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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

Jana Banin

Canadian Jewish rapper Drake remembers his bar mitzva -- 'as if it was yesterday' in this hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch. (YouTube screenshot)
September 26, 2014, 5:21 am
SNL’s all-time top 10 Jewish moments
Currently celebrating its 40th season, the archetypical sketch comedy show’s parodies of Jews are not to be missed
By Jana Banin
Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, in Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet." (Courtesy of RKO Pictures)
February 5, 2014, 2:03 am
‘Hoffman had biggest, brokenest heart’
Talented actor who passed away was ‘a beautiful person in a hideous world,’ says creator of series in which he was to star
By Jana Banin
Donald Duck under Nazi rule in Disney short. (screen capture: YouTube)
January 10, 2014, 12:38 am
Streep: Disney was an anti-Semite
At awards gala, Academy award-winning actress denounces media mogul as ‘gender bigot’ and supporter of anti-Jewish lobbying groups
By Jana Banin
Simon Cowell and Lauren Silverman (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube/File)
November 19, 2013, 2:28 am
Simon Cowell reportedly mulling Jewish conversion
Music mogul plans a ‘secret’ trip to Israel, ahead of possible marriage to Jewish girlfriend, reports British tabloid
By Jana Banin and Lazar Berman
Miley Cyrus (photo credit: YouTube)
October 11, 2013, 5:26 pm
Miley Cyrus vs. 70-year-old Jewish men
I know better than those old guys behind their desks what people want to hear in the clubs, says bare-all pop star
By Jana Banin
A scene from the ABC show 'The Goldbergs,' starring Jeff Garlin, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and George Segal. (photo credit: ABC/Eric McCandless)
October 2, 2013, 11:16 am
TV-land waxes nostalgic with the new ‘Goldbergs’
Not a remake of the 1949 classic, this ABC sitcom airing Wednesday nights portrays an average American family — that happens to be Jewish
By Jana Banin
One Direction star Harry Styles had his older sister's name -- Gemma -- tattooed in Hebrew. (photo credit: Tumblr/Harry Styles Tattoo)
August 28, 2013, 5:56 am
One Direction star wears a kippah
British heartthrob Harry Styles makes appearance at kosher eatery in Manhattan
By Jana Banin
For his next trick, Adrien Brody will depict Harry Houdini, also known as Hungarian-born Erik Weisz. (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)
August 23, 2013, 3:44 am
Adrien Brody to play Houdini
Actor who won an Oscar portraying a Holocaust survivor in ‘The Pianist’ turns his attention to another Jewish performer
By Jana Banin
'Princesses: Long Island' was basically a 'Real Housewives' franchise with Manischewitz. (Bravo via JTA)
August 18, 2013, 7:20 am
TV’s Jewish ‘Princesses’ should be throne out
US cable reality series did little but create and reinforce negative stereotypes
By Jana Banin
A still shot from 'World War Z'
July 6, 2013, 5:30 pm
What ‘World War Z’ says about Israel
Some see the film as a pro-Israel statement, justifying the existence of a wall in the real-life, non-zombie-ridden West Bank
By Jana Banin
The princesses in action. (courtesy: Bravo)
June 1, 2013, 2:08 pm
Jewish princesses go wild on cable
Even with the acronym ‘JAP’ missing from the reality show title, it’s clear the main characters aren’t the kind of royalty Disney would endorse
By Jana Banin
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