Long-awaited film \”Star Wars: The Force Awakens\” pulled in a record $57 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters in its debut on Thursday night, boosting its global ticket sales total to nearly $130 million in two days, Walt Disney Co said on Friday.
Supermodel Bar Refaeli was reportedly questioned for 12 hours by authorities under suspicion of failing to pay millions of shekels in taxes.
At this fraught moment in history, a cartoonist named Riad Sattouf has achieved best-seller status in France with a memoir in the form of a comic book with the provocative title, “The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984.”
An Australian Jewish group has criticized author Camille Paglia for referring to Taylor Swift as an “obnoxious Nazi Barbie.”
Jewish porn star James Deen denied all of the nine sexual assault allegations leveled against him.
The Catskill Mountains are, of course, a fact of geology located northwest of New York City.
\”You Gotta Love the Life” is the title track of Melissa Manchester’s latest album and a kind of personal and spiritual mantra.
“For a German Jew, Yiddish is beneath contempt,” musicologist Michael Ochs told JTA. “German Jews tend to think of Yiddish as bad German. The only use we had in our family for it was to make fun of it.”
The 1987 hit film “Dirty Dancing” will be adapted into a TV musical.
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