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The exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7 in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Pugliano/Getty Images
7 Rules for Perfect Hummus
When was the last time you opened a tub of hummus and swooned? When was the last time a restaurant put a plate of hummus in front of you, and you said, “Oh my God.” Most of the hummus recipes…
Palestinians mark Nakba with West Bank protests
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the “catastrophe,” with marches and protests.
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The Office’s best Jewish moment
Funny music, sad life
On an otherwise unremarkable day in 1938, a chubby but charming student at John Burroughs Junior High in Los Angeles “cracked the code of his comic gift and discovered his…
Filmmakers reveal magician’s secretive world
A British journalist recalls how she once sat down at a cafe with the legendary magician, author, historian, actor and, perhaps, the greatest sleight-of-hand artist on the planet in the documentary…
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7 Rules for Perfect Hummus
When was the last time you opened a tub of hummus and swooned? When was the last time a restaurant put a plate of hummus in front of you, and…
Survivor: Irene Rosenberg
“Mommy, I’ll be right back.” Irene Rosenberg — then Irene Grunfeld — said as she was leaving the apartment of her cousin Mancy Weiss, where she and her mother were…
The Divine Wedding and Kiss - Parashat Naso
“O for your kiss! For your love / More enticing than wine, / For your scent and sweet name – For all this they love you. Take me away to…
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What would my Israeli grandmother think?
When I hear about the latest events in Israel – the air strikes on weapons facilities in Syria, the flare-ups over women donning prayer shawls at the Western Wall –…
A hot topic, a great panel, and chance to learn and discuss—immigration at issue
It's a critical time for immigration reform in this country. Washington is getting set to make major changes, the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1980's under President…
State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
Opening this weekend at Laemmle’s Music Hall 3 is a very hot-button new documentary called State 194, which follows the recent history of Palestine. Many will approach this film with…
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Filmmakers reveal magician’s secretive world
How ‘The Iceman’ cameth to be
Bar Paly of ‘Pain & Gain,’ Israel’s other ‘Bar’ supermodel
Michael Shannon on ‘The Iceman’ by Israeli filmmaker Ariel Vromen
Drama in a ‘Class’ of its own
David S. Goyer talks ‘Batman,’ ‘Man of Steel’
Falafel Western wrangles opening night of Israel Film Fest
Scars of Israel’s ‘Numbered’
Listening to veterans
Harvard psychologist Dr. Paula J. Caplan recalled how her Jewish father, a captain of one of the first black tank units to serve in combat in World War II, often described his recollections of the war: He spoke not only of the heroism of his men, but also of the smell of burning flesh as he passed by enemy tanks and of seeing bodies frozen on fences or blown apart by shells.
‘Da Vinci’ goes rogue in new STARZ historical fantasy
The real Jeffrey Tambor
Jeremy Piven plays a self(ridge)-made man
Comedy-drama ‘Tribes’ communicates dysfunction of British-Jewish family
Boy on HBO’s ‘Girls’ is also a ‘restless’ filmmaker
New play, “Therapy,” explores the the lives and fears of therapist
‘The Americans’ - Straighten up and spy write
Bruce Cohen: A career full of ‘Silver Linings’
Film editor William Goldenberg faces off at the Oscars with…himself
Dysfunctional first family
Bar Refaeli makes out with nerd in Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial
For David O. Russell, it takes family
Saving the ‘Life of Pi’
Play reveals naked truth behind ‘Deep Throat’
What Judd Apatow thinks of the Jewish Journal
Benh Zeitlin: Conquering his ‘Beasts’
Paul Rudd Q & A: ‘This is 40’
Judd Apatow mines midlife angst for ‘This Is 40’ [BONUS TRAILER]
Dan Fogelman Q & A: ‘The Guilt Trip’
Travis Fine on “Any Day Now”
Bette Midler: The Divine Miss Bubbe
Elie Wiesel on Oprah Dec. 9: Sneak peak Q & A [VIDEO]
‘Anything Goes’ is high jinks on the high seas
‘Coney Island’: A Christmas Story for Jews
‘Pi’ is approximately 3.1416% Jewish
Homes for homeless
Back in 2004, attorney Jerry Neuman was driving in Hollywood with his then-4-year-old son, Jake, when the boy noticed a disheveled homeless man on a bus bench beside a shopping cart of belongings. Jake asked his father where the man lived.
Mayim Bialik and Elon Gold on Obama victory
Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Antiviral’ oozes into AFI Fest
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Susan Polis Schutz explores ‘Seeds of Resiliency’
Comparing animal rights and the Holocaust
On Oct. 2, Alex Hershaft, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), sat on the ground with some 100 other protesters in front of the Farmer John pig slaughterhouse in Vernon, Calif., blocking the entrance from two bi-level trucks carrying 200 pigs that had arrived to be slaughtered that day.
