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Gal Gadot

Gal Gadot
Posted inIsrael

Gal Gadot wins Genesis Prize for her ‘defense of Israel’ as Gaza war divides Hollywood

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov November 11, 2025November 11, 2025

(JTA) —Actor Gal Gadot has won the Genesis Prize, sometimes called the “Jewish Nobel,” for supporting Israel even as backlash against the country’s actions in Gaza rocked Hollywood. Since Oct. […]

Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in "Dune."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Timothée Chalamet goes to space; Zoë Kravitz goes to Gotham; The Jews go to the ‘Jewish Nobels’

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 27, 2021
Drake wearing an oversized leather, shearling-lined coat on a balcony overlooking a busy city street
Posted inCelebrity Jews

No Eurovision win for Israel; Drake upstaged by toddler; Dylan turns 80; Judge Judy retires; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 25, 2021May 25, 2021
Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal star in "Here Today."
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish, buddies on screen and off; A third girl for Gadot; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 28, 2021April 28, 2021
Three partisans in the Vilna ghetto, from left: Rozka Korczak, Abba Kovner and Vitka Kempner.
Posted inLocal Voice

Yom HaShoah and the strength of our ‘Wonder Women’ 

by Yedida Kanfer April 6, 2021April 6, 2021
Israeli actress Gal Gadot
Posted inUncategorized, Film

A third ‘Wonder Woman’ with Gal Gadot already in the works

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA December 29, 2020June 4, 2021
Jennifer Rosenberg of Walnut Creek on the set of “Jeopardy!” Her episode aired on Nov. 24, 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Jeopardy Productions)
Posted inTV & Film

Walnut Creek lawyer tests her mettle on ‘Jeopardy!’ in one of Alex Trebek’s last episodes

by Sue Fishkoff December 1, 2020December 1, 2020
President Donald Trump during a break in an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, Oct. 15, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Brendan Smialowski-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

State propositions, for and against; Trump, for and against; Bad mask-wearing on our cover; etc.

by J. Readers October 30, 2020
Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 1963 film on the Egyptian queen. (Photo/JTA-Universal History Archive-Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Posted inFilm

Decades before Gal Gadot, Elizabeth Taylor fell into controversy playing Cleopatra as a Jewish actress

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2020
Poet Louise Glück, seen here at the National Book Awards in New York City in 2014, is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Photo/JTA-Robin Marchant-Getty Images)
Posted inPoetry

WNBA’s Jewish Bird; Gadot as Cleopatra causes a flap; stars get naked for democracy; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

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