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Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, 100, attends a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the return of death camp deportees, in Paris, France, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
March 31, 2026, 1:31 pm
At 101, Holocaust survivor credits Spielberg for her ongoing fight against hatred
Ginette Kolinka, who survived Auschwitz, stayed silent for decades until Hollywood director’s foundation interviewed her in 1997; now, she shares her story in media and schools
By John Leicester
Bad Bunny accepts the award for best música urbana album for "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on February. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)
February 2, 2026, 10:17 am
Bad Bunny wins album of the year at Grammys as stars protest US immigration crackdown
Puerto Rican artist makes history with first top prize award for Spanish album as artists decry ICE in speeches; The Dalai Lama wins his first Grammy
By Maria Sherman
Steven Spielberg arrives at the 83rd Golden Globes on January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
February 2, 2026, 4:12 am
With a Grammy win, Steven Spielberg’s got his EGOT
Iconic Jewish director and activist adds music prize, won for producing documentary on composer John Williams, to his award haul; 9 of 22 EGOT winners have been Jewish
By ToI Staff
Aaron Lansky speaks at a Yiddish Book Center gala, May 4, 2025. (Susan Magnano/Magnanimous Pictures via JTA)
June 11, 2025, 3:36 am
Aaron Lansky built a home for 1.5 million Yiddish books. Now he’s handing over the keys
While under no illusions that the 1,000-year-old language will be revived outside the Haredi community, the outgoing Yiddish Book Center founder sees it offering new windows into Jewish culture
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Students listen to testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation 'Dimensions in Testimony' project while at 'We Are White Plains,' a Holocaust education exhibit designed by Common Circles, spring 2023 (courtesy)
April 28, 2025, 6:24 pm
Shoah Foundation to collect 10,000 testimonies on antisemitism since Holocaust
Research center, which houses over 61,000 people’s Holocaust stories, will partner with American Jewish Committee to became largest repository of accounts of postwar antisemitism
By Grace Gilson
Steven Spielberg speaks at a ceremony at the University of Southern California, March 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (USC/Sean Dube)
March 26, 2024, 12:15 pm
Spielberg fears repeat of history: ‘We may again have to fight for right to be Jewish’
Filmmaker deplores ‘machinery of extremism’ stirring antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7; Jews can both ‘rage against heinous acts’ by terrorists and decry deaths of Gaza civilians
By JTA and ToI Staff
Alice Walker attends the 'The Color Purple' Broadway Opening Night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on December 10, 2015, in New York City. (Photo by Mark Sagliocco / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
December 27, 2023, 1:21 am
‘Color Purple’ release brings Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism back into focus
Despite the author’s groundbreaking work, her difficult relationship with Israel and Judaism, and outright flirtations with antisemitism, put her at odds with the Jewish community
By Andrew Lapin
Director Steven Spielberg expresses shock at the atrocities of Hamas terrorists against the Jewish people on October 7 in announcing a project to document its horrors (Screenshot: Fox News, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 10, 2023, 11:19 am
Shoah Foundation launches project to document ‘unspeakable barbarity’ of October 7
130 accounts gathered so far from survivors of Hamas massacre to add to collection of Holocaust testimony; founder Steven Spielberg laments: Antisemitism is again ‘standing proud’
By ToI Staff
A screenshot from Netflix's five-part series "Life on Our Planet." (Netflix: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 24, 2023, 9:07 am
Spielberg series depicts life’s dramatic battle of survival on Earth
Producer’s ‘Life on Our Planet’ takes audience through five mass-extinction events, in ‘Game of Thrones’-like drama that sees species fight for dominance
By Andrew MARSZAL
Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.' (©2023 Lucasfilm, all rights reserved)
June 29, 2023, 11:42 pm
In ‘Dial of Destiny,’ Indiana Jones fights Nazis, but this time on his home turf
Director James Mangold’s sequel brings the franchise’s longtime villains closer than ever before — and into Israeli theaters on June 29 and US theaters on June 30
By Matt Goldberg
Brandon Uranowitz, left, as Nathan, and Arty Froushan as Leo. The latter character is a stand-in for Stoppard. (Joan Marcus via JTA)
May 23, 2023, 2:41 am
Spielberg seeking to adapt ‘Leopoldstadt’ Holocaust play for TV
Filmmaker and his production company are shopping idea of limited series based on Tom Stoppard’s play, which would be directed by Stephen Daldry, known for his work on ‘The Crown’
By Gabe Friedman
Former US president Barack Obama, film director Steven Spielberg, and singer Bruce Springsteen join staff at the Amar restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, April 27, 2023. (Instagram screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 29, 2023, 7:55 pm
Obama, Spielberg and Springsteen dazzle Barcelona restaurant
Famous customers, in town for The Boss’s concert, enjoy seafood meal before posing with staff for photo
By Michael Horovitz
Gal Gadot hosted Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz at her LA home for a Zikaron Basalon event on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 18, 2023 (Courtesy Tori, DMWA)
April 20, 2023, 7:41 am
Gal Gadot hosts Holocaust survivor for remembrance event in her LA home
Celina Biniaz, the youngest female survivor rescued by Oskar Schindler, speaks to Hollywood A-listers
By Jessica Steinberg
Steven Spielberg arrives at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 12, 2023. (John Locher/AP)
March 13, 2023, 1:44 pm
Spielberg’s personal movie ‘Fabelmans’ flops at the Oscars, despite 7 nominations
Dramatization of his upbringing loses out to multiverse ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’; Jewish producer of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ sees movie take home four honors
By Andrew Lapin
(From L) The cast and crew of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jonathan Wang, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Daniel Kwan (bottom L), and Daniel Scheinert (bottom R), pose with their Oscar trophies in the press room during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023. "Everything Everywhere All At Once" producers Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP)
March 13, 2023, 7:03 am
‘Everything, everywhere’ all over the Oscars, winning Best Picture, 6 more
Quirky multiverse flick feted for directing, acting; Brendon Fraser wins for ‘Whale’ portrayal, but Spielberg’s ‘Fabelmans’ falls short amid guffaws over last year’s on-stage slap
By Jake Coyle
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