Jack Perez makes clothes for Jewish soldiers. In a way, Mel Gibson is to blame. In 2011, a few years after spouting that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” during a DUI arrest, the filmmaker announced that he was making a biopic of one of our most celebrated warriors, Judah Maccabee….
The spirit of the 1960s, with all its countercultural passion, ecstatic practices and transcendental yearnings, touched American Judaism most of all through the Jewish Renewal movement, which sought to reclaim the religion’s mystical traditions. Throughout the life of its charismatic founder, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Renewal’s adherents and admirers wondered how organized and structured it should…
She may be an Academy Award-winning actress and many men’s dream Jewish woman. But she is also a new mother, and like all new moms, Natalie Portman, wants to show off her baby to friends and family. That is just what Portman did last week on a trip to Israel. Ynet reports that the actress…
Vanity Fair interviews comedian David Wain for the 10th anniversary of his cult comedy “Wet Hot American Summer.” The Smurfs have been said to be misogynist and anti-Semitic, but the screenwriter of the upcoming Smurfs movie is David Weiss, an Orthodox Jew. Natalie Portman named her child “Aleph.” Good grief. A new book looks back…
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