Ever since March 17, 2017, Rachel Brosnahan's life has been different. That's the night she went from an actress to a well-known face of Hollywood overnight. Playing the lead namesake on a hit series called "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," a woman in 1958...

Ever since two shooters walked into Columbine High School in Colorado 20-plus years ago, the world has walked on eggshells during kid drop-off each day. What was once startlingly uncommon has become more common these days, and the entertainment industry...

In the 1982 film, “My Favorite Year,” the lead character, Bengie Stone, a Jewish comedy writer who worked on a fictional version of Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Show’s” is on a date, and trying to explain to his non-Jewish date, that “Jews...

Did David Berkowitz act alone? Or in other words, did the "Son of Sam" have an accomplice? Along with author and investigative journalist Maury Terry, Netflix audiences are taken back to 1977, when the Jewish sociopath (allegedly) attacked people randomly...

Gal Gadot has offered her thoughts on the current situation in Israel and Palestine, and once again her Twitter haters have responded in force. On Wednesday, the Israeli “Wonder Woman” star shared a statement on Twitter addressing the violence,...

Here's a scenario: You see two close friends fighting brutally and relentlessly. Before long, news travels and you find out it has been going on for decades or more. What do you do: get in the middle to find peace, stay away from the conflict, or try...

The ending of season 3 of “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” left our Jewish heroine in quite a pickle. Since then, we’ve all been waiting (and waiting!) to see how Miriam “Midge” Maisel, played by Golden Globe-winner Rachel Brosnahan, finds a way to redeem...

For most Jews, the entirety of Jewish belief about astrology is based on a single line in the Talmud: ein mazal l’Yisrael — there is no astrological sign for the People of Israel. It’s not real, we’ve been taught, and it’s not meant for...

This story originally appeared on MyJewishLearning.com Finding endless amusement in the brutal simplicity of no-frills slapstick, the Three Stooges are, depending on who you ask, the premier practitioners of physical comedy of their era, or the...

This story originally appeared on The Forward There is not one single moment of wit, humor or self-reflection on Van Morrison’s execrable new album, “Latest Recording Project Volume 1” (is that “Volume 1” a promise or a threat?). Morrison...

This story originally appeared on The Forward It’s been nine months since Seth Rogen agitated the Jewish community by expressing a sentiment increasingly common among his generation. You’d be forgiven for forgetting all about it. In August,...

St. Louis Jews have had a long love affair with the Three Stooges. First, not counting Joe DeRita, they are all Jews, and Joe Besser is from St. Louis, and his family still lives here. A month after its debut in 1959, KPLR TV began running Three Stooges...