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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Jewish celebrities

Nathan Fielder speaks onstage during the 2024 Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles Ceremony at the Hollywood Palladium on April 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America West/AFP)
April 30, 2025, 3:06 pm
Nathan Fielder says Paramount+ pulled his TV episode on Holocaust awareness after Oct. 7
In the latest season of ‘The Rehearsal,’ the Jewish comedian reveals that a 2015 segment about his genocide awareness apparel brand Summit Ice was taken down intentionally
By Andrew Lapin
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, in Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the Ode to Joy, on August 28, 2022. It was Tilson Thomas's last concert with the BSO, where he began his career in 1969, as its assistant conductor and pianist. (Hilary Scott/Courtesy Boston Symphony Orchestra via JTA)
April 25, 2025, 9:37 am
Battling cancer, Jewish conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares for his last concert
The scion of Yiddish theater royalty announces a ‘coda’ this weekend to a spectacular career leading orchestras and writing music
By Penny Schwartz
A woman is carried over the crowd at the Lollapalooza concert in Pownal, Vermont, July 9, 1996. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
April 9, 2025, 3:34 am
The surprisingly Jewish history of iconic counter-cultural music festival Lollapalooza
From its creator, to performers, promoters, and now the chroniclers of a new oral history on it, Jews have always had a hand in the traveling show that changed America
By Jordan Hoffman
Adrien Brody in 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crowley/A24)
March 2, 2025, 12:54 am
What’s Jewish about this year’s Academy Awards? Lots of controversy, of course
As Hollywood gears up to give itself its annual pat on the back, there’s a top-notch crop of films to pique The Tribe’s interest – and a healthy dose of off-screen drama, to boot
By Jordan Hoffman
Shira Haas attends the 'Captain America: Brave New World World' premiere at TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, on February 11, 2025. (Jesse Grant / Getty Images via AFP)
February 13, 2025, 1:26 pm
Shira Haas as Sabra can’t shield us from disappointment in new ‘Captain America’ flick
Now in US theaters, Marvel’s 35th movie may just be its worst, while featuring — after no small amount of controversy — the franchise’s first Israeli hero
By Jordan Hoffman
Isaac R. Ohrenstein on one of several international internship experiences, on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. (Courtesy)
December 27, 2024, 4:22 pm
A Harvard student interviewed dozens of Jewish change-makers. Here’s his takeaway
For ‘Voices of Impact,’ podcast host Isaac Ohrenstein speaks with the Jewish world’s most impactful personalities. With mic turned on him for a change, he shares his experiences
By Cathryn J. Prince
Yossi Farro, center, finds himself between Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz, left, and actor Michael Rapaport, while facilitating the donning of tefillin. (Courtesy)
December 24, 2024, 3:54 am
This Chabadnik is on a mission to wrap tefillin for US Jewish celebrities
20-year-old Yossi Farro has facilitated prayer for public figures from Lil Dicky to Bill Ackman, saying they can inspire others to embrace mitzvahs
By Luke Tress
At left: Jean Carroll circa 1955. (via Photofest); Cover of 'First Lady of Laughs' by Grace Kessler Overbeke. (Courtesy: NYU Press)
November 18, 2024, 4:25 am
Before Midge Maisel, there was Jean Carroll, a real-life trailblazing Jewish comedienne
In her new book, ‘First Lady of Laughs,’ scholar Grace Kessler Overbeke shines light on the oft-overlooked performer who created ‘a totally different model of funny Jewish women’
By Rich Tenorio
David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji Kaplan (Kieran Culkin) take a train to Majdanek while on a tour of Poland in 'A Real Pain.' (Courtesy Searchlight Pictures via JTA)
November 6, 2024, 2:51 am
In ‘A Real Pain,’ Jesse Eisenberg connects on- and offscreen with his ancestors’ Poland
Now in theaters, the latest film from the Jewish writer, director and actor features a semi-autobiographical heritage tour full of pathos, banter and fast-paced humor
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Adam Abeshouse in an undated photo. (Abeshouse Productions via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 12:39 am
Adam Abeshouse, decorated Jewish producer for A-list classical musicians, dies at 63 
Triple-Grammy winning violinist worked with roster of A-list musical artists including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Russia’s St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jerry Lewis looks through the camera during filming of 'The Day the Clown Cried,' on March 20, 1972, Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jean Jacques Levy)
August 28, 2024, 12:44 am
Jerry Lewis’s infamously bad Holocaust film is having a moment. But you can’t watch it
Archival material related to ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ the unreleased movie that ended the Jewish funnyman’s career, is now available, with a possible reboot on the horizon
By Andrew Lapin
Brazilian television magnate and TV host Silvio Santos waves on 30 August, 2001, after being held hostage for seven hours in his home in Sao Paulo. (MAURICIO LIMA / AFP)
August 19, 2024, 4:10 pm
Brazilian Jewish entertainment legend Silvio Santos dies at 93
Santos owned the television network SBT and created several variety shows, becoming an icon in Brazil with a decades-long career
By DÉBORA ÁLVARES
Natalie Portman attends the Apple TV+ series premiere of 'Lady in the Lake' at the Museum of Arts and Design on July 11, 2024, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
July 14, 2024, 10:39 am
Natalie Portman talks Jewish role in upcoming TV show
Israeli actress says ‘Lady of the Lake’ project took on a more personal tone as it is set in Baltimore, where her great-grandparents lived
By ToI Staff
In 'Treasure,' father-daughter duo Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry tour Poland, including Auschwitz. (Bleecker Street via JTA)
June 15, 2024, 4:34 pm
Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham take father-daughter trip to Auschwitz in tragicomedy ‘Treasure’
Now in US theaters, the film based on the 2000 novel ‘Too Many Men’ sees two grieving family members take a roots trip to Poland in the post-Soviet 1990s
By Toby Axelrod
Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder are shown in New York City in June 1982. (AP Photo)
March 26, 2024, 3:48 pm
‘Remembering Gene Wilder’ documentary salutes a Jewish comedy legend
Recently opened in NY and LA with a further rollout in the coming weeks, the film examines the comedic actor’s relationship with Mel Brooks – and what set their two styles apart
By Stephen Silver
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