Danielle Berrin

Barbra Streisand expected to perform publicly in Israel for the first time

Published on May 20, 2013

A German reporter walks into Cannes… and asks an arcane question about Jewish humor

Published on May 19, 2013

Railing against good wives

Published on May 2, 2013

Marianne Williamson’s religious revolution

Published on April 24, 2013

Stephen Chbosky: filmmaker of conscience

Published on April 23, 2013

Movie nostalgia for Lansing and Landau at Israel Film Festival’s opening night

Published on April 23, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg: modern prophet

Published on April 18, 2013

Should Anthony Weiner get a second chance?

Published on April 16, 2013

The shame of silence

Published on April 12, 2013

At least one person is defending the ‘top rabbis list’

Published on April 10, 2013

No place like home: Salvador Dali, Victor Hugo, Paris and the Jews

Published on April 7, 2013

Roger Ebert’s religion

Published on April 4, 2013

To be or not to be: The story behind Newsweek/Daily Beast’s top rabbis list

Published on April 1, 2013

Philip Roth — still (a)roused

Published on March 28, 2013

Oscar’s big Jewish joke

Published on February 25, 2013

Academy’s doc night focuses on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Published on February 23, 2013

Hollywood’s history lesson: What counts when truth gets in the way

Published on February 19, 2013

Jack Paley: Celebrity chef

Published on February 19, 2013

The film projectionist you wish you knew

Published on February 7, 2013

Amy Ziering’s visible war against military rape

Published on February 6, 2013

L.A.‘s mayoral candidates court Jews and Hollywood

Published on January 31, 2013

Aaron Swartz: martyr or mascot?

Published on January 30, 2013

Music exec Ron Fair talks industry, Israel and his Yiddish Theatre heritage

Published on January 25, 2013

A word on writing from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Published on January 21, 2013

A little something on ‘Girls’ (and boys)

Published on January 20, 2013

Mining Mickey Cohen: L.A.‘s Jewish ‘Gangster Squad’

Published on January 17, 2013

Mel Brooks and Philip Roth on Jewishness, work and love

Published on January 15, 2013

Girls and government win at the Golden Globes

Published on January 14, 2013

Spielberg’s year? ‘Lincoln’ nabs 12 Oscar nominations

Published on January 10, 2013

The Torah of Les Misérables

Published on January 9, 2013

A Hollywood guide to the Israeli election

Published on January 9, 2013

Herman Wouk, ever faithful

Published on January 8, 2013

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ torture debate obscures bigger issues (Part 2)

Published on January 7, 2013

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ torture debate obscures bigger issues

Published on January 7, 2013

Even in Hollywood, Noah’s Ark survives a flood

Published on January 3, 2013

Ashton Rosin: Bearing witness on campus

Published on January 3, 2013

When author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was recently asked if he feared future generations might forget the Holocaust once the last surviving witnesses had perished, he answered that he had quelled his anxiety over this problem with a simple dictum: “To listen to a witness,” he said, “is to become one.”

Judd Apatow’s big Jewish (Journal) moment

Published on December 20, 2012

The Elon Gold standard

Published on December 19, 2012

Wonder Wall

Published on December 14, 2012

Miracles at the movies

Published on December 14, 2012

Jewish celebs light up [Chanukah VIDEO]

Published on December 10, 2012

FIDF show goes on without Stevie Wonder [VIDEO]

Published on December 7, 2012

Near silence after Stevie Wonder cancels FIDF performance

Published on December 4, 2012

Why is Haim Saban silent about Stevie Wonder canceling on FIDF gala for Israeli soldiers?

Published on November 29, 2012

Bill Maher on Israel, uncut and uncensored

Published on November 29, 2012

Rabbi Gordis v. Rabbi Brous: Rabbis in the ring

Published on November 29, 2012

Did Stevie Wonder succumb to Israel haters?

Published on November 29, 2012

DIY philanthropy

Published on November 20, 2012

Six months ago, when Michal Taviv-Margolese started working as the Western Regional director for AMIT, a nonprofit operator of 108 schools in Israel, she started thinking more seriously about charity.

When Reiner met Moses

Published on November 20, 2012

Barbra Streisand and Leonard Cohen: Timeless, but not ageless

Published on November 16, 2012

‘Paths of Glory’ and Kubrick’s faith in man

Published on November 11, 2012

Israel Film Festival and Hollywood: A match made in Heaven

Published on November 8, 2012

By now it has become a celebrated fact that the Israeli creative industry is in the throes of a modern renaissance. This makes the annual Israel Film Festival — set to roll out the red carpet for its 27th year next March — a gift to Los Angeles and its two-week film program an anticipated moment on the city’s cultural calendar.

Esther Perel seeks the erotic life

Published on November 8, 2012

True blue Hollywood: movie stars and moguls on election night 2012

Published on November 6, 2012

Israel Film Festival gets in gear

Published on November 2, 2012

Barbra Streisand to American Jewish voters: I trust President Obama

Published on November 2, 2012

Ephemera

Published on October 31, 2012

Q&A with Argo’s Brandon Tabassi

Published on October 31, 2012

Madonna’s Malala strip-stunt

Published on October 26, 2012

If Leonard Cohen were the messiah

Published on October 25, 2012

A fuss about ‘The Forsyte Saga’

Published on October 25, 2012

Laura Ziskin: Breasts and blockbusters

Published on October 24, 2012

Steven Spielberg overcomes his demons

Published on October 23, 2012

The Other Son

Published on October 18, 2012

Jewish Entertainment Network: Members of the Tribe only

Published on October 17, 2012

A missed opportunity to meet Brad Pitt

Published on October 15, 2012

Justice shall you pursue

Published on October 11, 2012

The proper way to end an affair

Published on October 7, 2012

Sherry Lansing’s encore career

Published on October 3, 2012

One L.A. party raises $7 million for Israel Defense Forces

Published on September 27, 2012

It could well be a happy new year for Israel’s military, as their friends on the West Coast just raised a bundle for Israeli soldiers through the organization Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). At a Western Region summer party hosted by real estate entrepreneur Daniel Mani and his wife, Tsipi, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) came one step closer to realizing a longtime dream of constructing “a city of training bases” in the Negev.

