This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Before we begin, a moment of interesting l’dor v’dor. On Monday the Golden Globes nominated actor Riley Keough for...

Jewish actor Brett Goldstein is a two-time Emmy Award winner and is best known for his scene-stealing performance as the brash yet lovable Roy Kent on the Peabody-winning Apple TV+ series, “Ted Lasso.”  But, before he broke through as the onscreen,...

When six Israelis decided to make tequila in Israel, they thought their biggest mission would be convincing people that tequila made from blue agave in the Holy Land could rival the well-known and much appreciated tequilas of Mexico. After October...

This article first appeared in the Times Of Israel and is republished here with permission. Living in peace in Israel has been a challenge since the beginning of the Jewish State. Our enemies try to wipe us off this earth Because We Are Jews! Our fight...

(JTA) — Ferne Pearlstein re-watched “Life is Beautiful,” Roberto Benigni’s Oscar-winning Holocaust film, around 2015. She was working on her documentary “The Last Laugh,” which focused on the possibilities — and limits — of Holocaust humor. Pearlstein...

NEW YORK — Ilan Abecassis of Sderot is still reeling from the events of Oct. 7. That morning, he watched from the window of his home as terrorists in pickup trucks overran his city, gunning down Israelis in the streets and in their homes. In the...

(JTA) — Soon after news broke Wednesday morning of Jewish TV pioneer Norman Lear’s death at 101 years old, actors and comedians quickly took to social media to remember the titan of comedy. Tributes poured in from a who’s-who of Jewish celebrities...

The “Maestro” in the highly anticipated new biopic of that name is Leonard Bernstein, the groundbreaking Jewish-American composer and conductor who became the first American conductor to lead a major American orchestra, as well as being an innovator,...

The definition of a miracle is an extraordinary event not characterized by natural or scientific law, therefore being a supernatural act of divine agency. I didn’t know God started her own agency, but I’m super proud of her.  As we light the first...

(JTA) — Norman Lear, the Jewish TV pioneer behind iconic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s that helped bring social commentary and Black characters into the mainstream, has died at 101. Lear’s death was announced by a spokesperson for his family,...

(New York Jewish Week) — In March 2022, Jack Waksal thought he recognized Sam Ron, the keynote speaker at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual South Florida dinner in Boca Raton. But he couldn’t quite place him — after all, at 97, Waksal...

Just in time for the first night of Hanukkah, Jewish a cappella group Six13 dropped their latest and perhaps most expansive work to date, a new Hanukkah parody featuring 13 Taylor Swift tunes and a reprise of their T-Swift parody "Shake it off" from 2014. "In...