Celebrity Jews
Carole King up for R&R Hall of Fame; Azealia Banks is (not) a Jew; etc.
An unusual ‘best performance’ When the New York Times released its ”Best Performances of 2020” list, scenes from two Netflix hits, “Mank” and “Ozark,”…
Celebrity Jews
Spielberg wins Genesis Prize; Golden Globes, Image Awards nominees; etc.
Spielberg wins the big prize Steven Spielberg has beat out notables such as Barbra Streisand and the Bay Area’s own Marc Benioff to win this year’s…
Culture
Image Awards: Jewish nominees, from Daveed Diggs to Doja Cat
Several Jewish stars are among the nominees for the 2021 NAACP Image Awards, which celebrate Black achievement in movies, television, music and…
Music
Flory Jagoda, champion of Sephardic music, dies at 97
Flory Jagoda, the Bosnian-born Holocaust survivor who became a champion of Ladino and Sephardic music after immigrating to the United States, has died.…
Music
Phil Spector, rock legend and murderer, dies at 81 in California prison
Phil Spector, the massively influential rock composer and producer who murdered a woman and spent his declining years in jail, died at 81. Spector died…
Celebrity Jews
A big honor for Shira Haas; Ed Asner is still working; etc.
Rockin’ in the new year What did you do on New Year’s Eve? Celebs were working, or some of them were. Paula Abdul and Doja Cat performed on “Dick Clark’s…
The Sit-Down
Hasidic rapper Nissim Black on his creative process and Covid recovery
Nissim Black is passionately, assuredly, confidently in love with God. Not in love with Judaism, though he’s fastidious in prayer and observance. Not in…
Celebrity Jews
David Cronenberg does Star Trek; Hallmark does Hanukkah; etc.
It’s beginning to look a lot like … that other holiday For anyone who has felt bad that Jews haven’t been included in cheesy holiday rom-com marathons,…
Music
Daveed Diggs on representing Jews of color in his new Hanukkah video
Daveed Diggs hadn’t planned to write a Hanukkah song. And when Disney first approached him and his rap group, Clippings, about writing one, his original…