Meeting Tim Burton:  From My House to His Art Show

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on May 31, 2011

Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic remarks predate DUI tape, Winona Ryder says

Published on December 16, 2010

Actor Mel Gibson made "anti-Semitic and homophobic" remarks long before he was caught on tape making those kind of comments, actress Winona Ryder said.

Stars boldly go to ‘Trek’

By Adam Wills
Published on May 1, 2009

Hollywood’s top 12 Jewish hotties?

By The Web Guy
Published on October 12, 2008

Shocking Discovery

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 29, 2006

I was cross when I arrived at The Jewish Journal on Oct. 9, 1986. I had earned a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University and had fantasized about becoming an arts writer (at least eventually) for, say, The New Yorker. Also, I was a bad Jew, having been turned off by lackluster synagogue services. So after I settled down at my Journal IBM Selectric, I was shocked to discover I liked -- no, loved -- working at a Jewish newspaper.

Winona Ryder—Girl Interrupted

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 23, 1999

At first glance, the author Susanna Kaysen and the actress Winona Ryder have little in common. Kaysen, who is in her 50s and the author of several well-received volumes, grew up upper-middle-class and Jewish in Cambridge, MA and is the daughter of an economics professor. And Ryder, the movie star, spent many of her formative years in a Northern California commune, the daughter of a Jewish hippie intellectual who often chatted around the kitchen table with poet Allen Ginsberg and LSD guru Timothy Leary.