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A logo is displayed at the PEN America Literary Awards on Thursday, March 2, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
April 14, 2024, 6:57 pm
9 authors refuse nominations for PEN awards, citing US group’s stance on war in Gaza
Critics say literary organization has not sufficiently condemned Israeli war on Hamas; PEN counters that it set up $100,000 emergency fund for Palestinian writers
By Hillel Italie
Beanie Feldstein as 'Fanny Brice' during the opening night curtain call for the musical 'Funny Girl' on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre in New York City, April 24, 2022. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage via JTA)
May 11, 2022, 8:08 am
‘Funny Girl’ snubbed in Tony nominations, other Jewish shows fare better
Beanie Feldstein’s musical revival of Barbra Streisand role gets only one mention; ‘Lehman’ stock rises with eight nominations and ‘Girl from the North Country’ gets seven
By Andrew Lapin
Director Steven Spielberg speaks at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 9, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images via JTA)
March 11, 2021, 9:25 am
Steven Spielberg writing movie based on his own childhood
Tony Kushner collaborating with director on script; filmmaker has in the past talked of anti-Semitism he faced as teenager in Arizona
By Gabe Friedman
Rita Moreno won an Oscar for her portrayal of Anita in the original 'West Side Story.' (courtesy)
February 1, 2018, 2:38 pm
Something’s coming: Spielberg and Kushner to take on ‘West Side Story’ remake
Amid controversy, a bunch of Jewish creatives to reboot the iconic American immigrant tale about the tragic consequences of culture clash and assimilation
By Jordan Hoffman
Clockwise from top left: Fran Drescher (Wikimedia Commons), Larry Kramer (Courtesy of HBO), Rabbi Steven Greenberg in 2014 (Wikimedia Commons), Jazz Jennings (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Trevor Project)
June 28, 2016, 9:19 am
9 Jewish LGBTQ activists you should know
From Stonewall to the US Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, Jews have been at the forefront of the fight for equal rights. Here are some of the most influential voices still making a difference
By Gabe Friedman
Playwright Tony Kushner attends the 'Mike Nichols: American Masters' world premiere at The Paley Center for Media on January 11, 2016 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via JTA)
May 12, 2016, 10:21 am
Playwright Kushner accuses Toronto federation of ‘McCarthyism’
Award-winning Jewish writer slams organization after it distances itself over his ties to group that supports Israel boycott
By JTA
US film director Steven Spielberg arrives for a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Krakow, Poland last January. (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)
April 14, 2016, 9:46 pm
Spielberg to direct film about Jewish boy stolen from family
Script is based on 1997 book about 19th-century family that went up against pope to regain their son after he was secretly baptized
By JTA
Playwright Tony Kushner attends the 'Mike Nichols: American Masters' world premiere at The Paley Center for Media on January 11, 2016 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via JTA)
March 23, 2016, 11:08 pm
Citing guest’s BDS ties, Toronto Jewish group drops cultural event
Organization says that while playwright Tony Kushner publicly opposed boycott, he is on board of Jewish Voice for Peace, which supports it
By JTA
Detail from the Museum of the City of New York poster for its Yiddish theater exhibition (Cathryn J. Prince /Times of Israel)
March 11, 2016, 1:54 pm
When Yiddish theater gave Broadway a run for its gelt
Long before ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ revivals, from the late 19th century to the 1940s, New York was the cultural center for Yiddish-language plays
By Cathryn J. Prince
'Bridge of Spies' director Steven Spielberg (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
January 10, 2013, 11:05 pm
Jewish filmmakers rack up Oscar nominations
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ leads the way with 12 nods
By ToI Staff
Matthew Ackerman
April 3, 2012, 4:25 pm
Matthew Ackerman
Who cares about Peter Beinart?
How is it that Beinart is able to command the attention of so many Jewish thinkers with much more important uses for their time? His biography, of course
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