In Her Long-Awaited Biography, Superstar Chef Ina Garten Opens up About Her Abusive Jewish...
Rachel Ringler | JTA,org
It was, I thought, a Jewish food writer’s dream assignment. Nearly four years ago, during the first autumn of the COVID...
‘White Bird’ Stars Helen Mirren as a Holocaust Survivor Who Teaches Her Grandson About...
Shira Li Bartov | JTA
In “White Bird,” a long-anticipated film about a Jewish girl who is rescued by her classmate in Nazi-occupied France, the...
Benj Pasek Becomes 8th Jew to Enter Elite EGOT Ranks after ‘Only Murders’ Emmy
Benj Pasek has become the eighth Jew to win an EGOT, taking the elite show business throne alongside his songwriting partner Justin Paul.
The duo...
‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ Funnyman Jerry Lewis’ Infamously Terrible Holocaust Movie, Is Having...
Andrew Lapin | JTA.org
In 1993 the film critic Shawn Levy was working on a biography of Jerry Lewis when, sitting down with the comedian...
Shaq Records Video in Hebrew for Israeli Kids
NBA great Shaquille O’Neal recorded a message for Israeli children whose relatives were killed or taken hostage in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, telling them...
Jason Schwartzman Plays a Cantor with a Spiritual Crisis in ‘Between the Temples’
Stephen Silver | JTA
The first sound in “Between the Temples” is a piercing blast from a shofar. Several scenes of the new film are...
Actress Gal Gadot Faces Anti-Zionist Campaign After ‘Snow White’ Trailer
The release of the trailer for Disney’s live-action remake of the classic 1937 film “Snow White” has sparked an antisemitic campaign on social media...
A ‘Bachelorette’ Contestant is the Great-great-grandson of the Last Chief Rabbi of Kovno
Jackie Hajdenberg | JTA.org
Jeremy Simon, a New York City real estate investor, was thinking of a rabbi who died during the Holocaust as he...
Nancy Spielberg: ‘We Have to Get People Back into the Theater’
When Israeli filmmaker Tal Inbar approached Nancy Spielberg with her documentary “Closed Circuit” about a deadly terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe in...
‘Stranger Things’ Star Brett Gelman Proposes to Girlfriend Ari Dayan in Jerusalem
The Western Wall and Jerusalem skyline provided the backdrop for actor Brett Gelman’s proposal to his now-fiancée musician Ari Dayan.
The couple, together since 2019,...
