Tag: Arts & Entertainment
Israeli Film Festival in LA screens 40-plus pictures, draws 7,000 people
The 36th Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles returned in full force after a two-year hiatus.
The screenings, which ran from Nov. 13-16, drew more than 7,000 attendees to see more than 40 features, documentaries...
Netflix picks up award-winning Israeli show ‘Six Zeros’
Netflix has purchased the Israeli comedy series "Six Zeros," the first season of which aired in 2023 on Israel's public broadcasting network, Kan 11, the channel announced on Tuesday.
"Six Zeros" explores what happens when people win...
Police detain Israeli rock star for waving hostage sign at Hollywood concert
Israeli rock star Aviv Geffen was escorted out of a David Gilmour concert at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday by Los Angeles police, after failing to heed a request to take down a sign...
Jewish comedian wins Emmy for HBO special about New York sit-down with neo-Nazis
Emotion overwhelmed comedian Alex Edelman while accepting an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for his “Just for Us” HBO comedy special as part of the awards show on Sunday night.
Standing on...
‘The Bibi Files’ featuring Netanyahu interrogation screens in Toronto
"The Bibi Files" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on Monday evening. The documentary film features never-before-seen footage of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, his son Yair, and friends and associates...
‘I suggest you all do it’: Tiffany Haddish urges visiting Israel
In an Instagram Live video she shot after boarding a plane to Israel on Tuesday, actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish described the purpose of her trip, calling it “educational.”
“I need to go see for myself, I’m one of those people,”...
‘Dog, it’s a yarmulke,’ sings Ben Shapiro, ‘America’s no. 1 rapper’
"America’s no. 1 rapper," reads Ben Shapiro's X profile.
The anti-woke song "Facts" by Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald which features co-founder of The Daily Wire—clad in a gray hoodie with the words "Facts don't care about...
At Sundance, Noa Tishby shows protester ignorance of Mideast geography
At the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, actor, author and activist Noa Tishby chose some revealing questions to ask anti-Israel protesters waving flags and holding banners outside of the entertainment-oriented event that annually draws more than...
Catch the Holocaust before it disappears
If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the...
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in ‘The Bear’ wins Emmy for Best Supporting Actor
The performance of Ebon Moss-Bachrach as divorced father Richie in the TV series “The Bear” has so far collected the two top entertainment awards of the year.
On Monday, Moss-Bachrach, who is 46 and Jewish, received an...