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Barbra Streisand

Comedian Rob Reiner speaks at a ceremony honoring fellow actor Billy Crystal, April 12, 2019. at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. (Robyn Beck/AFP)
December 19, 2025, 5:16 am
In recorded Hanukkah video, Reiner urges Holocaust survivors to be resilient in scary times
Clip of Jewish actor, recorded two months before his murder, aired as part of virtual ceremony featuring candle-lighting at Western Wall
By AP and ToI Staff
Honorees Alan, left, and Marilyn Bergman arrive at the ASCAP Film and Television music awards in Beverly Hills, California, May 6, 2008. (Matt Sayles/AP)
July 22, 2025, 10:07 am
Alan Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist and ‘father figure’ to Barbra Streisand, dies at 99 
Brooklyn Jewish songwriter, together with his wife Marilyn, was behind some of Streisand’s most famous hits and the film ‘Yentl’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance block at the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens, New York, has graves going back to the early 1900s. Visitors to the cemetery can take a self-guided audio tour to learn more about the history there. (Cathryn J. Prince)
April 12, 2025, 1:23 am
Sages, celebrities, veterans, crooks: Take a NY cemetery’s Jewish walks of fame – and infamy
Mount Hebron Cemetery in Queens was founded in 1903 and holds over 231,000 graves. Its Legacy Foundation offers audio tours teaching visitors about the contributions of those interred
By Cathryn J. Prince
Barbra Streisand accepts the life achievement award during the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
April 18, 2024, 6:47 pm
Barbra Streisand to release new song in response to rising antisemitism in the world
Jewish singer and actress says the single, which will be used as the end title for a new series on the Holocaust, will show ‘that even in the darkest of times, love can triumph’
By ToI Staff
Actor Jamie Lee Curtis reads a page from her children's book during remarks at the Claims Conference's virtual event, December 11, 2023. (Screen capture)
December 12, 2023, 11:58 am
Holocaust, Hamas war take center stage at star-studded virtual Claims Conference event
Germany’s Scholz tells Hanukkah gathering for survivors he’s pained by surge in antisemitism; Jamie Lee Curtis, Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal among Hollywood A-listers to appear
By jacob gurvis
Singer Tzvika Pick, who died in August 2022, is remembered in 'Days of Pick,' a documentary being screened during Jewish Film Week, December 9-14, 2023 (Courtesy)
December 1, 2023, 2:16 pm
Jerusalem’s Jewish Film Week going ahead, adjusted for war
The Jerusalem Cinematheque’s annual Hannukah-period film festival marks its 25th year; free admission for evacuees from southern and northern communities
By Jessica Steinberg
Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. ( Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 2, 2023, 10:42 am
Barbra Streisand to get the ‘Jewish Nobel’
Star will donate $1 million Genesis Prize award to groups protecting environment, promoting women’s health, combating disinformation, aiding people of Ukraine
By Jackie Hajdenberg
File: Barbra Streisand presents the award for best musical at the Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2016. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
February 8, 2023, 11:36 am
Long-awaited Streisand memoir ‘My Name is Barbra’ coming this year
Publisher says book, teased for decades, runs to over 1,000 pages; it discusses her early struggles, album recordings, making of ‘Yentl,’ political activism, friends and family
By Hillel Italie
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on the platform left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, on the platform right, inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the Pariser Platz in central Berlin, Germany, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 20, 2022, 2:55 pm
Holocaust survivors to celebrate Hanukkah by spreading message of hope worldwide
Virtual event will highlight survivors from across the globe, including some recently evacuated from war-torn Ukraine; ceremony to feature Herzog, Scholtz, Barbra Streisand
By Kirsten Grieshaber
FILE - Lea Michele arrives at the 75th annual Tony Awards in New York on June 12, 2022. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
September 12, 2022, 9:29 am
Lea Michele to miss ‘Funny Girl’ performances after catching COVID
Jewish actress due back September 20 to star in musical about New York Jewish girl who went from burlesque to Broadway stages in the 1920s
By Mark Kennedy
Honorees Alan (left) and Marilyn Bergman arrive at the ASCAP Film and Television music awards in Beverly Hills, CA, on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
January 8, 2022, 11:04 pm
Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning lyricist, dies at age 93
Along with husband Alan, the Jewish Brooklynite was behind ‘The Way We Were,’ ‘How Do You Keep the Music Playing?’ and hundreds of other songs
By Hillel Italie
Barbra Streisand speaks onstage during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
August 23, 2021, 7:48 am
Barbra Streisand makes history with latest top 20 album
New release, featuring archival recordings and duets with Willie Nelson and Kermit, makes her 1st woman with album in Billboard top 20 in every decade from the 1960s to the 2020s
By Ben Sales
Israeli actress Shira Haas receives the prize for Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Ophir Awards, sometimes called the Israeli Oscars, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 6, 2018. (Flash90)
June 27, 2021, 2:38 pm
Haas recalls excitement when Streisand offered her part of Golda
Award-winning Israeli actress will portray Israel’s only female prime minister in the upcoming TV series ‘Lioness’ produced by Hollywood icon
By ToI Staff and JTA
Illustrative: A luxury mikveh (ritual bath) for women, in the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut on August 25, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)
March 2, 2021, 2:09 pm
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Shira Haas arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'The Zookeeper's Wife' at The ArcLight Hollywood on March 27, 2017. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
March 2, 2021, 4:42 am
Shira Haas to play Golda Meir in American TV series
‘Lioness,’ a Barbra Streisand-produced series, will follow Meir from birth in Kiev, her youth in Milwaukee, to becoming Israel’s first and only woman prime minister
By Gabe Friedman
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