(JTA) — “Saturday Night Live” satirized Hillary Clinton’s campaign by having her turn into her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and depicting the candidate as claiming she is “the biggest outsider Jew in the race.”
(JTA) — A collection of more than 6,000 Bob Dylan artifacts, including a notebook with handwritten lyrics and his first music contract, is headed for the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma.
The university announced Wednesday that The Bob Dylan Archive...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A Hungarian Holocaust drama, a documentary about a sultry Jewish rock star who died too young and a film about an investigation of church sex abuse led by a Jewish newspaper editor won Academy Awards.
NEW YORK (JTA) — It’s the biggest night of the year in Hollywood, so it’s not surprising that Jews are typically well-represented among the annual list of Oscar nominations. But this year, in the absence a major...
(JTA) — “Son of Saul,” the Hungarian Holocaust drama from first-time feature director Laszlo Nemes, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Nemes claimed the prize at the annual Oscar ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — On Sunday evening, Jewish Oscar watchers viewers might keep an eye on two short films vying for the golden trophy in two of the lesser-watched categories.
“Ave Maria” (Hail Mary), from Palestinian filmmaker...
(JTA) — A full-page ad that calls on Oscar nominees to refuse a free Israel trip worth $55,000 offered in their Academy Award swag bags was published in the Los Angeles Times.
The ad, which says “Don’t endorse Israeli apartheid,”...
(JTA) — The entertainment magazine Variety refused to publish an advertisement that says “Don’t endorse Israeli apartheid.”
Jewish Voice for Peace, or JVP, a group that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, announced Monday that the magazine...
