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Hollywood

Promotional image from "The Last Face" film
Posted inOpinion

Hollywood’s boycott of Israeli filmmakers is an act of spectacular self-sabotage

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman September 16, 2025September 16, 2025

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Emma Stone and Javier Bardem think that, by pledging […]

(L-R) Ilana Glazer, Gael Garcia Bernal and Ayo Edebiri
Posted inFilm

1,200 Hollywood stars pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions

by Andrew Lapin September 9, 2025September 9, 2025
A view of the topographical map inside the "Hollywoodland" exhibit. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
Posted inOpinion

How I helped bring the story of Hollywood’s Jewish founders to the Academy Museum — where it belongs

Sharon Rosen Leib by Sharon Rosen Leib June 13, 2024June 13, 2024
The new "Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital" exhibit opens Sunday at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo/JTA-Josh White, JWPictures-Academy Museum Foundation)
Posted inCulture

L.A.’s Academy Museum initially excluded Hollywood’s Jewish origins. A new exhibit on Jewish film pioneers fixes that.

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis May 17, 2024May 21, 2024
From left to right: Variety contributor Malina Saval, Alex Edelman, Ike Barinholtz, Marc Maron and Tiffany Haddish speak onstage during the Variety Hollywood & Antisemitism Summit in West Hollywood, California, Oct. 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Araya Doheny-Variety via Getty Images)
Posted inTV & Film

Variety’s star-studded Hollywood summit on antisemitism takes a turn amid war in Israel

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis October 20, 2023October 20, 2023
Marnina Schon, a Berkeley-born member of SAG-AFTRA, picketing outside Netflix's Los Angeles office on July 26, 2023. (Photo/Darnell M. Johnson)
Posted inCalifornia

‘There’s no giving up’: Jewish voices from the Hollywood strikes

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and Dan Pine July 26, 2023July 31, 2023
Todd Shotz (right) with actor Rhea Perlman during the filming of "You People." (Photo/Courtesy Shotz)
Posted inTV & Film

The Judaism consultant for Netflix’s ‘You People’ talks about that Yom Kippur scene

Erin Ben-Moche and Esther D. Kustanowitz by The Bagels February 3, 2023February 6, 2023
The Academy of Motion Pictures Museum in Los Angeles (Photo/Courtesy)
Posted inCalifornia

After excluding Jews, Academy of Motion Pictures museum changes course

Sharon Rosen Leib by Sharon Rosen Leib and Forward January 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Mel Gibson, unrepentant antisemite. (Photo/Forward-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

The prickly reason Mel Gibson will never be cancelled

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward December 9, 2021
Patti Lupone as Avis Amberg in “Hollywood/” (Photo/Saeed Adyani-Netflix)
Posted inTV & Film

In alternate history of ‘Hollywood,’ diverse characters get to act out their ambitions

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz May 26, 2020May 26, 2020

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