Day 764 - Jordan Hoffman reviews 'Nuremberg'
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman.
The duo beta-tests their soon-to-be-launched podcast series — so new it does not yet have a name — in which they will deliver entertainment news from a Jewish angle (aka Jangle) and review one new or noteworthy film.
This week, in episode zero, the pair first discusses the growing boycott of Israeli filmmakers at international festivals. Hoffman weighs in on how this is misfiring when it comes to some of the more prominent -- and very left-wing -- Israeli artists.
Next, we hear about "Nuremberg," the Hollywood treatment of the Nuremberg Trials, which began in November 1945, launching the field of international law.
In the film, psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) is ordered to evaluate whether Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) is fit to stand trial. As the highest-ranking surviving Nazi military commander, to the Allied lawyers, Göring is the "big fish" that must be landed.
Borschel-Dan and Hoffman give their differing opinions of the movie and agree to disagree.
And so this week, we ask Jordan Hoffman, what matters now.
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IMAGE: Jordan Hoffman (courtesy) / Rami Malek and Russell Crowe attend the 'Nuremberg' AFI Fest red carpet premiere screening at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 24, 2025, in Hollywood, California. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Sony Pictures Classics/AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's What Matters Now. I'm your host deputy editor, Amanda Borscheldon, |
| 0:09.4 | here with our film reviewer, Jordan Hoffman, for a pilot episode of our new podcast, which we have not yet quite named. |
| 0:19.7 | So, Jordan, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:22.1 | Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 0:24.1 | It's a pleasure to be here on the unnamed episode zero of the soon-to-be-figured-out podcast |
| 0:30.3 | that we're still making up as we go along. |
| 0:32.6 | It's so true. |
| 0:33.6 | We are, but here's the premise. |
| 0:35.5 | And let's just spell it out for our listeners, our viewers, |
| 0:38.7 | right away. And essentially, you are an expert on all things film and most things Hollywood and |
| 0:45.5 | Jewish. And I know basically nothing because I never have a chance to watch anything. And so |
| 0:50.9 | the concept is that we're both going to watch the same thing every week and talk about it, each from our own expert or extremely in expert perspectives. |
| 1:02.0 | Right. You nailed it. That's terrific. I mean, basically, you know, I've been doing this job. I've been writing about film and television and entertainment professionally since 2007. So that's |
| 1:13.7 | we're getting close to 20 years. I've been writing for Times of Israel since I believe |
| 1:19.8 | 2014. I believe that was my first. That sounds about right. My first freelance assignment and, |
| 1:26.9 | you know, have been interviewing celebrities and writing about films, always from a how does this affect, you know, how does this, is it good for the Jews, you know, basically has been the perspective. |
| 1:41.0 | And that could be about a serious documentary about, you know, |
| 1:45.0 | Israeli politics or, you know, a historical film, but also a movie like Superman, which is, |
| 1:51.5 | of course, as you can read in the piece I wrote about Superman this summer, you know, |
| 1:57.0 | the authors of the original Superman wrote it as an allegory for their Jewish upbringing. |
| 2:02.3 | And, you know, so always kind of looking at it from that lens. But also, you know, if a movie's got Natalie Portman in it and it's got nothing to do with Jews, but she's Jewish. So we like to know what she's up to. That's kind of how we've been doing it for Times of Israel. And that's what I think we're going to do here, |
| 2:18.2 | a mix of big Hollywood stuff, a mix of very serious political stuff from all, you know, |
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