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Close-up of Javier Bardem's political attire at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 15, 2026, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
March 21, 2026, 11:52 am
The Oscars edition: Tribe pride and Israel vilified
After chewing over Hollywood’s big night, ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor weigh in on the newest ‘Superman’ flick and its political overtones
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
A child from the fictional country of Jahranpur waves a makeshift Superman flag during an attack by troops from the fictional country of Boravia, in 'Superman,' the 2025 film by James Gunn. (DC Studios/Warner Bros. via JTA)
July 17, 2025, 2:17 am
Is the new ‘Superman’ movie about the war in Gaza? Viewers clash over political subtext
Director James Gunn says he wrote the screenplay before Oct. 7, but that doesn’t stop anti-Israel audiences from embracing it as a metaphor – and Israel advocates from denying the comparison
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
David Corenswet in 'Superman.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery)
July 9, 2025, 12:53 am
The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing
While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11
By Jordan Hoffman
Comic books are displayed in Gene Yang's home on April 1, 2025, in San Jose, California (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
April 18, 2025, 7:59 pm
As Superman turns 87, scholars reflect on hero’s religious undertones
The Man of Steel, dreamed up by Jewish teens in the 1930s, still inspires a unique reverence around the world that seems to border on the transcendent
By DEEPA BHARATH and BOB SMIETANA
An undated photo shows three editions of the 'Superman' comic book. (AP Photo/ Ed Bailey)
March 15, 2025, 8:34 am
Truth, justice and Yiddishisms: How superhero comics tell the tale of American Jews
Marvel and DC were both started by 2nd-generation Jewish immigrants eager to break comic industry’s glass ceiling, share their families’ stories and punch Hitler right in the kisser
By Miriam Eve Mora
Oversized Superman comic book pages displayed on a fence outside of what was once artist Joe Shuster's boyhood home in Cleveland, Ohio in 2013. (AP/Tony Dejak, File)
April 9, 2024, 8:26 pm
Comic featuring Superman’s first appearance sells for $6M
Auction company selling 1938 rare copy hails edition as ‘most important comic ever published’ for creating superhero still used in comic strips and movies today
By AP
David Corenswet (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images, Daniel Álvasd/ Unsplash; Design by Mollie Suss / via JTA)
August 11, 2023, 5:06 am
David Corenswet, the next Superman, was married by a rabbi and a priest in New Orleans
First Jewish Superman has generations of family ties to city’s historic Temple Sinai
By Gabe Friedman
David Corenswet, left, on Aug. 16, 2022, at the Tudum Theater in Los Angeles, and Rachel Brosnahan right, on June 12, 2023, at the 16th annual Chanel Tribeca Artists Dinner at Balthazar in New York. (Chris Pizzello, left, Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, right)
June 28, 2023, 2:33 pm
The Jewish roots of DC’s newest ‘Superman’
Actor David Corenswet, whose father came from a prominent Jewish family, is set to play the role in the upcoming DC Studios film, alongside Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane
By ToI Staff and AP
A first edition Superman comic from 1939 is placed with copies of the US Constitution and a variety of holy books for use in the swearing-in ceremonies of new US House members, at the Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2023, the opening day of the 118th Congress. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 4, 2023, 12:28 pm
New US lawmaker to swear in on rare Superman comic book
Robert Garcia to pay homage to his immigrant background, having learned English from superhero stories; comic inspired by Jewish writers’ experiences growing up in migrant families
By ToI Staff
Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos)
July 24, 2021, 2:21 am
Was Superman a hidden Jew? Author of new 400-page scholarly tome is certain
Roy Schwartz’s recent, massive ‘Is Superman Circumcised?’ devotes serious thought to what a previous generation of thinkers may have shrugged off as nonsense
By Jordan Hoffman
The glove of Israel Olympic baseball player Jake Roseberg sits on the field at Salt River Fields spring training facility, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Israel has qualified for the six-team baseball tournament at the Tokyo Olympic games which will be its first appearance at the Olympics in any team sport since 1976. (AP Photo/Matt York)
July 22, 2021, 2:38 pm
Daily Briefing July 22 – Will massive Team Israel net 7 medals at Tokyo 2020?
Amy Spiro explains who is going for the gold (or silver or bronze); Jordan Hoffman highlights a new Barry Sonnenfeld musical series and a book convinced that Superman was Jewish
By ToI Staff
Workers raise a five-story replica of a stamp of Superman on the Terminal Tower, Sept. 10, 1998, in Cleveland (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
March 6, 2021, 11:10 am
Vladimir Nabokov’s Superman poem published for 1st time
Poem rejected by the New Yorker in 1942 because ‘many of our readers wouldn’t quite get it’ is printed by the Times Literary Supplement
By ToI Staff
An image from the cover of 'The Joe Shuster Story: The Artist Behind Superman,' by Julian Voloj and illustrated by Thomas Campi. (Super Genius/via JTA)
October 6, 2018, 5:20 am
The tragic tale of Superman’s Jewish creators, told in graphic novel form
‘The Joe Shuster Story’ by Julian Voloj and Thomas Campi portrays the children of Eastern European immigrants and how they nearly attained the wealth they dreamed of
By Gabe Friedman
Jack Garfein delivering a speech in New York, June 7, 2018. (Courtesy of From the Depths)
June 22, 2018, 11:40 pm
Film producer, TV’s Superman honored by Holocaust remembrance group
Jack Garfein became a civil rights activist after immigrating to US; actor Dean Cain recently produced a documentary about the Armenian genocide
By JTA
President Reuven Rivlin speaks at an Israel Press Council gathering in the city of Lod, on March 4, 2018. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)
March 4, 2018, 9:12 pm
Rivlin defends free press amid Netanyahu onslaught
President calls journalism a ‘necessary institution’ of democracy, urges press to emulate his childhood journalist heroes: Jabotinsky and Superman
By Raoul Wootliff
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