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Albert Brooks in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 2015. Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock.

Filmmaker and comedian Albert Brooks subject of classmate Rob Reiner film

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Actor and film movie director Rob Reiner told the entertainment paper Variety that he is working on a new documentary about Jewish comedian, filmmaker and actor Albert Brooks. Reiner, son of the late Jewish actor, director, screenwriter and comedian...
Actor Will Smith slaps Chris Rock, fellow actor, comedian and host of the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 27, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish comedians react to Academy Awards ‘slap heard round the world’

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When Will Smith jumped up on stage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night to approach fellow comedian and actor Chris Rock, the host of the show, many in the audience assumed it was...
Producer Ivan Reitman his wife, actress Genevieve Robert, at the Los Angeles premiere of “Ghostbusters” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif. Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.

Ivan Reitman, ‘Ghostbusters’ director and son of Holocaust survivors, dies at age 75

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Jewish producer and director Ivan Reitman died in his sleep on Saturday night at his home in Montecito, Calif., at the age of 75, his family told The Associated Press. “Our family is grieving the unexpected...
Mila Kunis. Credit: Tinseltown/Shutterstock.

Mila Kunis among 200 stars who sign letter rejecting cultural boycott of Israel

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More than 200 celebrities and leaders in the entertainment industry signed a letter rejecting a cultural boycott of the Tel Aviv LGBTQ+ film festival. The open letter, an initiative by Creative Community for Peace, comes in...
Jason Isaacs. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Harry Potter’ star narrates new Holocaust documentary for British students

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A new Holocaust documentary narrated by British actor and “Harry Potter” star Jason Isaacs debuted this week for students in the United Kingdom. Holocaust Learning UK commissioned the hour-long film “Out of the Darkness,” which features the testimony...
Robert Kraft, winner of the 2019 Genesis Prize, at the award ceremony in Jerusalem on June 20, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Dumbing down the ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’

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Did the Jewish people really need their own Nobel Prize? To the three wealthy Russian Jewish business “oligarchs” who endowed the Genesis Prize with $50 million in contributions, the answer was “yes.” The Genesis Prize...
Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., “You in a Pew” fundraising campaign. Source: Instagram.

Sixth & I to fill seats with celebrities (sort of) for virtual High Holidays...

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Members of the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, D.C., will be able to sit next to Jewish celebrities, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, during High Holidays services next month. Kind...
Beyoncé performing at Wembley Stadium in London in July 2016. Credit: Wikipedia.

Beyoncé dons Israeli designers’ creations for mega visual album

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Beyoncé has done it again, producing a visual album called Black Is King and sending the world into an absolute frenzy. That’s good news for the Israeli designers featured in it, and whose creations—the word “clothes” won’t...
Philadelphia NAACP president Rodney Muhammad. Source: Screenshot.

The community-relations outreach trap

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Maybe everything would be better if we could all go for walks in the woods with people who say or tweet hateful and deeply offensive things. Then again, maybe the Jewish community would be...
Rapper Jay Electronica. Credit: Abdul Aziz/Wikimedia Commons.

Rapper Jay Electronica calls rabbi a ‘coward’ and ‘devil’

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Rapper Jay Electronica called Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and director of global social action of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a “coward” and a “devil” following the rabbi’s appearance last week on the podcast hosted by...