JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli military figures and religious students are objecting to the selection of supermodel Bar Refaeli as part of an ad campaign to raise Israel’s public image.
Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces,...
It’s been almost 63 years since Kurt Weill died, yet his mark as a composer of music in his native Europe and his adopted homeland of America is still legendary. Many of his works have joined the...
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...
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...
(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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
