Sean Penn lobbies for Charedi man imprisoned in Bolivia

Published on May 21, 2013

Actor Sean Penn urged a congressional hearing to pressure Bolivia to release a haredi Orthodox father of five under house arrest in the country.

Israeli Actress Liraz Charhi in “Fair Game” [VIDEO]

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on November 3, 2010

Fairness not just a game for director

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 27, 2010

Director Doug Liman’s Manhattan home is adorned with more than a dozen photographs and even a painting of his late father, the legendary Jewish attorney Arthur Liman.

‘Milk’ captures doomed life of gay, Jewish politician

Published on December 10, 2008

The San Francisco County supervisor, who was murdered in his City Hall office in 1978, enjoyed conversing in Yiddish with Sharyn Saslafsky, who would come into his camera store in San Francisco's Castro district as a customer or just to shmooze.

Jews Flop in Big Oscar Award Wins

By Tom Tugend
Published on March 4, 2004

The 76th Academy Awards brought much cheer to New Zealand, home of the 11 Oscar-winning "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," but little to ethnocentric Jews.

There was a dollop of consolation in the best actor win for Sean Penn, son of the late Jewish television director Leo Penn. The elder Penn was the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and the son of Russian and Lithuanian immigrants, whose surname, Piñon, was anglicized at Ellis Island.

Spectator

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 16, 1997

Actors Leo Penn and Eileen Ryan are husband and wife and the starsof Graham Reid's "Remembrance" at the Odyssey Theatre. And their son,Sean, the movie star and director, has put up much of the money to bring them together onstage for the first time in 40 years.