Jeffrey Shandler and Updated by Pete Smith
• Published August 15, 2022
For a generation of Americans, Gertrude Berg embodied Jewish motherhood in a series of radio, television, stage, and film performances. She is best remembered as the creative force behind the Goldbergs, a fictitious Jewish family who lived in an...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Philip Kives, was a Canadian marketing prodigy whose company K-tel International pioneered the business of “as-seen-on-TV” infomercials.
The son of Eastern European immigrants who settled in a Jewish agricultural colony in Saskatchewan,...
(New York Jewish Week) — Hundreds of tourists and midtown office workers cross the intersection of 39th Street and Broadway every day — and most probably don’t realize they are passing a crucial site of Jewish, LGBTQ and theater history.
That...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published May 25, 2022
Monty Hall, the friendly and engaging host of the long-running television game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” was, a dual American and Canadian citizen who was born Monte Halparin in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba to Orthodox Jewish parents,...
American singer Adam Levine from pop-rock band Maroon 5 took a tour of the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday in the lead up to two concerts in Tel Aviv this week.
The LA-based band will be performing at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv on Monday and an...
Jeanne Scheper, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 20, 2022
(JWA) -- Libby Holman was known as much for her scandalous personal life and revolutionary activism as for her lush voice. Holman moved to New York to become an actress and singer. She performed her first major role in 1925 in The Sapphire Ring and continued...
This article originally appeared on The Nosher.
Many home cooks this past year, in an Instagram-inspired spirit, upped their challah-baking game with new braiding patterns, interesting flavors and vibrant colors. Yet it was a more standard ingredient...
Deborah Schneider, Jewish Women's Archive
• Published March 30, 2022
(JWA) -- Long before her final role as the grouchy bailiff on Night Court, Selma Diamond earned a reputation behind the scenes as a brilliant, salty comedy writer for some of the best shows on radio and television.
Diamond began writing jokes...
TEAM JONJ, JEWORNOTJEW.COM
• Published March 9, 2022
It’s a right of Jewish passage to wonder who out there in the world is Jewish too, especially famous people like actors, singers, athletes, and even social media stars and YouTubers. It’s just something we do.
So, to better answer the question...
Jordan Palmer and Bob Cohn
• Published March 8, 2022
If there had been a local Jewish version of the National Enquirer in St. Louis back in the 1860s, the tabloid would no doubt have devoted oceans of ink to Rabbi Solomon Hirsch Sonneschein and his wife, Rosa Fassel Sonneschein, who can truly be described...
Who knew that the actor with the scarred face, who would define the onscreen tough guy stereotype of Italian mobsters was just a Jewish guy with a "Shanya Punim."
Born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund in what is now Lviv, Ukraine, Paul Muni began...
Maxie Rosenbloom was one tough Jew.
Born September 6, 1904, in Leonard’s Bridge, Connecticut, Maxie Rosenblum grew up and leaned to box in Harlem's Union Settlement in New York. He turned pro in 1923, and slowly rose up the ranks of the sport.
On...
