New Jewish card-game comedy 'Yaniv' is worth the gamble: review

New Jewish card-game comedy 'Yaniv' is worth the gamble: review

When a Jewish public school teacher in the Bronx loses funding for the high school musical, he turns to an unlikely solution: raising $10,000 by gambling in an underground Hasidic card ring. But the twist in the sharp new comedy “Yaniv” is that the game at the center of the action isn’t poker or blackjack — it’s Yaniv, a fast-paced Israeli card game rarely seen on screen. To pull it off, the teacher recruits a friend who’s far better at cards an…