Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, who became the scourge of the #metoo sexual harassment movement last year, turned himself into New York City authorities this morning on what are expected to be felony rape charges.
(JTA) — Philip Roth, whose notorious novels about the sex drives of American men gave way to some of the most probing examinations of the American Jewish condition in the 20th and 21st centuries, has died.
(JTA) — Spike Lee is releasing a new “joint” in August. “BlacKkKlansman” is a buddy cop film purportedly based on real events, in which a black officer (John David Washington, of the HBO show “Ballers”) and a...
(JTA) – The French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard joined dozens of other film-industry professionals from France who vowed to boycott an event celebrating Israeli cinema.
Godard, a pioneer of the 1960s New Wave cinema and an avowed Marxist who has fought...
(JTA) — “Transparent,” the Amazon Studios television series about the Jewish transgender matriarch of a Los Angeles family, will end after its upcoming fifth season.
Actor Jeffrey Tambor, who plays the lead role of Maura Pfefferman, was fired from the series in...
(JTA) — Several artists have returned their Echo Awards in Germany to protest the award won by two rappers whose lyrics boasted of having “bodies more defined than Auschwitz inmates.”
In response to the award controversy BMG, which distributes...
(JTA) — Seth Meyers’ newborn baby boy is named Axel Strahl Meyers. The Strahl in there might sound unusual, and that’s because it’s actually a surname — one that belonged to his wife’s grandparents, who were both Holocaust survivors.
