Celebrity Jews 'Black Widow' rakes it in; Baseball gets even Jewish-er; etc. So much baseball news! From zero Orthodox Jews, Major League Baseball now has not one but two in the pipeline! The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Long… By Maya Mirsky Jul 20, 2021
Celebrity Jews Keitel does Lansky; Jurnee joins the Academy; etc. A gangster and a Jew Harvey Keitel, 82, is taking on the role of gangster Meyer Lansky, the “mob’s accountant” who oversaw and ran crime rackets from… By Maya Mirsky Jul 7, 2021
Film 'Kaddish for Bernie Madoff': Avant-garde film says a unique farewell When Alicia Jo Rabins wrote “A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff,” she had no idea it would come out the year Madoff actually died. “Wow. It’s an odd experience… By Mira Fox, Forward Jul 6, 2021
Music Sunnyvale sabra scores another pandemic YouTube hit As the one-year anniversary of school closures in California approached a few months ago, Sunnyvale singer-songwriter and mother of four Ifat Orgad… By Andrew Esensten Jun 30, 2021
Music At Graceland, grave marker honors Elvis' complicated Jewish heritage The large crate sat unopened in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse here for more than four decades, concealing a little-known fact about one of America’s… By Dan Fellner, JTA Jun 28, 2021
Celebrity Jews Orthodox mom 'Ninja Warrior'; Jake Gyllenhaal grilled by children; etc. Frum and tough There are moms, and then there are … ninja moms. Liba Yoffe, a 35-year-old Orthodox mother of four, is one of this year’s competitors on… By Maya Mirsky Jun 21, 2021
Art Palo Alto JCC unveils ‘mind-blowing’ musical sculpture As visitors return to the reopened Oshman Family JCC in Palo Alto, they will be greeted by a new four-story art installation by renowned local sculptor… By Andrew Esensten Jun 16, 2021
Celebrity Jews Shatner on Nimoy; Jamie Lee Curtis rebuilds Hungarian shul; etc. Captain Kirk and his old pal Spock In a recent interview with the Guardian, William Shatner opened up about his friendship with the late Leonard Nimoy,… By Maya Mirsky Jun 8, 2021
Act Two I’m tired of singing alone. Bring on the whole-iness of choirs! After more than a year of singing all by myself — muted during Zoom rehearsals or recording in solitude for virtual choral pieces — my world is opening up… By Janet Silver Ghent Jun 7, 2021