(JTA) – With seven nominations for his most personal film ever, this could have been Steven Spielberg’s biggest year at the Academy Awards. But the hot-dog fingers had other plans. “The Fabelmans,” the director’s highly personal dramatization...

(JTA) — ​​If you were born anytime before, say, 1975, you might remember Israel not as a source of angst and tension among American Jews but as a cause for celebration. In the 1960s and ’70s, most Jews embraced as gospel the heroic version of...

The Academy Awards are off and running and fans of Jewish film legend Jamie Lee Curtis are kvelling. Curtis, 62, won the Oscar for best supporting actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” This interesting sci-fi film posited that a person...

As a child growing up in a predominantly Protestant town, I was never heavily involved in the Jewish community, and instead chose to attend an all-girls YMCA camp five years in a row. Back at home in Rhode Island, I opted out of starting Hebrew study...

Film producer Daniel Dreifuss has only one surviving photo of a distant relative: his grandfather’s cousin, who fought for Germany in World War I and died in combat two days before the war’s end. He has a few more photos of his grandfather, who...

(JTA) — Chaim Topol won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of an immigrant to Israel, stepped off the stage in London to fight for his country and had his sketches of Israeli presidents turned into postage stamps. But the actor was by far best known...

The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 12, at 7 p.m. on ABC. Jimmy Kimmel will host. The ceremony is produced by GLENN WEISS, 61, and his professional partner, RICKY KIRSHNER, 60. Rihanna will sing at the ceremony, as will DIANE WARREN,...

Get those pre-ordering fingers ready because a Henry Winkler biography is finally coming, and we can’t wait to devour it all. The Jewish actor known as the Fonz, Dr. Saperstein, Gene Cousineau, the cutest dancing grandpa on TikTok and an...

Was the famous English Victorian novelist Charles Dickens (1812-70) a friend of the Jews? In 1912, the London-based journalist and editor Morris Meyer wrote a series of articles about Dickens. This was published in the intellectually leaning New York...

I’m definitely in need of a laugh right about now, and what do you know? Purim is here! Purim – an exceedingly joyous, fun, and humorous holiday — celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people by Queen Esther from evil Haman’s plot of genocide. Purim...

After three years of going virtual, the Jewish Community Center’s 28th Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is returning to an in-person format at the Marcus Des Peres Theater. The festival, which takes place March 12-16, will present 14 Jewish-themed...

Creator of the Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams wrote in a now-deleted blog post from 2006 that he wanted “to know how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined.” “Is it the sort of number that is so well documented with actual names...