Can Arnold Schwarzenegger save Washington politics?

Published on September 27, 2012

Politics, gender and Jewishness loom large at Emmys

Published on September 23, 2012

Hillel Tigay: The Rock Cantor

Published on September 19, 2012

High Hollywood Treatment

Published on September 16, 2012

The Hollywood treatment

Published on September 12, 2012

“Fundamentally, your job is not that different from my job,” screenwriter Alex Litvak told a room full of rabbis assembled at American Jewish University for the annual High Holy Days conference sponsored by the Board of Rabbis of Southern California.

A filmmaker’s stunt implicating Jews heard ‘round the Middle Eastern world

Published on September 12, 2012

Deconstructing David Geffen

Published on September 11, 2012

Like ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’? You’ll love Judaism

Published on August 29, 2012

Super mogul Kathy Ireland the new super model for Israel

Published on August 22, 2012

L.A. Times they are a changin’: Homage to Patrick Goldstein

Published on August 22, 2012

Super mogul Kathy Ireland is the new super model for Israel

Published on August 22, 2012

In the ever-unwinnable image war, maybe what Israel needs is a Cover Girl.

The joy and pain of being celebrity Charles Dickens

Published on August 10, 2012

Joan Rivers’s smart retort to the ADL

Published on August 10, 2012

Never trust a writer?

Published on August 9, 2012

Long live the Reds? The unlucky legacy of the Hollywood blacklist

Published on August 8, 2012

Too often these days we hear the tireless phrase “They just don’t make ’em like they used to” when it comes to the movies.

Long live the Reds? The unlucky legacy of the Hollywood blacklist

Published on August 8, 2012

A Jewish shade in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Published on August 3, 2012

Joan Juliet Buck’s muddled mea culpa over Asma al-Assad profile

Published on July 31, 2012

Anne Frank’s Hollywood dreams

Published on July 30, 2012

Jonah Lehrer resigns from The New Yorker after admitting fabrications

Published on July 30, 2012

The spiritual evolution of Bruce Springsteen

Published on July 29, 2012

Dark Night: The dangers of movie violence

Published on July 26, 2012

No one foresaw that a more sinister evil than the fictional Bane would appear at a screening of the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Dark night: The dangers of movie violence

Published on July 25, 2012

Hollywood Horror Night: Responses to the ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ massacre

Published on July 22, 2012

Against the Holocaust: Anna Breslaw’s juvenile gaffe

Published on July 19, 2012

Is Caitlin Moran the next Nora Ephron?

Published on July 18, 2012

A small glimpse into Aaron Sorkin’s Jewish story

Published on July 17, 2012

Celebrity Schadenfreude: Hating on the stars

Published on July 11, 2012

On the flight back from a recent trip to Italy, I took a slight flight risk and decided to watch Madonna’s critically maligned movie “W.E.” Since I had not heard a single positive thing about it (save for Andrea Riseborough’s performance as Wallis Simpson) I was not particularly excited about my choice.

Celebrity Schadenfreude (print version)

Published on July 11, 2012

No business like the news business: Aaron Sorkin on ‘Newsroom’

Published on July 6, 2012

Aaron Sorkin, the playwright, television writer and Oscar-winning screenwriter of “The Social Network,” is causing a stir with his new HBO series, “The Newsroom,” about the inside antics of a cable news show and its commentary on American journalism.

Celebrity Schadenfreude: Hating on the stars

Published on July 6, 2012

No business like the news business: Aaron Sorkin on ‘Newsroom’

Published on July 5, 2012

Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce teaches a lesson in love

Published on July 5, 2012

Does JDate care about Jewish weddings?

Published on June 20, 2012

Is the heart of Israeli cinema in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?

Published on June 20, 2012

A rare interview with Woody Allen

Published on June 14, 2012

‘The Tools’: Spirituality for screenwriters

Published on June 13, 2012

Bashar al-Assad’s secret weapon

Published on June 13, 2012

Yoni Netanyahu: The heart and mind of a hero

Published on June 13, 2012

Letter from the Negev: Desert Wine

Published on June 4, 2012

Letter from Tel Aviv: Borders and boundaries

Published on June 2, 2012

Simon Wiesenthal Center honors uber-producer Jerry Bruckheimer

Published on May 24, 2012

Because we Cannes, Cannes, can’t?

Published on May 23, 2012

Self-Love for Y-Love

Published on May 23, 2012

It’s finally clear why I saw ‘Titanic’ nine times

Published on May 22, 2012

Are European actresses more sensual than American ones?

Published on May 22, 2012

Palme d’Or for ‘Amour’?

Published on May 22, 2012

Gabby Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly on marriage after assassination attempt [Q & A]

Published on May 20, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg ties the knot

Published on May 19, 2012

Israel’s first brother believes in happy endings: Q & A with Iddo Netanyahu

Published on May 19, 2012