Tag: Arts & Entertainment
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...
US actor Michael Rapaport appears in Israeli satirical show
American-Jewish actor Michael Rapaport arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning to appear in the satirical show Eretz Nehederet.
Since the brutal Hamas attack on southwestern Israel on Oct. 7, Rapaport, who is known for his portrayal...
Film in Chattanooga Jewish screening refers to ‘Occupied West Bank’
The 16th annual Chattanooga Jewish Film Series, hosted by the Jewish Federation in the southeastern Tennessee city, began on Wednesday evening.
Titles featured include the 1941 Holocaust escape drama “Farewell Mr. Haffman,” the musical drama “Love Gets...
New ‘Blossom’ reboot to shift show from sitcom to drama
Fans concerned about the fate of Mayim Bialik after her writers-strike-inspired departure from hosting the quiz show “Celebrity Jeopardy!” need not worry: In development is a new project returning to the cast of “Blossom,” the 1990s...
Canada’s largest museum to change Palestinian ‘dispossession’ exhibit texts
The exhibition "Being and Belonging," on view through Jan. 7 at the Royal Ontario Museum, features artworks by contemporary women artists "from the Islamic world and beyond," per the museum website, which hails the...
Manouchehr Bibiyan, Iranian entertainment producer and ‘proud Jew,’ dies at 90
Manouchehr Bibiyan, a pioneering Iranian-American Jewish entertainment producer and political activist died on Aug. 27 in Los Angeles. He was 90 years old.
Bibiyan became Iran’s first and most successful modern pop-music recording producer, having...