The provocatively titled short film, ‘Jew’
Comparing animal rights and the Holocaust
On Oct. 2, Alex Hershaft, a Holocaust survivor and founder of the nonprofit Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), sat on the ground with some 100 other protesters in front of the Farmer John pig slaughterhouse in Vernon, Calif., blocking the entrance from two bi-level trucks carrying 200 pigs that had arrived to be slaughtered that day. In the next 24 hours, the pigs would be among 6,000 animals that would be stunned by electrical shock, hoisted up by their hind legs and their necks slit in the plant, which is the largest pig slaughterhouse on the West Coast.
An exhibition of Iranian Jews
On Sukkot, honoring the homeless
Mother’s Holocaust trauma behind David Geffen’s reluctance to discuss Jewishness
Remembering ‘One day in September’
Henry Jaglom discusses ‘Just 45 Minutes from Broadway’ [VIDEO]
Clara Mamet makes her way in the family biz
‘The Neighbors’: Aliens next door
Jeff Goldblum goes to the head of the class
Early in Theresa Rebeck’s comic play, “Seminar,” four aspiring writers cower in an Upper West Side New York apartment as Leonard (Jeff Goldblum), their imperious creative writing teacher, scans just one page of a short story before lambasting its author.
Jeff Goldblum goes to the head of the class
Actor feeds off ‘Mormon’s’ racy humor
Actor feeds off ‘Mormon’s’ racy humor
"My favorite kind of comedy is so wrong that it's right," actor Jared Gertner said. So it's fitting that he's starring in the blessedly twisted megahit musical "The Book of Mormon," which after scoring nine Tony Awards and a reputation for almost impossible-to-snag tickets has embarked on a national tour opening Sept. 5 at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.
To Kaplan brothers, ‘Silence’ is golden
Henry Jaglom’s ‘45 Minutes from Broadway’
Sam Raimi’s latest horror flick draws on ‘true’ tale, Jewish exorcism
Back in 2004, the horror-flicks mogul Sam Raimi was riveted by a Los Angeles Times article headlined “A Jinx in a Box?” which recounted the strange history of a wine cabinet brought to this country by a Polish concentration camp survivor. The box contained “allegedly, one ‘dibbuk,’ a kind of spirit popular in Yiddish folklore,” the article said — as well locks of hair, a rock, a dried rosebud, a goblet and coins.
Sam Raimi’s latest horror flick draws on ‘true’ tale, Jewish exorcism
Craig Zobel’s ‘Compliance’ and the Holocaust-inspired Milgram Experiment [VIDEO]
Rothko’s passion, tragedy galvanize Molina’s portrayal in ‘Red’
Rothko’s passion, tragedy galvanize Molina’s portrayal in ‘Red’
John Logan’s two-person play, “Red,” which spotlights the legendary Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, is set a decade before the notoriously prickly painter committed suicide in 1970. The drama, which opens at the Mark Taper Forum on Aug. 12, begins as Rothko (Alfred Molina) has accepted a hefty commission to create a series of murals for the swanky Four Seasons restaurant in New York’s iconic Seagram Building. He intends his luminous, contemplative paintings to transform the space into a “temple,” while his initially timid new assistant, Ken (Jonathan Groff), grows bolder and insists that the work will merely serve as décor for pricey boozing and dining.
‘Killer Joe’s’ William Friedkin: ‘I could have been a very violent person’ [VIDEO]
Filmmaker forges intimate portrait of artist-activist Ai Weiwei
In 2010, Alison Klayman sat in a car in Chengdu, China, with her camera rolling as the internationally renowned conceptual artist and dissident Ai Weiwei scuffled with police, who were pushing and pulling at him and his entourage. The melee had erupted as Ai was attempting to file a lawsuit against the policeman who had beaten him so severely a year earlier that he had suffered a life-threatening cranial hemorrhage, requiring surgery to remove the blood from his brain.
It’s always about sex — or is it? Ask David Frankel
“Nobody in this world thinks they’re having enough sex,” said director David Frankel, whose film “Hope Springs” spotlights a beleaguered 60-something couple played by Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones. “Watch any night on television, or any comedian in a nightclub, and every other joke is about people who aren’t getting enough. It’s true of people Meryl and Tommy’s age, and it’s true of teenagers — everybody thinks somebody else is doing it more.”
It’s always about sex — or is it? Ask David Frankel
Filmmaker forges intimate portrait of artist-activist Ai Weiwei
Hell hath no fury like a tough (Israeli) woman scorned
David Geffen: prickly and terse about his Judaism
A (Slightly) Lighter Shade of Dark with ‘Dark Horse’
A (Slightly) Lighter Shade of Dark with ‘Dark Horse’
The last time I interviewed Todd Solondz—one of independent cinema’s most acidic provocateurs—he joked that his agents were thrilled with his black comedy “Dark Horse” “because there’s no child molestation, masturbation or rape in it.”
