In the new film “Golda,” Helen Mirren portrays Golda Meir, Israel’s first female prime minister, who faced difficult decisions in 1973 when Israel fought Arab armies in both the Sinai and Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War. Meir, known as...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The director of Netflix’s new coming-of-age comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, has a confession...

For many students in our area, school is back in session. My older son is now a senior in high school. A senior! I’m going to die. I’m going to cry, then throw up, then die, then cry some more, then run to the bathroom, then die again, and then cry....

(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League agrees with Leonard Bernstein’s family: Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in the upcoming “Maestro” biopic is not an antisemitic portrayal of the celebrated Jewish conductor. “Throughout history, Jews were...

(JNS) -- 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...

Jewish music legend Bob Dylan, 82, is bringing his "Rough and Rowdy Ways" tour to St. Louis this fall. The Stifel Theatre will host one of the 17 shows on the tour on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Tickets go on sale starting Friday, Aug. 25, at 10 a.m. Missouri...

Imagine keeping a secret for 35 years. Now imagine, through a twist of fate and modern science, that secret is revealed to the persons you most feared knowing it. Imagine what happens to your life – and to the lives of those around you – in the wake...

(JTA) — A “community note” saying falsely that Leo Frank, the victim of an antisemitic lynching in 1915, was guilty of raping and murdering a young girl appeared and disappeared several times over the weekend on X, the platform known until recently...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. The town of Mountain Dale, New York, once boasted 34 hotels and 75 bungalow colonies. Famous comedians, musicians and...

(JTA) — Bella Abzug, the feminist who burst into Congress battling for equal rights in 1970, was often caricatured in the media of her time. She was labeled “belligerent” and “bellicose Bella” in newspapers, parodied on television and shamed...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Bradley Cooper, a non-Jewish actor, is playing Leonard Bernstein — a decidedly Jewish figure — in the forthcoming...

(JTA) — Soon after Netflix dropped the first official trailer for its upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro” on Tuesday, one aspect of the film footage sparked a flurry of conversation online — and it wasn’t the preeminent Jewish conductor’s...