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Actress Arleen Sorkin at an event sponsored by the National Breast Cancer Coalition in 2011. Credit: Kathy Hutchins via Wikimedia Commons.

Actress Arleen Sorkin of daytime TV fame dies at 67

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After fighting multiple sclerosis for a decade, the disease took the life of 67-year-old Jewish film and television actress Arleen Sorkin on Aug. 24. Playing Calliope Jones Bradford in the daytime soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” Sorkin served...
Actors Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher and Sam Worthington at the Zoe Saldana Star Ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on May 3, 2018. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock.com.

Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher put up guest house for free on Airbnb

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The Torah repeatedly notes the importance of “welcoming the stranger.” That’s just what Jewish actress Mila Kunis and her Kabbalah-practicing actor-husband Ashton Kutcher plan to do. Kutcher told his 5.2 million Instagram followers last week that he...
Mark Margolis at the movie premiere of “Noah” at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City in 2014. Credit: Kristin Callahan via Wikimedia Commons.

Celebrated character actor Mark Margolis dies at 83

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Most recently bringing to life the unforgettable crime boss Hector Salamanga in 22 episodes of “Better Call Saul” and eight episodes of its predecessor “Breaking Bad,” Jewish actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of...
Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G speaking to the Harvard class of 2004 in front of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass. June 9, 2004. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen to revive comedic persona Ali G

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As the Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character would say: “Booyakasha!” The dim-witted, “hip-hop journalist” Ali G, who duped celebrities and politicians alike decades ago with nonsensical interview questions, will headline a new stand-up tour, Variety reported. (Someone close...
Israel Schachter with opera singer Andrea Bocelli in Tel Aviv. Credit: Courtesy.

In his philanthropic matchmaking, Israel Schachter reaches to the stars

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Driving an Aston Martin across a frozen Iceland lake. Meeting the pope. Golfing with a U.S. president. Sitting on stage during an Elton John concert. These are among the experiences—all benefiting charity—that Israel Schachter, 42,...
Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ star Paul Reubens dies at age 70

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“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing for the last six years,” a post on Paul Reubens’s Instagram account noted on Monday. “I have always felt a huge amount of...
Gal Gadot. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Gal Gadot to become first Israeli actor with Walk of Fame star

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Gal Gadot will next year become the first Israeli actor or actress to be honored with a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. “This is unbelievable. I’m so, so grateful and thankful and humbled,” said Gadot...
Artists are public figures who need audience support to succeed, making them particularly vulnerable to attacks on their character,” says author Lana Melman.

The antisemitic BDS war on celebrities

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The BDS movement has been a total failure. It has not damaged Israel’s economy, it has not turned Israel into a pariah, it has not changed Israeli policy, and it has not destroyed the Jewish state....
Photo of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra by Napoléon Sarony (1891). Credit: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, ©RMN-Grand Palais/Hervé Lewandowski.

Sarah Bernhardt still ‘immortal’ 100 years after her death

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Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s Jewish...
Actor James Caan in 1976 during the filming of “A Bridge Too Far,” on April 27, 1976. Credit: Hans Peters/Anefo via Wikimedia Commons.

James Caan, best known for role of Sonny in ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82

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Santino (“Sonny”) Corleone was a hot head whose life ended in a hail of bullets. James Caan, the Jewish actor who played the iconic role in “The Godfather,” lived much longer than that, though was...