The Exorcist
Brooke Shields, Richard Chamberlain and Teller on “Exorcist’s” demon [SLIDESHOW]
Dog ‘Guru’ Justin Silver
Dog ‘Guru’ Justin Silver puts owners on tight leash [SLIDE SHOW]
Dog ‘Guru’ Justin Silver puts owners on tight leash
When it comes to canines going to the dogs, trainer Justin Silver has seen it all: the pooch whose owner treated it like a baby, complete with diaper changes; the bulldog named Beefy who refused to take a walk unless he was schlepped down the street on a skateboard; the modeling agency owner who brought her fierce terrier mix to work every day, where it tried to attack everyone in sight. When Silver asked her how many times the mutt had bitten people, she replied, “Are you counting blood bites and non-blood bites?”
Andrew Garfield: The Jewish Spidey [SLIDESHOW]
‘The Exorcist’ at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil
William Peter Blatty was a Georgetown University student in August 1949 when he came across a front-page story in the Washington Post titled “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Blatty, a devout Catholic, was fascinated by the accounts of the 14-year-old’s bed violently shaking and torrents of curses in Latin whenever the exorcist commanded the demon to leave the boy.
‘The Exorcist’ at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil
Miri Ben-Ari performs for the president today
Alex Kurztman gets personal in ‘People Like Us’
‘That’s My Boy’ reviews: They could have been worse
Adam Shankman melds worry with chutzpah in ‘Rock of Ages’
Oh, What a Tangled ‘Web’ She Weaves
It’s all about the kids
When his late grandmother was first diagnosed with terminal cancer three years ago, Jason Aftalion was moved by the volunteers who visited her at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "I was so touched by how they talked to her and spent time with her, so she wouldn't be lonely," said Aftalion, a Persian-American senior at Milken Community High School.
Healing others, and herself
Almost every day, Marissa Meyer, an 18-year-old senior at Agoura High School, heads out to the stable where her riding teacher rehabilitates abused horses. There she works with her 15-year-old gelding, Lucky. Helping to heal him after his difficult life at a dude ranch has been one of her passions for the last seven years and has also helped spur her interest in physical therapy and sports medicine in humans.
Women in wheelchairs ‘Push’ boundaries in real life, TV
Donna Summer memories
‘The Dictator’ reviews are in, and the verdict is…
‘Hysteria’ and the invention of the vibrator [VIDEO]
Filmmaker writes from experience for post-Holocaust drama ‘Mighty Fine’
Filmmaker Debbie Goodstein has taken to heart the adage, “Write what you know.” Her 1989 Holocaust documentary, “Voices From the Attic,” recounts her mother’s years of hiding in a garret where snow descended through slats in the roof, a baby died and food was scarce.
‘The Dictator’: Top Jewish moments
Revisiting a conversation with Vidal Sassoon
Meet the filmmakers of the French megahit “The Intouchables” [VIDEO]
‘Dictator’ scribes dish on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new comedy
‘Girls’ writer lays bare women’s insecurities
Jason Segel on the universe—and ‘The Five Year Engagement’
About a dog, lost and found
Film Festival spotlights Jewish Hollywood, old and new
To screen or not to screen
[UPDATE] Gibson’s Maccabee film on hold; screenwriter calls Mel “Jew-hater,” Gibson responds
Jeffrey Dean Morgan on playing a Jewish hotelier
‘American Reunion’ scribes on A Very Harold & Kumar Passover
Schlossberg, Hurwitz Create a Heartfelt ‘Reunion’ of Raunch
Jews navigate ‘Magic City’ of midcentury Miami
Starring in ‘Godot’ ... and Remembering Beckett
Segel’s starry-eyed man-child amuses and moves us
‘American Idiot’ a very smart idea for Kitt and Green Day
Mezzo-soprano sings of ‘Color’ despite blindness
Paul Weitz on dads, De Niro and “Being Flynn”
How studio exec-turned-producer pitched ‘Moneyball’
‘Hugo’ writer Selznic talks of the magic of film
The other silent actor: Max von Sydow plays a mute in a post-9/11 story
Revisiting Jonah Hill, Oscar nominee!
‘Better Life’ producers thrilled with Demian Bichir’s Oscar nod
‘Rampart’ director brings his Israeli military service to L.A.‘s mean streets
Roseanne for president. Really.
Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland on “In Darkness” [VIDEO]
Ben Lewin’s ‘The Surrogate’ wins at Sundance, and beyond
Writer’s Guild to Honor ‘Extremely’ Talented Screenwriter Eric Roth
‘The Surrogate’ sells at Sundance—for $6 million!
Sundance: Helen Hunt as a sexual surrogate
Polio survivor’s new film explores sexual surrogacy
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