Sid Caesar, who died yesterday at the age of 91, was a genius, a comedy legend, a gifted and sensitive performer who has probably influenced everyone working in comedy today.
A letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed by 152 Jewish Americans, including top centrist leaders, praised the peace efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Several government ministers were among thousands who marched in support of settlement building in a corridor connecting eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Israeli Olympic figure skaters won’t be bringing home any medals from Sochi this winter, but Israelis are still shepping naches from their performances.
Move over Jesus Christ, Sarah Silverman has a new man in her life.
A new Facebook page called on the Rolling Stones to boycott Israel.
Sid Caesar, the Jewish comedian who helped pave the way for American comedy as we know it today, died Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home after a brief illness, Variety reports.
In the course of a few short days last month, billionaire philanthropist Stewart Rahr spent half a million dollars to bring Holocaust survivors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in Poland; then he flew on to Israel, where he doubled the size of a fleet of emergency medical response vehicles, connected with a charity that helps Jewish and Arab special-needs children and another that feeds Israel’s poor; held back-to-back meetings with other charities and politicians anxious for a chance to interest the fast-moving Rahr’s generous fancy and capped it all off with a private meeting with President Shimon Peres.\n
U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have had rough public relationships with religious leaders.
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