Jews run Hollywood, the old cliche goes. So an outsider might find it strange that one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, Warner Bros., agreed to make a movie about one of the Jewish world’s greatest heroes with a star known for going on anti-Semitic...

Congregation B’nai Amoona is rolling out the red carpet for “Super Auction Take-2” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 29. The community is invited to attend this Hollywood-themed fundraiser, which includes two auctions, hearty appetizers, decadent desserts,...

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen received two tickets to the Academy Awards, despite threats that he would be banned if he comes dressed on the red carpet as the title character from his upcoming film. Baron Cohen announced Sunday that he would attend the awards...

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen will be banned from the Academy Awards if he arrives at the Red Carpet dressed as The Dictator, a character from his upcoming film. Paramount's awards staff said Baron Cohen would not receive his tickets to the Oscars unless he...

How important is our name to us? In the 1950s this became a question with significant repercussions during the infamous McCarthy hearings. During that period, the ostensible search for communists in the guise of un-American Activities (or today's National...

"La Habanera" is the next film in the Sandra and Mendel Rosenberg Sunday Afternoon Film Series, and will be screened at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Holocaust Museum's theatre in the Jewish Federation Kopolow Building, 12 Millstone Campus Drive.Director...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man suspected of setting a fire in a Southern California synagogue is facing 19 felony charges of burglary and arson.Dmitry Sheyko, 21, is in custody in Los Angeles, charged with the April 14 fire at Temple Israel of Hollywood, according...