Tag: Celebrities
Jewish comedians react to Academy Awards ‘slap heard round the world’
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...
Ivan Reitman, ‘Ghostbusters’ director and son of Holocaust survivors, dies at age 75
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 among 200 stars who sign letter rejecting cultural boycott of Israel
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...
‘Harry Potter’ star narrates new Holocaust documentary for British students
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...
Dumbing down the ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’
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 to fill seats with celebrities (sort of) for virtual High Holidays...
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 dons Israeli designers’ creations for mega visual album
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...
The community-relations outreach trap
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 calls rabbi a ‘coward’ and ‘devil’
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...
Users blast Madonna for posting July 4 Instagram video of Farrakhan speech
Madonna is the latest celebrity in recent days to promote Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has an extensive history of anti-Jewish rhetoric, on social media.
The superstar singer, who will turn 62 next month, posted a trailer...