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Helen Mirren onstage at the screening of 'Golda' at the opening night of the Jerusalem's Film Festival, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 14, 2024, 8:45 pm
Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber among stars condemning calls for Israel Eurovision ban
400 signatories to letter organized by Creative Community for Peace say they’re shocked by efforts to ban Israel ‘for responding to greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust’
By Amy Spiro
Actress Helen Mirren and co-star Lior Ashkenazi attend a press conference for the upcoming film 'Golda,' about prime minister Golda Meir, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2023, 2:50 pm
In Jerusalem, Helen Mirren says Golda Meir ‘one of the greatest’ roles she’s played
Ahead of ‘Golda’ premiere at Jerusalem Film Festival, UK actress says she is ‘moved and excited’ to see mass pro-democracy rallies in Israel, recalls her time on a kibbutz in 1967
By Amy Spiro
Actor Liev Schreiber arrives for the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
April 19, 2022, 3:11 am
Liev Schreiber to play Anne Frank’s dad in new Disney+ series
‘A Small Light’ will follow Miep Gies, Otto Frank’s non-Jewish Dutch employee, who together with her husband hid the Frank family in secret annex for two years to evade the Nazis
By Andrew Lapin
Liev Schreiber (center) receiving a gift from Tel Aviv University president Joseph Klafter (right) and Raz Joseph, who heads the university's film and television school (Courtesy Yisrael Hadari)
February 6, 2018, 5:24 pm
Don’t be narcissistic, Liev Schreiber advises Israeli film students
‘Ray Donovan’ star gives master class at Tel Aviv University student film festival, said he was always told he was part of the chosen people
By Jessica Steinberg
Matthew Bielski served in the IDF from 2005-2007 and fought in the 2006 Lebanon war. (Courtesy)
November 8, 2017, 11:07 am
Grandson of famous Jewish WWII partisans makes resistance meaningful today
Raised in a family of modern day Maccabees who saved 1,200 Jews from the Holocaust, Matthew Bielski keeps their legacy alive to inspire others not to be afraid
By Cathryn J. Prince
Top left, clockwise, Emmy Awards nominees Carrie Fisher, Vanessa Bayer, Mandy Patinkin and Tracee Ellis Ross (Getty Images via JTA)
July 14, 2017, 4:09 am
The 2017 Emmys have so many Jewish nominees
Among the picks for the television award are the late Carrie Fisher, Vanessa Bayer, Mandy Patinkin and Tracee Ellis Ross
By Josefin Dolsten
Off-screen, Liev Schreiber has trained as a boxer for 18 years. (Sarah Shatz/Courtesy of IFC Films/via JTA)
May 5, 2017, 6:25 pm
How his Jewish grandpa inspired Liev Schreiber
Classically trained star says he dreams about his ancestor as he plays a palooka who gets his shot at a title in new film ‘Chuck,’ opening Friday in the US
By Curt Schleier
Top left, clockwise: Rachel Bloom, Jeffrey Tambor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonah Hill (Bloom, Tambor photos: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for The Critics’ Choice Awards/JTA; Louis-Dreyfus photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/JTA; Hill photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/JTA)
December 13, 2016, 6:43 am
Golden Globes 2017: Meet the Jewish nominees
From Portman to Ryder, Hill to Tambor, here are those celebrities of the tribe who may be honored by Hollywood’s Foreign Press Association
By Josefin Dolsten
Actress Sofia Vergara and actor Byung-hun Lee present the award for Foreign Language film, Son of Saul, to director Laszlo Nemes (R) on stage at the 88th Oscars on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California (AFP PHOTO / MARK RALSTON)
February 29, 2016, 6:38 am
‘Son of Saul’ wins Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
Hungarian Holocaust tale was favorite to win after taking Golden Globe, Grand Prix at Cannes; Amy Winehouse portrait awarded best documentary accolades
By JTA, AP and ToI Staff
Jennifer Jason Leigh speaking at a press conference for “The Hateful Eight” at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Dec. 14, 2015. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The Weinstein Company, via JTA)
February 27, 2016, 5:21 pm
5 incredible Jewish stories behind this year’s Oscars
From Jennifer Jason Leigh’s ‘Hateful Eight’ comeback to ‘Room’ director Lenny Abrahamson and ‘Son of Saul’ star Geza Rohrig, Sunday’s ceremony is set to be quite a kosher affair
By JTA
'Rabin, the Last Day,' Amos Gitai's latest movie examining the final moments of Yitzhak Rabin's life, also includes a look at the Shamgar Commission that investigated his assassination (Photo credit: Alon Ron)
September 16, 2015, 2:25 pm
From Gitai’s J’accuse to Schreiber’s hero, ‘chosen’ films in Toronto
At the 40th annual international film festival, a fiery denunciation of Israel’s PM as ‘art,’ a disappointing Jake Gyllenhaal, and an off-beat Israeli documentary
By Jordan Hoffman
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are shocked to discover that they're no longer kids in Noah Baumbach's Toronto International Film Festival debut 'While We're Young.' (courtesy)
September 12, 2014, 7:37 pm
In Toronto, Jews’ movie debuts earn good reviews
With only a few shandas, the 39th International Film Festival did well by members of the tribe
By Jordan Hoffman
Luzer Twersky, right, consulted on and plays a Hasidic character in the forthcoming film 'Felix and Meira.' (Julie Landreville/JTA)
August 19, 2014, 3:52 pm
Hasidic consultants help Hollywood get it right
In a very niche occupation, mavens dispel misconceptions and advise on language, costuming and plot
By Miriam Moster
Liev Schreiber discusses 'Ray Donovan' (YouTube screenshot)
July 16, 2014, 12:00 pm
Liev Schreiber describes favorite role — father
The actor balances fatherhood and ‘Ray Donovan,’ which he is also directing this season
By Ryan Pearson
Illustrative: Aron Bell, the last surviving Bielski brother, with fellow partisan Leah Johnson and her grandson Rabbi Zev Johnson at a Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation tribute dinner in New York City. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand)
October 30, 2013, 4:58 pm
Third generation is new focus of partisan education
The last surviving Bielski brother admonishes partisan grandchildren this week to support Israel, saying, ‘If they don’t, some day they will pay for it’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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