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News about Jewish and Israeli films, television shows, theater and other celebrity news

Dedi Graucher. Source: Screenshot.

Chassidic singer ‘Dedi’ Graucher dies at age 62

The musician boomed in popularity during the 1990s.

September 18, 2023

Left to right: Emily Schrader, CEO of Social Lite Creative; Ran Natanzon, Head of innovation & Country Branding in the Israeli Foreign Ministry's Public Diplomacy Division; Hooman Khalili (artist); tour guide Ora Hartman; and Foreign Ministry official Dan Oryan. Photo: Dana Daraznin.

Murals commemorating Iranian protest icon unveiled in Israel

"The one country in the Middle East that cares about Iranian women is not Saudi Arabia, not Afghanistan, but Israel,” says Iranian-American artist Hooman Khalili.

Etgar Lefkovits

September 13, 2023

Using art as a backdrop for tattoo art. Credit: Dillon Meyer/Healing Ink.

Documentary: Tattoos can serve as a salve for Israeli war, terror victims

Healing Ink’s CEO says the experience “was so powerful and moving that we knew we had to turn it into something bigger.”

September 5, 2023

Iranian filmmaker Zar Amir Ebrahimi at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, May 22, 2022. Credit: VOA Persian via Wikimedia Commons.

Israeli-Iranian co-production filmed secretly

The filmmakers took steps to avoid arousing Tehran's suspicion while shooting "Tatami" in Georgia.

September 4, 2023

Actress Arleen Sorkin at an event sponsored by the National Breast Cancer Coalition in 2011. Credit: Kathy Hutchins via Wikimedia Commons.

Actress Arleen Sorkin of daytime TV fame dies at 67

While initially making a mark on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” the performer would help create a now iconic comic-book villainess.

August 28, 2023

Mayim Bialik on a visit to Israel in 2018. Credit: Mark Neyman/GPO via Wikimedia Commons.

Amid strike, Mayim Bialik steps down as host of ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’

Ken Jennings will host the show in her stead, as Bialik supports the workers’ strike in Hollywood.

August 28, 2023

A mushroom cloud, the result of the atom bomb the United States exploded over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, to prompt the end of World War II. Credit: Everett Collection/Shutterstock.

The trouble with films that romanticize American Communists

The epic hit “Oppenheimer” and the new documentary “A Compassionate Spy” illustrate the moral blindness of treating Stalinism as a reasonable choice.

Jonathan S. Tobin

August 28, 2023

David Draiman, of the band Disturbed, performs live in Manchester, U.K., on Jan. 16, 2017. Credit: Chris James Ryan Photography/Shutterstock.

Jewish heavy-metal band frontman halts concert to comfort crying girl

David Draiman of the band Disturbed invited the young fan on stage, but she was scared, leading to a touching moment captured on video.

August 24, 2023

Actor Helen Mirren as Golda Meir in the new feature film “Golda,” directed by Guy Nattiv. Source: Screenshot.

Israeli actors make ‘Golda’ film more grounded, authentic, says director Guy Nattiv

Born in Tel Aviv and now living in LA, he spoke with JNS about the film, which is somewhat of “a requiem” for former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as a leader.

August 23, 2023