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Steven Spielberg reportedly working on Walter Cronkite feature
Jewish Journal
June 15, 2016
Award-winning director Steven Spielberg reportedly is working on a feature project about the late veteran newscaster Walter Cronkite and his role in turning American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
Steven Spielberg’s commencement speech at Harvard University
Jewish Journal
May 27, 2016
Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul Choi, thank you so much.
Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg return for new ‘Indiana Jones’ film
Jewish Journal
March 15, 2016
Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg will return for a fifth installment of action-adventure franchise \”Indiana Jones\” due for release in July 2019, Walt Disney Co said Tuesday.
Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton? Who Jewish celebrities are backing
Jewish Journal
February 1, 2016
The entertainment industry famously, or infamously, depending on your perspective, leans Democratic.
How the Chabad rebbe helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories
Jewish Journal
November 25, 2015
Barack Obama got a big laugh at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday when he pretended not to know Barbra Streisand was Jewish.
Moving and shaking: The Israeli Philharmonic, Beit Issie Shapiro and more
Ryan Torok
November 19, 2015
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performed at a Nov. 10 concert gala that raised more than $1.6 million for education programs in Israel and Los Angeles.
Spielberg and Streisand on list of 17 to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2015
Jewish celebrities Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim and Itzhak Perlman will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given by the United States.
Moving and shaking
Ryan Torok
August 13, 2014
American Friends of The Hebrew University (AFHU) has promoted Sheri Kaufer, 54, to the position of executive director of its Los Angeles region.
Moving and Shaking: Obama at Shoah Foundation, Righteous Among the Nations Award given
Ryan Torok
May 15, 2014
Recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, President Barack Obama urged nations to fight growing anti-Semitism and threats against Israel in his remarks on May 7 to 1,200 supporters of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.
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