Gazing off with determination, or even a glimmer of hope on the cover, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, along with the “Spirit of Ukraine,” is the Time Person of the Year, joining an exclusive list of notable people and an even shorter list of Jews. Throughout...

This past Dec. 2 marked the 40th anniversary of Marty Feldman’s death. Of the dozen or so people I’ve recently informed of this factoid, most had the same reaction — a slightly confused expression, followed by some variation of “Really? He’s...

Like any truly great art movement, Hallmark’s foray into Hanukkah holiday movies has proceeded by fits and starts. When the Christmas content giant released its first Jewish movie in 2019, they couldn’t even squeeze the word “Hanukkah” into the...

NEW YORK (JTA) —  Fat may be a dirty word now, but we can chart the history of American Jews through the fats they’ve used to fry their Chanukah latkes. Early immigrants relied on goose fat, which was replaced by chicken fat, which was eclipsed by...

Philanthropist and real estate developer Michael Staenberg, the namesake of the Staenberg Family Complex, appeared on Fox 2's morning news broadcast with an update on the upcoming slate of major music shows coming to The Factory in the coming weeks. According...

I’m always surprised when friends say they can’t be bothered to make homemade latkes for Hanukkah. Takeout latkes or latkes from the frozen foods section or a mix never taste as good as latkes made from scratch. There’s nothing like a golden...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox.   Farha, the debut feature film of Jordanian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam, made headlines even before it...

The St. Louis Jewish Film Festival is four months away, but we've just learned of one special film that will be among those showcased. "The Levys of Monticello" is a documentary film by Steven Pressman, who has previously directed two Holocaust-related...

(JNS) “Today, Theodor Herzl is best known for his beard, not his books,” laments Gil Troy, editor of “The Zionist Writings of Theodor Herzl,” in his introductory essay to a new edition of Herzl’s diaries. Troy, a professor of history at Canada’s...

There’s a new movie coming out called Cocaine Bear about a bear who consumes cocaine and goes on a killing spree. The sages predicted this. Sort of. In the Talmudic tractate Bava Kamma, 15b, which deals with liability and torts, the bear is named...