On the afternoon of Jan. 18, dozens of staffers at Thirteen-WNET, PBS’s flagship station in New York, shuffled into a conference room at headquarters on West 33rd Street for an address from Neal Shapiro, the station’s boss.  read more »

On Jan. 9, PBS stations around the country will begin airing a new three-part documentary called The Jewish Americans, narrated by Liev Schreiber, chronicling 350 years of the Jewish American experience of immigration and assimilation in the U.S. from the 17th century to the present.

Eleven days later, WLIW-21 will debut a sidecar documentary, called The Jews of New York.  read more »