With time-honored recipes for such dishes as cholent and brisket relying on intuition and a pinch of this and a dash of that, family culinary traditions tend to get lost — or not nearly as tasty — as one generation yields to the next.
David Krumholtz has a theory about why he\’s played so many charming but zhlubby Jewish guys in film and on television.
If the Holocaust had its millions of unsung victims, it also had thousands of unknown rescuers, of whom some paid with their lives and many others with broken careers and social ostracism.
Doris Roberts, who plays Marie Barone on the popular sitcom \”Everybody Loves Raymond,\” will read the Grace Paley story \”Goodbye and Good Luck\” at a fundraiser for the Jewish Women\’s Theatre Project (JWTP) on April 23.
British actor Ben Kingsley has played a number of Jewish characters with such authenticity that questions frequently pop up about his possible Jewish background.
Around the end of August, every year for the past 20 years, the Chabad Telethon comes around. It gets so you can\’t drive anywhere without seeing the purple banners featuring the silhouette of a man wearing tzitzit and dancing joyously to some unheard song.
Given the great heights of celebrity he has scaled, his 30-year career begs the question: what made Winkler last?
The Anti-Defamation League is not amused by a \”Saturday Night Live\” satire in which cast members, posing as pop stars, said that Jews own all the banks and that Christians have forgiven them for \”killing our Lord.\”
The legendary writer-director-producer was speaking at a program that was part of the Skirball Cultural Center\’s \”Spotlight\” series — which is devoted this season to television.
On Fox\’s breakout comedy, \”That \’70s Show,\” Mila Kunis plays spoiled and sassy Jackie Burkhardt. But, in real life, she\’s very much a child of the \’90s, down to her fascination with the Internet.
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