Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(New York Jewish Week) — Freddie Roman wasn’t just a Catskills comic but a curator and preservationist of a comedy tradition born at the Jewish resorts in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains.
For years he served as dean of the Friars Club,...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — Two weeks after a Trump-supporting heckler threw a beer can at Ariel Elias at a club in New Jersey over her politics, the Jewish comedian’s fortunes took a turn for the better. A video of the incident went viral and she made her network television...
By Simi Horwitz, The Forward
• Published November 29, 2022
Barry Rosenthal’s documentary, The Jewish Jail Lady and the Holy Thief, is a mind-blowing character study. It casts its lens on addiction therapy, religion and how personal interactions are culturally informed. It touches on boardroom dynamics. Oh,...
By Jacob Kornbluh, The Forward
• Published November 29, 2022
Rapper Kanye West complained that former President Donald Trump was being controlled by Jews and invoked the Holocaust in a podcast interview Monday evening with the two white nationalists he brought to a dinner with Trump last week, Milo Yiannopoulos...
(JTA) – Indy’s going to sock it to the Third Reich once more.
The fifth movie in the Indiana Jones series will plop Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist into “a castle swarming with Nazis” in the year 1944, according to new plot details revealed...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published November 29, 2022
(JTA) — Michelle Williams is one of the only non-Jewish actors with a starring role in “The Fabelmans,” director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film based on his Jewish family.
But it turns out that Williams, who plays the Spielberg character’s...
(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series.
“Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” will be written by Yehonatan...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 25, 2022
Steven Spielberg looks back on his childhood, and when he fell in love with moviemaking, as well as his parents' marriage, in the semi-autobiographical "The Fabelmans." The story is by turns funny, touching and heartbreaking, as the son grows up, and...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published November 21, 2022
Dear Reader,
In the late 1970s, Spoede School let out at exactly 3:30 p.m. We would line up in the back and board our school buses for the ride home. I was on Bus #3, and Mr. Matt was our bus driver. Matt knew that he had exactly 30 minutes to get...
(JNS) Robert Clary, a Holocaust survivor best known as the French actor who starred in the CBS-TV series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died at his home in Los Angeles on Nov. 15 at age 96.
Family members did not provide a cause of death.
Cleary, who played...
BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
• Published November 21, 2022
Sometimes the stars really do align.
They certainly did when Jonathan Ornstein found himself in St. Louis recently to speak at the 32nd annual World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors and of the Holocaust and Descendants (WFJCSH&D) conference...
LONDON (JTA) — David Baddiel, a comedian-turned-activist against antisemitism who calls himself “one of the U.K.’s very few famous Jews,” was holding court in the basement of one of Britain’s best-known TV studios.
As a reporter headed...
