Nuhem, will appear live at a New York Jewish Week event later this month. “I’m preparing a tea so we can talk with leisure,” Sasson Gabay says over ...

The popular drama Shtisel is now in its third season on streaming giant Netflix. The series, which revolves around the ultra Orthodox Jewish Shtisel family, might seem an unlikely hit but that it is, ...

“Shtisel,” the Israeli series about an Ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Haredi community, has been a worldwide hit since it premiered its first season on Netflix in 2018, five years after its ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ori Elon, writer and co-creator of Shtisel, is currently working on a biographical mini-series about Austrian-Jewish journalist and playwright Theodor Herzl, who played a significant role ...

The Israeli series set in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem will be remade in Turkey, featuring a fundamentalist Muslim community. This is an opportunity to fill a gap, since the only ...