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Arts and Culture

Matisyahu talks about his new religious outlook and appearance

By DANIEL HOFFMAN

PARIS (JTA) – Cigarette in one hand and cup of tea in the other, Matisyahu sat down with JTA in his closet-sized dressing room during his European tour to talk about his life, his music, how he’s...

Jon Stewart takes a summer break while Joan Rivers helps Israeli gay couple

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (6NoBacon) — Yuval and Liran, a gay Israeli couple, want to have a child — and they are using any help they can get, even from Hollywood. Joan Rivers and Kelly Osbourne...

Streisand to perform at birthday bash for Peres

(JTA) — Barbra Streisand will make her official performing debut in Israel at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres. Streisand is slated to perform at the opening ceremony of the Israeli Presidential Conference on June 18.

According to...

Valerie Harper, actress who played Jewish roles, diagnosed with terminal cancer

Valerie Harper, 73, the actress who famously played transplanted secular Jewish New Yorker Rhoda Morganstern on TV’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later on her own spinoff (“Rhoda”) revealed to the Today Show this morning and in an interview...

Raisman selected for ‘Dancing with the Stars’

NEW YORK (JTA) — Aly Raisman, the Jewish gymnast who won three medals at last summer’s London Olympics, is joining the celebrity cast of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

Raisman was among the cast revealed by “Good Morning America” on...

Jewish Film Fest opens in Fairbanks, Alaska

VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) — The 15th Farthest North Jewish Film Festival opened in Fairbanks, Alaska. Organizers say the festival, which began Saturday and runs through March 3, attracts mostly non-Jewish viewers from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, which sponsors the festival...

Oscar recap: Israeli films lose, Day-Lewis wins

LOS ANGELES (JTA) —  Two Israeli documentaries in contention for the Oscar for best documentary lost to the Swedish/British production “Searching for Sugar Man,” ensuring another year without an Israeli film winning a coveted golden statue.

Among the documentaries that came up...

Sacha Baron Cohen raking in the shekels

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (6NoBacon) — We pay a lot of money for Sacha Baron Cohen to make us feel uncomfortable. The Jewish London native is officially the highest paid British actor in America, according to Forbes.com, and even tops Brad Pitt...

Drake finally wins a Grammy, Mayim Bialik stops nursing, Jewish ‘Downton Abbey’ heading for TV

By SIX DEGREES (NO BACON) STAFF

NEW YORK (6NoBacon) — For Drake at the Grammys, the 10th time was the charm. The Jewish Canadian singer finally picked up his first Grammy, winning for Rap Album of the Year on Sunday in Los...

Jewish rebel pursues interracial romance in controversial Dutch film

By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The dreamy expression of a child at a chocolate factory slowly spreads across Geza Weisz’s handsome face as he watches the quivering breasts and buttocks of young black women dancing around him at an...