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Arts and Culture

Barbara Walters retiring, Joyce Brothers dies

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (JTA) — After 37 years at ABC, Barbara Walters is calling it quits, the network announced Sunday.

“It’s time,” said Walters, 83. “I keep thinking of the line from ‘Cabaret’: ‘When I...

Ashton Kutcher heading to Israel, Adam Yauch memorialized, Amanda Bynes’ Twitter fit

By SIX DEGREES (No Bacon) STAFF

NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel next week will welcome its first big-name American visitor since Barack Obama. OK, so this time it’s the star of “Two And A Half Men” and not the ruler...

Hank Greenberg is in extra innings

By DAVID HOLZEL

(Washington Jewish Week) — “I think Hank Greenberg was the great American hero,” Washington filmmaker Aviva Kempner says. “What he did on Yom Kippur. What he faced. He was our Jackie Robinson.”

Thirteen years after the debut...

Amy Winehouse street, Beastie Boys Memoir, Segel’s hoops past with Jason Collins

By SIX DEGREES (NO BACON) STAFF

NEW YORK (6NoBacon) — Amy Winehouse’s name may live on in the streets of her hometown – literally. Residents near the late singer’s old London neighborhood have been askedto brainstorm names...

Remembering Jackie Robinson’s stand against anti-Semitism

By AMI EDEN, JTA Editor-in-chief

NEW YORK (JTA) — Moviegoers who head to the theater for the showing of “42” will see the story of how Jackie Robinson displayed legendary courage, class and talent in the face of immense pressure and racial...

Novelist Francesca Segal wins Sami Rohr Prize with ‘The Innocents’

(JTA) — Novelist Francesca Segal won the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature for her debut novel, “The Innocents.”

Segal will receive the Jewish Book Council’s first prize award of $100,000. The novel is set in modern-day London, in...

In telling story of fledgling Israeli Air Force, three filmmakers going their own way

By TOM TUGEND

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Some 65 years after a band of foreign volunteers took to the skies to ensure Israel’s birth and survival, filmmakers are racing to bring their exploits to the screen before the last of...

Seth Rudetsky returns Saturday night with pal Mullally

Seth Rudetsky, who has served as interviewer and pianist twice before in the “Broadway at NOCCA” series with Broadway legends Patti LuPone and Sutton Foster, returns this Saturday night to welcome his old friend Megan Mullally to the Lupin Auditorium...

Jewish day schooler snags date with supermodel Kate Upton

(JTA) — A Los Angeles day school student landed a prom date with supermodel Kate Upton. Jake Davidson released a YouTube video last week asking Upton to the prom at Milken Community High School in Bel Air, Calif. The video...

Streisand to perform two stadium concerts in Tel Aviv

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Barbra Streisand will perform two Tel Aviv concerts in Israel in addition to performing at the 90th birthday celebration for President Shimon Peres.

The concerts will take place June 15-16 at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium, the Israel...