Monday, May 20, 2013

Alan Dershowitz sends ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ episode to Netanyahu

by Jana Banin, JTA

Comedian Larry David has been called a lot of things over the course of his long and successful career, but we’re pretty sure “peace maker” has. . .

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Office’s best Jewish moment

by Ami Eden, JTA

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Son of ‘Pacific Standard Time’

By Tom Teicholz

It’s back! Remember long ago in those dark days of 2011, when “Pacific Standard Time,” the Getty-sponsored initiative, got more than 60. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

‘Arrested Development’ season 4 arrives

by Jana Banin, JTA

In less than two weeks the fourth season of “Arrested Development” premieres on Netflix. It’s been seven very long years since the last. . .

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy after discovering ‘Jewish gene’

JTA

Actress Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after discovering that she had the breast cancer gene common to Ashkenazi Jewish women.

Monday, May 13, 2013

TV psychologist Joyce Brothers dies at 85

Reuters

Psychologist Joyce Brothers, who parlayed winning the "The $64,000 Question" TV game show in 1955 into a nearly six-decade career as a television. . .

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Amanda Bynes melts down on Twitter

JTA

Just a day after tweeting lingerie-clad selfies, former Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes star posted an even louder cry for attention (and help?):. . .

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

‘Mazel Tov’: Lifecycles of the Rich and Famous

By Jay Firestone

“Entourage” star Jeremy Piven remembers his bar mitzvah as “a rite of passage.”

Monday, April 15, 2013

Anne Frank House defends Bieber’s visit, guestbook entry

JTA

The Anne Frank House defended Justin Bieber's visit to the museum and his guestbook message hoping that the teen diarist "would have been a Belieber."

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

‘Mad Men’s’ Jewish factor

by Chavie Lieber, JTA

Advertising, it’s fair to say, is in Ben Feldman’s blood.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Ang Lee doing TV

by Marcy Oster, JTA

Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee will tackle television for the first time, directing a pilot for a show written by the Israeli writer who. . .

Monday, April 8, 2013

‘Ichilov’: Life behind the stethoscope

by Marcy Oster, JTA

Move over "Grey's Anatomy," an Israeli reality series set in a Tel Aviv hospital is providing a look at life through the eyes of overworked and. . .

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters pulls out of New York Y event

JTA

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, who supports a boycott of Israel, pulled out of a speaking engagement at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Spider-Man movie changes filming schedule due to Passover

JTA

The filming schedule of “The Amazing Spider Man 2” has changed in response to a request made by the haredi Orthodox community of Williamsburg.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Streisand to perform two stadium concerts in Tel Aviv

JTA

Barbra Streisand will perform two Tel Aviv concerts in Israel in addition to performing at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Oren says ‘Gatekeepers’ makes his job harder

JTA

Israel's U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, said the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" complicates his mission.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Is the Newsweek rabbis list good for the Jews?

by Danielle Berrin, Staff Writer | Graphics by Jonah Lowenfeld, Staff Writer

One night some years ago, two powerful Jewish men in media, one from New York and one from Los Angeles, were walking together through the streets of. . .

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Jon Stewart to take summer break

JTA

Jon Stewart is stepping down from his throne at Comedy Central this summer to direct a film based on a screenplay he wrote.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Spielberg directs kids to ‘iWitness’ history

By Tom Tugend

In a video, a Holocaust survivor remembers how he had to kill the family dog as he faced deportation to a wartime ghetto, where there would not be. . .

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Reflecting on 20 years of ‘Schindler’

By Tom Tugend

If Hollywood were a monarchy, Steven Allan Spielberg would likely be its king.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Actress Bonnie Franklin dies of pancreatic cancer at 69

Actress and humanitarian Bonnie Franklin, died at her home on March 1 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 69.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Ventura Film Fest remembers Sally Davis, celebrity journalist

By Tom Tugend

The Ventura Jewish Film Festival, opening March 9, will range across the Jewish world, from Ireland to Israel, and, in time, from the 19th century to. . .

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Three films to focus on Israeli Air Force

By Tom Tugend

Some 65 years after a band of foreign volunteers fought in the skies above Israel to assure the nation’s birth and survival, filmmakers are racing. . .

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Michael Moore intervenes to help Palestinian filmmaker attend Academy Awards

JTA

Director and activist Michael Moore intervened to help Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat enter the United States to attend the Academy Awards. . .